"A tortoise couldn’t have gone slower. They didn’t chase it.”

David Pleat has revealed in an interview with The Athletic, which I’ve conveniently De-pay-walled for you here, that there’s something inherently sluggish in the DNA at Tottenham.

Pleat found another brilliant 16-year-old playing for Coventry City’s Under-18s against QPR. “The boy (James) Maddison was so good it was like he had eyes in the back of his h…