But the Spaniard fails to convince The Spoiler

David Bentley was axed from Tottenham’s 18-man squad for the 2-0 UEFA Cup loss to Udinese but Juande Ramos denied dropping the winger because he had labelled the club’s season “shocking” and “a bit shit”. Ramos said:

“I just had to choose 18 players from out of 20. I don’t know about his comments.”

The main reason The Spoiler refuses to believe this is because Ramos had included Bentley in his eighteen for every previous game this season and while he was poor against Stoke, he wasn’t much worse than the other midfielders on show that day like Luka Modric and Jermaine Jenas, both of whom made the Udinese squad.

And surely being excluded was a big enough blow to Bentley’s sizable ego without Ramos compounding it by declaring to the media that he considered him one of the two worst players available to him?