Former Tottenham owner Alan Sugar has taken aim at the mentality of Arsenal's players.

The Gunners host Spurs tomorrow at high noon.

"I've been a great fan of Arsene Wenger for years," said Sugar to BBC Sport. "He's had them in the Champions League for 20-odd years. I don't think anybody else has ever achieved that.

"I think there's a kind of precipitation down to the players – what I would call adverse publicity… external influences from the media, uncertainty of contracts of some of the players, uncertainty of whether Arsene is really going to hack it anymore.

"And that does get down to the pitch. It is really reminiscent of my days at Spurs, where the players were kind of resigned to the fact that we were useless, because the media were saying we were useless."