Foxes still flying Spurs out of tune at Wembley

I SAID last week that I thought Leicester City would enjoy the Champions League, so it was wonderful to see them doing so well at Bruges.

Claudio Ranieri (right) and his men are now set up to get out the group and they did so playing the same quality football as last season. Whatever you tell yourself before the game, players at Porto, Bruges and Copenhagen will feel deep down that they ought to beat Leicester. And Leicester are never more dangerous than when they are underestimated. Making the last 16 would be a fitting continuation of last season’s heroics. TOTTENHAM have to put some serious thought into managing the crowd at Wembley. It was incredible to see 85,011 fans at their Champions League game last week and there was an initial flurry of chants and singing.

But the Monaco goals deflated the crowd very quickly and no one seemed to be able to get the atmosphere going again, and that affected the team.

At White Hart Lane everyone would sit with familiar faces and you can rely on fans on The Shelf or the South Stand to get the chanting going. But at Wembley it was disjointed. A song would start up and get lost before it was picked up.

With Tottenham playing all their games there next season, it is important the club gets it right. At the new ground they are going to have a Kop end where they encourage supporters who want to sing to sit together. Wembley will need the same arrangement or the atmosphere will get lost.

On Wednesday the team were as subdued as the crowd. They can’t afford for that to be the case next season.