Jamie O’Hara has launched a passionate defence of former employers Tottenham following criticism aimed at Antonio Conte.
SpursNow they are third on the table, having enjoyed their best Premier League season start after ten matches.
After winning seven matches and losing to bitter rivals, the north London team has scored 23 points out of a possible 30, including 23 points for their win. Arsenal.
They trail the Gunners only by four points after their Saturday’s 2-0 victory over Everton.
But despite their strong start to the campaign, fans and pundits haven’t been impressed by Conte‘s counter-attacking style of play.
Ex-QPR boss Neil Warnock described it as ‘boring football’Spurs icon Clive Allen has questioned Conte’s tactics.
And O’HaraSpurs legend Thierry Henry, who played 56 times between 2005 and 2011, believes Tottenham are being harshly criticized. He said that Tottenham are a problem to any top-flight team.
Speaking on talkSPORT, O’Hara said: “Everyone on this station digs out Spurs, saying that we’re boring, saying that we’re not good to watch.
“This is the problem I have with everyone at the minute, Spurs a problem for the big hitters.
“Because Spurs are flying right now, we’ve got an unbelievable stadium, an unbelievable manager and this is our best start to a Premier League season.
“So the agenda against Spurs is, ‘we need to keep Tottenham down there. We need to keep digging at them, keep moaning…’
“We’re level on points with Man City! Level on points!”
He added: “Teams like Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, United, Liverpool… they’re worried about Tottenham.
“Because they’ve seen now what we can do and what we can achieve.”
Asked by co-host Jason Cundy what can Spurs do, O’Hara roared: “We’re level on points with Man City! 23 [points] and you’re moaning about our style of football.”
O’Hara continued: “No-one gives Tottenham any plaudits for what we’re doing as a football club. No-one.
“Everyone is just quick to just put us down again, everyone’s raving about Arsenal. Arsenal was pumped up at the weekend and got a win.
“No-one said about Arsenal being useless in the second half because they got a result.
“But when Tottenham play bad and win, ‘oh Tottenham are useless, boring to watch’ – we beat Everton 2-0!”
