What he's saying doesn't surprise me one bit but it's not all down to the fans because we were s**t last week at Villa too. I think part of it is the pressure in general but frankly you can't put nerves down to it everytime. Our players are making bad decisions that put themselves under pressure too and that's why we're in this mess. We had a positive start to the season winning away at West Ha,, then battering QPR and that should've given them confidence. Against Forest, City, Arsenal and Villa we showed fight and belief. Against Newcastle, Sunderland and Southampton we were over confident if anything.
I don't understand it. They all arrived at Spurs being able to pass the ball but some of the passes yesterday would've made me question if they'd played the game before. Clearly there must be something going on to make them play so badly, yet I don't buy the confidence thing for the reasons I've said and I don't buy it being the manager because by all accounts Pochettino improved the quality of football at both Espanyol and Southampton, it was an inability to break teams down at times which was their problem, not passing it to the opposition in your own half.
Whatever it is, the team and management need to sort it out amongst themselves. We've known for awhile the atmosphere has been declining at the Lane but the crowd need encouragement just as the players do and nothing will change whilst we're all pointing fingers at eachother, and going on past record the crowd aren't going to magically get behind the team win or lose.
