Pool sunk as Spurs plead the fifth

IF Harry Redknapp was looking for inspiration to mastermind Tottenham’s fifth place finish, and to secure a Europa League spot, then he found it here.

Prior to the season’s penultimate Premier League game, a shootout to make Europe’s second-tier competition, the Tottenham manager warned his players they would be returning early from their summer breaks due to being top of the Fair Play League.

A mischievous move or not, it proved the trick.