Former Tottenham star Jamie Redknapp feels "football man" Tim Sherwood was right to blast his players after their thrashing at Chelsea.
Redknapp wrote in the Daily Mail: "He is a real football man, he speaks from the heart and he just gave his honest view of the performance.
"Some people don't like that passion and you very rarely hear managers take on their players. There is a risk you might alienate the dressing room and Tim might have gone a bit far, but sometimes that's what happens in the heat of the moment. He is no laptop manager and he calls it as he sees it. There has been talk in some quarters that if he doesn't finish in the top four he will lose his job. That is ridiculous. Spurs might expect a top-four finish but they don't have a divine right to be there - they've done it only twice in 24 years."
