Jermain Defoe has warned his Tottenham teammates that they're not too good to go down.

"We've got a real job to do," said the 26-year-old striker. "In the Premier League, I've never known a season like this. There are a number of good sides down at the bottom of the table, and long gone are the days when reputation alone would be enough to save you.

"It's like anything in life, if you're not good enough, you're going to get found out, and we've seen it more and more in recent years with supposedly big clubs really struggling."