Craig Burley

And I agree with James, I think in terms of the short term at this club, I don't... I'm not a big believer in... You need to know the club.

If you're looking at long term, you need to know the club, you need to know the league, all that sort of nonsense.

Because...

Managers learn fast and this game travels.

People know what's happening in the Bundesliga and Serie A, so people know what's happening in the Premier League.

And over a long term, I never buy into that, well, he knows the fabric of the club and all that sort of nonsense.

I think it's just balderdash.

However...

I think on this occasion, for a seven or eight game run or whatever it is, and I've looked at Spurs fixtures, by the way, they are not the easiest.

Not that anyone's going to be easy at this stage, the way they're playing, but they have a particularly difficult run in.

Uh,

And I do feel it needs somebody at this moment in time that can go in, connect the fans, get the players sort of believing again.

And more importantly than if you play a four at the back or a three at the back or a four, three, three, is they need a bit of fight.

I've been at sort of both ends of the spectrum.

I've been near the top of the league at Chelsea and I won the league at Celtic and I've been in a relegation fight at Derby with Jim Smith.

If you don't have any fight in that dressing room to scratch out a nil-nil ugly, a few of those or whatever it is, if you don't have the players to do that, you're screwed.

So they have to find somebody that can come in and somehow motivate these players to make them understand the situation they're in.

Because nine months ago, they were in the Europa League final.

Now they're fighting for the Premier League survival.

That's a different scenario completely.