Premier League updates from the 5.30pm BST kick-offPochettino tells Tottenham to toughen upAnd you can email Rob your thoughts 4.41pm BST Pre-match reading Related: Pochettino, respect, and the ‘never kicked a ball in your life’ theory | Barney Ronay Related: Mauricio Pochettino tells Tottenham to toughen up for trip to Brighton 4.37pm BST The 3pm kick-offs are into the final 10 minutes. Wolves are drawing 1-1 at Old Trafford, while Liverpool and Manchester City are cruising to victory. Related: Liverpool v Southampton, Man Utd v Wolves and more: clockwatch – live! 4.34pm BST Brighton (4-1-4-1) Ryan; Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Bong; Stephens; Knockaert, Propper, Bissouma, March; Murray.Substitutes: Button, Balogun, Bernardo, Kayal, Locadia, Andone, Jahanbakhsh.Tottenham Hotspur (4-2-3-1) Gazzaniga; Trippier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose; Dier, Dembele; Moura, Eriksen, Son; Kane.Substitutes: Whiteman, Sanchez, Aurier, Winks, Lamela, Wanyama, Alli. 4.22pm BST Tottenham have won something! Alas, it’s the Premier League Crisis Baton™, passed each week to the team that a hysterical media deems to be in crisis. Spurs have lost three games in a row, all narrowly, two of them to superpowers of world football. Disaster! It’s the opinion of this narrator that almost all of their problems could be solved by giving Harry Kane a month off, but it takes a brave manager to do that when he’s holding the Crisis Baton.Football is a perception industry as well as a results business, and Spurs really can’t afford a fourth consecutive defeat today. Brighton is a tricky place to go – they’ve lost only four home games since returning to the Premier League – and Spurs drew 1-1 here in April. In the circumstances, they’d probably take that today. Continue readingreadfullarticle
