Eriksen fills void at Lane

Tottenham Hotspur 2 Norwich City 0

The Y word — ‘Yids’ — was predictably chanted by those supporters who refused to listen to the English FA’s condemnation of it as an insult. It took just three minutes before Spurs fans, a large number of whom are Jewish, began chanting “Yid Army” followed by “We’re Tottenham Hotspur, we’ll sing what we like”.

It took considerably longer for the B-word — Bale — to be mentioned. It was the final minute of Andre Villas-Boas’s post-match press conference before a reporter brought a smile from the Portuguese coach by asking him about the Welshman, who made a scoring debut for Real Madrid on Saturday night.