KICKING ’N’ SCREAMING

Moore: ’I’ve answered the call’... and his battling Baggies won’t go quietly

CHRIS BRUNT Without the Northern Ireland international to rally the troops, Darren Moore wouldn’t have put this run together. Unfussy, tireless – there when West Brom needed him most. had to be a team performance and it turned out that way. “We had to deny them space to move. We knew we had quality on the bench, and that when the game would open up we would be able to exploit that.” West Brom did not pose too much of a goal threat. Ironically, their best chance came and went when Kane flashed at a clearance and Hugo Lloris pulled off a superb reflex stop. Despite what Moore planned – to have a go in the final quarter – it didn’t quite work out like that. The hosts struggled to make any headway until Matt Phillips’ corner bounced around the six-yard box in injury time. The ball hit Danny Rose, Livermore was involved, then it rolled over the line. And pandemonium broke out. Asked again if he wanted to take the Baggies job full-time, Moore responded: “I can’t dictate what people are saying, I’ve answered the call by the club, to take the club for the last six games.

“I’m sharing my heart with you, you know.”

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino was unusually disgruntled. With good reason.

One team took nothing for granted. The other was Spurs, whose defensive work was fine until those final few mad moments.

But they were ponderous, sloppy