‘Eat those words’: Ian Wright says Tottenham player has gone ‘very early’ with his comments

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Ian Wright stated that he wants James Maddison to ‘eat those words’ after he claimed that Tottenham Hotspur are losing the ‘Spursy’ tag. 

Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham recorded a 2-2 draw against Arsenal in the north London derby, with James Maddison bagging two assists as his team came from a goal down to secure a point – Jude Bellingham lauded the player after the game.

After the game, August’s Player of the Month, tried to brush off the club’s past association with being ’Spursy’, as he told The Guardian.

Whilst Ian Wright thinks ‘they won’t be Spursy anymore’ if they carry down this current road, he doesn’t want that to happen, as he admitted on Premier League Productions (25/09/23 at 2:10 pm). 

In previous years, Spurs fans have been used to their team playing defensive-minded football, with trophy-winning managers in the dugout, but with no success.

But now there is a feeling that Ange Postecoglou has, not only changed the club’s style of play, but the whole vibe and mindset of the players.

Tottenham no longer ‘Spursy’?

“It’s very early for him to say it,” said Wright. “Hopefully, at some stage, he has to eat those words. 

“But you have to look at the way they have started and how the players have responded to Ange Postecoglou and how well they have responded to him. I think in the first half Arsenal could have won that game and we could have lost it in the second half. Tottenham were never out of the game.

“There was a chance when Jesus could have made it 2-0. It could have been interesting how Spurs would have reacted if he scored that chance.

“But, in the main, they carried on playing out from the back, even though they should have been punished and weren’t. Sometimes they went long, then went passing it out from the back – if they can carry on like that, then of course, they won’t be ‘Spursy’ anymore. I am sure that’s something they are trying to lose.”

Confident start by Maddison at Tottenham

There was a lot of noise and expectations on the 26-year-old’s shoulders when he joined Spurs from Leicester City during the summer transfer window.

And, as of this moment, the quick-thinking playmaker is sticking his chest out and leading by example on the ball.

It also needs to be noted that Spurs also lost Harry Kane, the possible link-up between the now-Bayern striker and Maddison would have been out of this world, yet he hasn’t felt sorry for himself, and instead, done his talking on the pitch.