Jamie O’Hara’s Tottenham Hotspur rants have gotten tiresome.
Simply ask Jason Cundy.
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In what has grow to be a well-recognized sight and sound on talkSPORT’s The Sports activities Bar all through the season, O’Hara held nothing again after watching yet one more lacklustre show from his former employers.
The newest was a 1-0 defeat within the first leg of Tottenham’s Europa League final 16 tie away to Dutch outfit AZ Alkmaar, who sit sixth within the Eredivisie.
A brutal personal purpose from Tottenham’s Lucas Bergvall was all that separated the 2 sides.
Nonetheless, had it not been for numerous spectacular stops from Guglielmo Vicario, Ange Postecoglou’s aspect would want to overturn a deficit a lot bigger than the one purpose within the return leg.
Regardless of boasting 62 per cent possession, Tottenham had only one shot heading in the right direction to AZ’s 5.
Postecoglou additionally could have misplaced considered one of his key gamers nearly as rapidly as he returned, with the Australian conceding Dominic Solanke picked up a knock within the contest.
Given the Europa League is Tottenham’s final probability of silverware this season, O’Hara anticipated way over what the workforce turned out in Alkmaar.
“Oh, Jase,” O’Hara started on talkSPORT.
“Look, it is the identical outdated story, Jase. It truly is. And I really feel like I am banging my head in opposition to a wall each time.”
Cundy replied by asking his co-host what he meant by ‘story’.
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Away O’Hara went in his prolonged rant, as he bemoaned how Tottenham battle to play as much as the event.
“We’re simply so common within the huge video games,” O’Hara mentioned.
At this level, a cheeky producer inserted a violin taking part in within the background, to which O’Hara replied: “You understand what, I will ignore it.”
O’Hara added: “The massive video games, you count on huge gamers to step as much as the plate. That tonight was a cup closing.
“That is all Ange has acquired to play for, that is all that the gamers have gotten to play for. The Premier League is gone. We’ll end mid-table.
“So all that issues now’s the Europa League. Champions League soccer we will get if we win. And I anticipated a much bigger efficiency.”
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The loss to AZ additionally made the minimize for what O’Hara described as Tottenham’s ‘completely embarrassing’ performances, with the FA Cup loss to Aston Villa and a humiliating 4-0 defeat to Liverpool within the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final becoming a member of it.
O’Hara then turned his focus to 3 gamers who he believed had been under par on Thursday night.
“(Heung-Min) Son, come on mate,” O’Hara mentioned.
“Step as much as the plate.
“(James) Maddison, you have acquired Roy Keane digging you out. There’s your second to step up and produce one thing huge for the membership. Secure as homes, scared to lose the sport, no concepts going ahead.
“Brennan Johnson, except he is scoring a tap-in, what’s he really giving us? You have to do extra, you must do extra.”
O’Hara’s rant then took him to how nicely Paris Saint-Germain’s wingers carried out in opposition to Liverpool and the directness with which they performed.
As O’Hara continued, the digital camera minimize to Cundy, who hilariously pretended to be quick asleep.
However so passionate was O’Hara’s monologue, he did not even take discover of his sleeping colleague.
“What was that efficiency?” O’Hara continued.
“Greatest recreation of the season and that is the efficiency you set in as skilled gamers, taking part in for Tottenham Hotspur within the Europa League?
“I needed to get it out as a result of I do not need to discuss it once more. That is me finished on it.”
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Fortunately for O’Hara, Postecoglou and everybody else linked with Tottenham, there may be nonetheless one other leg to come back.
With just one purpose in it, there will likely be loads of expectation Tottenham can flip it round when the 2 groups meet once more in north London on March 13.
However ought to the worst-case situation eventuate subsequent Thursday, Cundy higher be ready for yet one more prolonged O’Hara rant.