Hot Spurs make Curbishley squirm

IRRITATED with the officious behaviour of one Tottenham steward, the West Ham fans chanted: “You’re getting sacked in the morning.”

After three 4-0 defeats in nine days, their manager Alan Curbishley must be wondering whether he, too, will soon be out of work. Tottenham followed the example of Chelsea and Liverpool by humiliating West Ham, but the scoreline alone cannot begin to describe just how poor the visitors were.

Two goals down inside 11 minutes to headers from Dimitar Berbatov — both from Tom Huddlestone’s precise free-kicks — Curbishley’s timid team were reduced to 10 men when the stroppy Luis Boa Morte was sent off for a second yellow card just before half-time.