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The way some are going on you would think that Spurs have never played negatively ever before, go back to 23rd November 1963 away to Ipswich Town , manager Bill Nicholson set us up to play the offside trap can't remember exactly how often the Ipswich forwards were caught out but pretty sure it was into double figures . We have played some negative football under every manager from Bill to Jose apart maybe from Ossie when it was charge of the light brigade stuff, don't leave anybody defending.
Playing the offside trap and playing with 11 players behind the ball are completely different. There are lots of teams who play attacking football and at the same time have a high line playing the offside trap.
Sticking 11 men behind the ball and playing on the break against the worst teams in the league with inferior squads is negative football. 1 - 0 George Graham was negative football.
At some point Id expect every one of our managers to have played a defensive game against the teams that are better than us, that's tactics and sensible at times. But playing negative football and being dominated by worst teams than us at home is a completely different matter.