Jake Livermore is surprised by his success at Tottenham this season.

The local lad has managed 27 appearances this term.

He told the Official Spurs Matchday Programme: "Yes, I suppose you could say I'm a bit surprised with how it's gone so far.

"Obviously at the start I was hoping to have played plenty of games but you never quite know how the season is going to pan out.

"I've had campaigns in the past when you think everything is fine and going to go a certain way and then it ends up going completely the other direction. You pick up injuries, or you go out on loan and there's a change of manager, things don't work out, you can never predict it."