Tottenham<\/a> manager Sherwood said Thomas Frank\u2019s side lost the biggest game of their season so far against Newcastle United, and understands why supporters were upset after last weekend\u2019s pathetic 1-0 home defeat to London rivals Chelsea.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a big game for him today (against Manchester United),\u201d Sherwood said. \u201cReally huge game of football, because if they lose this game, there\u2019s doom and gloom. And we\u2019re talking about a team sixth in the league.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re in the Champions League, now they\u2019re not going to win that, they lost the biggest game of the season, which was Newcastle in the Carabao Cup, bar none. That is a huge game of football. Well, that\u2019s the easiest trophy to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cNewcastle beat them, and convincingly at that. You lose to Chelsea, a London Derby in front of 60,000 fans. They\u2019re not happy with what they saw, and no one would be, and nor Thomas Frank and the players would be happy with that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey get booed off, there\u2019s a little reaction with Micky van de Ven and Djed Spence with the manager, a little bit of dispute there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sherwood then stated what constitutes a failed season for Spurs, by stating exactly what constitutes a failed season for Spurs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a negative vibe, and there shouldn\u2019t be with the position they are,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut if they don\u2019t finish in the Champions League spots, and they don\u2019t win anything this season, it\u2019s a failure. It\u2019s a failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t just think, well, we improved on the 17th place. We know why they finished 17th, because Ange threw the towel in on the Premier League to win the Europa League.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey managed to do that. They\u2019ve tasted that success now. They\u2019ve had the open-top bus. If they don\u2019t win anything this season, or don\u2019t finish in the Champions League spots, it\u2019s a failure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Using a dramatic word such as \u201cfailure\u201d is sure to get people talking, but it\u2019s absolutely spot on from Sherwood. It\u2019s almost so true that it\u2019s not worth saying in an age of pundits desperate for soundbites.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, we appreciate the honest punditry.<\/p>\n
Just win, Thomas, and everything will be fine<\/p>\n
All Frank needs to do is win football matches. It really is that simple.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe home form\u2026it\u2019s down to one thing: there\u2019s a demand to play a certain way when you\u2019re in front of the Tottenham fans,\u201d Sherwood said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you play away from home, it doesn\u2019t matter how you play.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re very well supported at home; there\u2019s 60,000 demanding to be entertained, not only that, and to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder [Antonio] Conte, under Jose Mourinho, the style of play wasn\u2019t great, but they were winning games, especially early in their tenure.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t matter. It didn\u2019t matter if you won. If you stop winning games and you\u2019re not picking up maximum points, then it matters. Then you start getting scrutinised.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve absolutely got every right to want to be entertained. They\u2019re paying a lot of money to go and watch their team play, but the team is not brave enough at the moment. There\u2019s not enough flavour in there for them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re missing [Dejan] Kulusevski. They\u2019re missing [James] Maddison. They\u2019re players who can slow the game down, and they can get a little bit of control.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment, they\u2019re all about set-pieces. The ball\u2019s out of play, corners, it\u2019s not great to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
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