Graeme Souness

I can go away for 10 days, knowing I've got to come back to start going through analysis, and that was never a nice thought.

How tough is that for the manager, then?

It's even tougher, yeah.

He wants to get it off his chest, he wants to speak to the players that maybe haven't done what they should have done.

He's got to sit and fester.

As you said, it's the worst thing that can happen.

Losing a game is bad enough, but you want to ideally play the next Tuesday or the next Wednesday, but to have to sit for a good two weeks, it's with you all that time until you've got your group in front of you and you can go over it together.

Let's see what they have got coming up then in the next...

A month or so.

Liverpool, that first game back, which they hoped to do, was at the New Stadium.

Of course, it's going to be at Wembley.

Then they're into the Champions League with Inter at the start of the month.

Then Barcelona early in October as well with Brighton and Huddersfield and a League Cup game against Watford too.

That Liverpool game, Jermaine, though, is that quite a nice game to come back to for Spurs in some respects?

See, if you're going to be one of the contenders, if you're going to be a big team, you fear no-one.

No, this is a punch on the nose.

It might be a wake-up call for them to go again.

I would agree it was at Old Trafford.

Just maybe, although I didn't see any signs of it.

Some of them in their armchair, maybe not giving it 100%.