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Tottenham are still top of the Premier League after their one-all-drawer

at Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoon. So why are people

being so negative about the game, Charlie?

Well, I don't think everyone is. I think there was a bit of a split on this

and I think even amongst

individual people there was a bit of a split. I mean, that's kind of how I felt like.

On one hand I thought, you know, it's a point away

at Palace, it's definitely not a terrible result.

And Liverpool drew as well, which makes it even less of a bad result.

But I think the reason there's frustration is there was a nagging sense that it was a game that was there for the taking.

And in the first half, it was impressive because I thought spurs were, you know, a lot more front foot than they have been in the last few weeks.

And they were more effective, really, than they had been in that Burnley, West Brom, Brighton trio of games.

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