Monday, 23 April 2018

Mauricio Pochettino: ‘Maybe next season we play the FA Cup with kids’ | Sachin Nakrani

The Spurs manager’s comments after his side’s FA Cup semi-final defeat suggest he is becoming frustrated by how his success at the club is being perceived

What is success? It is a broad, somewhat vague question that is relevant to most aspects of life, and particularly so in the context of life at Tottenham Hotspur. Following defeat against Manchester United on Saturday, there were more accusations of “choking” and “bottling it” thrown Spurs’ way, and to some extent they were justified given this was the club’s eighth successive defeat in an FA Cup semi-final, and one in which they faded badly having started strongly and taken the lead. Yet to choke and lose your bottle you first have to get to a stage where those failures are relevant and that is what Tottenham are doing now on a regular basis – winning games, going far, remaining in the conversation beyond the winter and into the heat of spring. Is that in itself not success?

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