More Front Than Southend

Hugo said: “At the end we got one point at City away when they probably played their best game of the season.

“It is a very good point. Of course we are able to do better with and without the ball but this was a game where we won the point with spirit and that is very positive.

“We talked to each other at the end of the game and this is a big change from the past. Maybe a few years ago we would have lost a bad defeat, especially at 2-0 down.

“The first one was a bit unlucky but the second one was my personal mistake. But in the last two or three seasons we have changed our mentality and we showed it. Even in a bad day it is a great point.”

In an era of ‘fake news’ and spin, Hugo Lloris could leave football today and get a job on Buzzfeed’s news desk tomorrow.

Lloris needs to drop the ambassador routine and spend more time practising not being a tit when wearing a Spurs shirt.

Being 2-0 down in the first place is what you discuss, not how you managed to avoid the game ending 4-0.

If anything the mentality has NEARLY changed.

And that’s your quote from the team captain.