UEFA Cup bye buoys Spurs’ trophy hopes

TOTTENHAM moved a step closer to this year’s UEFA Cup final in Glasgow following the decision to give them a bye into the last 16 of the competition.

Spurs were due to play Feyenoord on February 15 but the Dutch club were kicked out of the tournament following crowd trouble earlier in the season against French side Nancy.

Subject to a possible appeal by Feyenoord to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Martin Jol’s men will face Braga or Parma for a place in the quarter-finals of Europe’s second-tier competition.