NO NEED TO BE ALL TREMBLY AT WEMBLEY

TOTTENHAM fans will be gloomy about their Wembley start, but they are a very good side and they will overcome this troublesome spell. A loss to Chelsea and a late equaliser for Burnley yesterday — well done Sean Dyche, again — is a result of opposition motivation and Spurs’ anxiety and trepidation. That fear is what happens when you can’t secure home form, whatever your home stadium. History and the media then combine to make life even more difficult and the management will be hugely irked by questions about the ‘Wembley jinx’. But the only way to change the narrative is to create a different one of your own. Mauricio Pochettino will be concentrating on his gameplans going forward (Dortmund in the Champions League and Swansea in the league). He will know it is all about taking one small step at a time. One win and it will end the questions, two wins and then three and it will begin to feel like their fortress.