PAOK shock has Spurs on brink

TOTTENHAM will need to hammer Shamrock Rovers to make the second round of the Europa League after they were beaten by 10-man PAOK Salonika on a controversial night at White Hart Lane.

Sloppy marking from Sebastien Bassong allowed Dimitris Salpingidis and Stefanos Athanasiadis to give the Greeks a 2-0 lead after 13 minutes but Spurs pulled one back with a Luka Modric penalty after Konstantinos Stafylidis was dismissed for handball on the line.

Tottenham thought they had equalised through Jermain Defoe in the second half, but referee Bas Nijhuis disallowed the goal for a foul on Pablo Contreras.