Stoke conundrum confounds Spurs

Tottenham Hotspur 0 Stoke City 0

“If it was easy, then Stoke wouldn’t have the best defence in Europe.”

It’s a statement that puts a rather different slant on the old line about rainy Wednesday nights in Stoke. And, although it has to be put in the context of the Spurs boss trying to cover an unimaginative attacking performance from his team, it isn’t without a few concrete facts to back it up.