Graeme Souness

Do you think that players having won 3-0 at Old Trafford might have been a bit confused by that?

Why would they have that complacency if he is giving those messages?

I don't agree with they didn't deserve to beat Manchester United.

I thought Manchester United played very, very well first 20, 30 minutes.

But then on, I thought Spurs were always a team likely to win.

They always had that little bit extra going forward.

It looked like if any team was going to score, it was going to be Spurs.

Going into this game today,

Look, when you have a great result against Manchester United, especially Old Trafford, and it's a place Spurs haven't gone and got your three points in over the Premier League era, coming here then, I can understand then you want to give them a kick up the backside, really, and say, well, OK.

We've just got three points there, but this is so important.

If we can go and make a statement by winning this, because these are the type of games Spurs, down the years, after a good result, have not been able to back up.

But don't players at this level need to have egos massaged?

No, of course there's an element of that, but top players, all right, of course they have great egos, but...

they understand that the good players are going to play, but they have to work as well.

You have to be able to close down, you have to show intensity off the ball.

And the good players are able to show intensity on it.

I just thought they were playing at their own tempo, especially first half, because they were allowed to.

I thought midfield-wise, forward-wise, Watford didn't really offer too much, so it allowed Spurs to knock the ball about.

When the ball went into the final third, they didn't get on first contact.

Actually, if you look at Spurs' goal as well,