Great full league debut. Upped his game further after the goal as he grew in confidence, hopefully that's a sign of what's to come when he's more settled in the side with even more confidence.
Fantastic celebration. You can tell he just knows this wouldn't have been possible if not for Pochettino.
What next for him?
The thing that impressed me most about him was when he had sight of goal from distance and the crowd was going "SHOOOOOT", would have been easy for a young player on his debut in front of the home crowd to start trying his luck, but he kept his composure and tried playing the clever through ball.
He now joins that illustrious list alongside the likes of Dean Marney, Tom Carroll, Ryan Mason, Nabil Bentaleb and Jamie O'Hara as young midfielders that have come through our academy and had people tossing over them on here after their debuts. Who was actually the last midfielder to come through our academy and make a real impact though? Think you'd probably need to go back as far as Barmby?
I saw Marneys debut and thought he would go on to be a world beater and got that wrong, I was not at the game yesterday but he seemed good on the box. Hope he becomes a long term spurs player but at the very least I expect he will get the same amount of games as Townsend to prove his worth, shame Pritchard was not allowed that chance.
The thing that impressed me most about him was when he had sight of goal from distance and the crowd was going "SHOOOOOT", would have been easy for a young player on his debut in front of the home crowd to start trying his luck, but he kept his composure and tried playing the clever through ball.
He now joins that illustrious list alongside the likes of Dean Marney, Tom Carroll, Ryan Mason, Nabil Bentaleb and Jamie O'Hara as young midfielders that have come through our academy and had people tossing over them on here after their debuts. Who was actually the last midfielder to come through our academy and make a real impact though? Think you'd probably need to go back as far as Barmby?
Young Harry Winks, still only 20, left the buzz of the home dressing room following his first ever start for the club to visit his manager to thank him for his part in the dream debut. In fact, the midfielder, who scored Tottenham’s first goal in the 3-2 win, had words for all the staff.
“He came afterwards to the manager’s office and said ‘Thank you’ to all of us, all the coaches,” manager Mauricio Pochettino said. “It’s fantastic for everyone working at the academy.
“He said to us, ‘That was only the start’. I said, ‘Now comes the big challenge for you’. He said, ‘Yes, now I need to work harder to show you that I deserve to play’. That is the mentality that we want.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/harry-winks-eyes-more-glory-with-spurs-431583.html
I think David Howells may be our last academy midfielder to have managed 100 appearances.
Townsend?There is one more recent than that. And I'll let you scratch your head and think for ages to remember who it was...
Townsend?
There is one more recent than that. And I'll let you scratch your head and think for ages to remember who it was...
Ohh a quiz.
Not - Mason, Bentaleb, Townsend, Livermore, Carroll, O'Hara, Marney, Caskey, Turner. Hudd wasn't academy. Barmby was more a forward with us and didn't hit 100 either. Hazard and Hoddle were before Howells. Jamie Redknapp would be clever, but he didn't even hit 50.
Nope - stumped