Mauricio Pochettino insisted Tottenham’s temporary Wembley home was not a factor in Sunday’s 2-1 Premier League loss to Chelsea.
Spurs are tenants of the national stadium this season as the construction of the new White Hart Lane is completed.
And in Wembley’s first Premier League game Spurs were beaten. They have two wins in 11 games since the arena reopened in 2007.
“Wembley was not the problem,” Spurs’ head coach Pochettino said. “I think the ‘Wembley effect’ is not the reason we lost the game. It doesn’t affect me. But I understand that we need to talk, everyone needs to talk.
“It’s not fair to blame Wembley. For me, Wembley is one of the best places in the world, one of the best places to play football.”
Who blamed Wembley?
Unlike every other [recent] Spurs game I’ve watched at Wembley we didn’t look like an anaesthetised England hybrid. The game didn’t drag.
The problem was a combination of playing a trio of 3 CMs that doesn’t work, fielding a blatantly unfit Wanyama – who is routinely one of most important players – and too many of the usual suspects playing as if they were doing us a favour.
Pochettino needs to get rip into this troupe of fairies and start bouncing some boots off their painstakingly tousled locks.
The longer I dwell upon this game the angrier I become. To think that these tarts actually have the audacity to want more money. They’ve won nothing and don’t like that’s going to change anytime soon.