Jamie Carragher has slammed other pundits for their “lazy” comments about Tottenham’s Spursiness.
The former Liverpool defender was analysing Spurs’ 1-0 defeat to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final on Monday Night Football and disagreed with the assertion that it was a ‘typical Spurs’ performance.
It was their fourth final defeat since they last won a major trophy – the League Cup in 2008.
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Carragher’s dig wasn’t aimed at a particular pundit – at least not explicitly – though Roy Keane has consistently hammered Spurs over their ‘DNA’ in a trophyless period.
“In that DNA with Spurs, there’s still a weakness to them, there’s still a softness to them,” Keane said in June 2020.
He later said: “That’s in Tottenham’s DNA, they will constantly disappoint you.
“The table doesn’t lie, ninth, that’s where they deserve to be.”
”A lot of pundits say typical Spurs, that is lazy punditry.” @Carra23 says the League Cup final defeat was on the players at Tottenham and talks about them not turning up on the big occasion pic.twitter.com/37FDOQMLPn
— Football Daily (@footballdaily) April 26, 2021
Carragher said: “In this job I do, a lot of people, a lot of pundits, say ‘typical Spurs’, ‘Spursy’, ‘they’re weak’. I fight against that. The reason being is because I think it’s lazy punditry. I do. In the job I’ve been doing I’ve seen some brilliant Spurs teams.
“Not won the league, not won the Champions League. But being totally honest I haven’t expected them to.
“What we saw under [Mauricio] Pochettino for three years was outstanding. What I saw under Harry Redknapp for two, three years was outstanding as well.
“This [defeat] has nothing to do with Ryan Mason. At all. This is a group of players who really lack courage and basically bottled it in the final. Forget losing.
“They weren’t expected to win against Man City but how they went about it. But when Spurs fans get upset the reason people speak about them in them terms is because of games like this.
“The last four cup finals they haven’t scored a goal. And this performance is basically why they’re stuck with this tag.
“And I can’t argue for them. And Spurs fans can’t argue for them on the back of this performance. It is on the players. Nothing to do with the manager.”
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