Poch: I aimed to quit
Bruce blasts back at Toon ‘insults’
TOTTENHAM boss Mauricio Pochettino has admitted he would have quit if they had won the Champions League.
Spurs lost 2-0 to Premier League rivals Liverpool in the Madrid final on June 1.
And the Argentinian said had he won he almost certainly would have left to take up a new challenge.
“Maybe if it was a different result after the final you can think, ‘OK, maybe this is a moment to step out of the club, leave the club and give them the possibility of a really new chapter with a new coaching staff,’” he said. “But after the final, I felt
Turn to Page 44 LEE WESTWOOD and Tommy Fleetwood led the English charge at The Open.
Westwood, 46, rolled back the years to fire a bogey-free second-round 67 and close to within one of leaders Shane Lowry and JB Holmes.
Fleetwood joined him in a tie for fourth at seven-under par with Justin Rose one shot back.
And though Rory McIlroy thrilled his supporters by bouncing back from yesterday’s disastrous opening round with
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