Hapless Gomes sabotages Spurs

DAMIEN COMOLLI may be long gone from Tottenham Hotspur, but it appears he has had his revenge by leaving the north Londoners with Heurelho Gomes.

The Brazilian goalkeeper was snapped up from PSV Eindhoven for a princely £8m in the summer but on his recent form, Spurs would be lucky to realise a tenth of that sum in the January transfer window.

Gomes is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most clownish goalkeeping imports the Premier League has ever seen, his latest blunder — inexplicably allowing a tame cross-shot from Simon Davies to slip through his fingers, hit him on the chest and bobble into the net — setting Spurs on their way to a first defeat under Harry Redknapp, who now fears his number one will be targeted by merciless opponents.