Cup shame as Millwall revisit the ugly game

Tottenham 6 Millwall 0: This was a throwback to both the good and the bad old days of English football. Tottenham cruised into the FA Cup semi-finals, 6-0, beating a Millwall side whose wholehearted effort on the pitch was marred by the behaviour of supporters off it.

There were scores of riot police down Tottenham High Road, ugly clashes in the streets before and after the game, and a skirmish in the corporate boxes. There appeared to be racist chanting from the Millwall section of the ground towards Heung-Min Son, Tottenham’s south Korean forward, who scored a hat-trick to make up for the early loss of Harry Kane. Kane left White Hart Lane on crutches, after injuring his right ankle in the eighth minute.

It is the same ankle that Kane injured in September, when it put him out of action for seven weeks, and Mauricio Pochettino is hoping the Premier League’s leading scorer is not badly injured again.