What was easily noticeable from my lofty perch and perhaps not picked up by Roy at pitch level were the acres of space through the middle that were available. At one point Doucoure picked up the ball and looked left and right only to see Eze and Olise on one side and Schlupp and Zaha on the other closely marked. He stepped up with the ball but looked like he was getting a nosebleed going that far forward and it came to nothing.

I would like to have seen us have a complete change of tactics second half and maybe could have gone 4-4-2 with Mateta and Zaha up top, and playing more through the middle.

We definitely ran out of ideas trying the same thing time and time again, with our ‘skilful’ players being constantly faced up by two defenders. I hated Spurs approach to the last half hour but under Mason they had come up with a defensive plan that was very effective and given their recent troubles I thought they looked reasonably solid. It definitely looked like a different manager bounce from them defensively.

I thought we deserved a point, it wasn't a great match all-round, it showed some of the things we know, we lack a Vardy style CF someone who plays on the shoulder of the last man, Ayew was missed on the left wing, Zaha is a me,me,me player, we lack height throughout the team , and the bench is awful, you would only want to bring on Richards or Hughes, as Willo said we dont have Kane.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Agree. They do it in rugby too and have done for some time.

Rugby Union, from mics on refs to the stopped watch for when the ball is not in play is surely just an example of common sense and intelligent decision making. Football the opposite of this. Granted it may not happen at lower levels for Rugger however the minnows of Crystal Palace spent £30mil+ on the statuesque Benteke a number of years ago now, the money is there for it.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Willo, you had to be there to truly appreciate the poor level of refereeing. Zaha was kicked all afternoon and Spurs got away with it most of the time; yet when he wrestled the ball out of Forster’s hands he got booked while FF who was blatantly time wasting got 3ugger all.

One rule for the big clubs!

Bring back Brolin

This 100%

If we were in the position where we needed to preserve our lead or hold out for a point, our supporters would not be averse to any 'Game Management'.