Tottenham Hotspur went to the Tallaght stadium needing a Lyon type turnaround to make it through to the knock-out rounds. From his team selection, including only choosing four subs, it appeared that Harry Redknapp wasn’t really counting on the results going Spurs way.
As the game got started it was clear that Shamrock would try hard and run around a lot. It also appeared that the Spurs players seemed to believe that they were just plain better than Rovers and would win without trying too hard. Fact is they are better than the Rovers boys but no one ever won a football match just by turning up. Except Scotland in Estonia in the 90′s, even that was eventually declared null and void and they drew the replay!! Spurs rarely looked in danger, unless they created it for themselves, but also rarely looked too threaten...