THE HOUSE OF TUDOR

Check your history books because Spurs' newest king is '100 per cent' certain they can beat drop... and he's never failed yet

- BY JOHN CROSS

IGOR TUDOR claims that he has never heard the word “Spursy’.

And you can be sure it does not fit with his mentality, as he prepares for his latest managerial Red Adair mission.

It will be some debut, against Tottenham's arch-rivals. But Tudor sees it as an opportunity.

This will be the seventh job that Tudor has taken mid-season to either get clubs into Europe or save them from relegation.

The Croatian coach, 47, has never failed and he insisted that he will “100 per cent” keep Tottenham up.

He stressed that they have enough quality and he will ensure they have enough heart.

That is why going ‘Spursy’ - football slang for bottling it - has never entered his vocabulary.

“Spursy? No, I've never heard of that,” Tudor said.

Pointing to his head and heart, he went on: “It’s about here and here. It’s not about legs. It's about head, it's about brain, it's about heart.”