Harry Redknapp hits back at Gary Neville for ‘disgraceful’ Tottenham comments

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Gary Neville slammed Tottenham Hotspur after their Premier League defeat at home to Manchester City on Monday.

Gary Neville did not hold back when discussing Tottenham Hotspur after Monday night’s 1-0 home defeat against Manchester City.

Spurs were far from their best against Pep Guardiola’s champions, going down to an early Riyad Mahrez goal at Wembley. And, although the North London side have come on leaps and bounds in recent seasons, their decade-long trophy drought continues to hang above their head, as does a reputation for being something of a ‘nearly men’ club.

Speaking on Sky Sports (29 October, 7:00pm), former Manchester United captain Neville launched a tirade against Tottenham’s recent record.

“Tottenham for 30 years of our life were spineless and soft, flaky, rubbish,” he said.

“You could be 2-0 down against them and think you’d win 5-2, that’s just the way they were. You knew one little bump in the game and they’d just fall over it. They were pathetic.”

Harry Redknapp, however, clearly sees things differently.

Redknapp spent four years in charge of Tottenham between 2008 and 2012, leading the club into the Champions League for the first time with a dramatic 1-0 win away at Manchester City, before beating the likes of Inter and AC Milan on Europe’s biggest stage.

And Redknapp believes his side, containing the likes of Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Rafael Van der Vaart, cannot be labelled ‘pathetic’.

“Gary’s comments were an absolute disgrace. We weren’t gutless, spineless, pathetic,” Redknapp told Alan Brazil on talkSPORT (31 October, 9:00am).

“I managed a team there who had to go to the Etihad and beat Man City to get into the Champions League. We won 1-0, got into the Champions League, got drawn into a group with Inter Milan who were the holders at the time.

“We finished above them. We went to Milan, had a goalkeeper sent off after 10 mins, conceded four in the first half and got three goals back in the second. Gareth Bale ran them ragged. If the game was 10 minutes longer we’d have won. That’s not a team that is gutless.

“It’s a disgrace to label people like Modric, Bale, (Ledley), King, Van der Vaart spineless, gutless. I was so upset with his comments. He was totally out of order.”