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Tottenham hero Mickey Hazard: Mourinho has players grinding out wins like champions

Tottenham hero Mickey Hazard believes they can win the Premier League title under Jose Mourinho.

Hazard, a UEFA Cup winner with Spurs in 1984, reckons his former club are firmly on track to win their first title since 1961.

"If I have one regret about the team I played in - which was more than good enough to win a title on two or three occasions - is that we didn't grind out results on days when the flair wasn't quite there," he said.

"You can't play beautifully for 40-odd games in a season and this Spurs side realises that. The desire to stop the opposition scoring in tight games is what title winners are made of.

"It's a case of learning that when things aren't going your way, you can dig in as a unit and do everything that's necessary to get the three points.

"Even Harry Kane is now tackling like a centre-back at times."

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