Hot Defoe finally gets Spurs moving
A comfortable victory over a Reading side that hadn’t played a Premier League game for 25 days won’t banish all the doubts that have rapidly built up around the Portuguese manager but there was a sense at the Madejski Stadium that Tottenham’s season had at last begun.
An opening day defeat at Newcastle followed by home draws against Norwich and West Bromwich Albion had been sufficiently uninspiring to draw murmurings of discontent from some Spurs supporters already unconvinced by Villas-Boas’s abrupt, technocratic style.
