Former Tottenham Hotspur player and manager Tim Sherwood has been explaining why the club’s fans still make him chuckle.
Tottenham have been fast establishing themselves in the Premier League elite in recent seasons under Mauricio Pochettino.
Spurs have become one of the most dangerous and exciting teams in Europe and were unlucky not to advance to the quarter-final stage of the Champions League after a brilliant showing against Italian giants Juventus.
Pochettino replaced Tim Sherwood in the Tottenham hotseat back in 2014 when the former player was sacked after finishing sixth in the league on 69 points.
Spurs’ progress has surprised many since, except Sherwood who has repeatedly backed his old club and Pochettino to bring silverware to North London for years to come.
Sherwood also often lays claim to being the man who gave talismanic striker Harry Kane his big chance in the team.
The facts speak for themselves, though, as it was Sherwood who rewarded Kane with his first start in the Premier League, during which Kane scored before going on to score in the next two as well. And the rest for Kane and Spurs, as they say, is history.
“It obviously makes me proud,” Sherwood told Sky Sports while insisting Kane’s breakthrough was not inevitable.
“Every loan I sent him out on, not one manager told me he would make a Premier League player.
“He struggled to convince the Tottenham fans at first. One of their own? It makes me laugh every time I hear it.
“They wanted the big name ending in ‘o’ to come into the team before Harry. I am not having that it was a golden generation. They just needed a chance.”
And boy didn’t they take it, elevating Tottenham to being genuine contenders at the top end of the table since.
Indeed many point to the one-off nature of the last three seasons as being the only reason the club has not delivered a Premier League title.
Leicester City pulled off one of the most remarkable feats in sporting history, Chelsea had no European football for the first time in recent memory on the way to their title win last season and now Manchester City, in a league of their own on and off the pitch, on the brink of wrapping up the title as early as the first week of April.
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