Sport 07-11-2002 North London Crashes Out Of Cup who: Spurs what: Lose 2-1 to Burnley in Worthington Cup where: Turf Moor, BURNLEY when: Yesterday snippet: "FURIOUS Glenn Hoddle tore into his Tottenham team after their shock defeat at First Division Burnley," says The Sun this morning after Hoddle`s high fliers crashed to a 2-1 defeat at Turf Moor. "After getting ourselves into the lead and being in control I cannot believe what happened," groaned Hoddle. "We cannot make any excuses, we were 1-0 up and should have gone on to win." The Times, however, reckons that the Clarets were well worth their win after "the siege that Burnley had laid to the visiting team`s goal" in the second half. Gus Poyet`s seventeenth-minute headed goal was cancelled out on the hour by Robbie Blake after a spell of relentless pressure from the home side, before their next attack, "from a corner, saw defender Steve Davis head home past a statue-like defence." £7million signing Robbie Keane had a "nightmare", reckons The Mirror, "missing three one-on-one chances in the second half as one European door closed for Hoddle`s beleaguered troops." Arsenal were equally stunned after slipping to their fifth defeat in six matches at home to Sunderland, where what The Telegraph calls "a three-goal blitz in a quarter of an hour" wiped out the Gunners` 2-0 lead and sent them out of the Worthington Cup. "Twenty four hours earlier, Arsene Wenger confidently predicted his young Gunners could win the competition," recalls The Mirror. But a goal from Kevin Kyle and two from Marcus Stewart proved him spectacularly wrong. On a night of cup shocks, Middlesbrough went out 3-1 to first division Ipswich Town, Leeds lost 2-1 away at Sheffield United while West Ham`s manager Glenn Roeder will be feeling the pressure as his team`s poor season reached a new low: a 1-0 home defeat to second division Oldham Athletic. [... more]

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