Source: Team_Talk
Festival disrupts Spurs' plans
Tottenham's plans for Thursday night's Europa League play-off with Hearts have been disrupted by the Edinburgh Festival.[LNB] Additional visitors to the Scottish capital during August means Spurs cannot be accommodated in a suitable hotel, so they are staying 50 miles further north in St Andrews.[LNB]Harry Redknapp's men will train at their Chigwell base on Wednesday and forego the opportunity to see Tynecastle tonight before tackling Hearts in the play-off first leg on Thursday.[LNB]Spurs first-team coach Joe Jordan said in a number of Scottish newspapers: "It's been a problem with our preparation, but we'll get around it.[LNB]"We would have preferred to stay in Edinburgh, but we're a long way away from it. We're up at St Andrews.[LNB]"We would have liked to have been closer on the day of the game so our journey there would have been a lot shorter."[LNB]The fixture will be Spurs' first competitive match of the season, with their Premier League opener with Manchester United following on Monday.[LNB]But Jordan expects Redknapp to select a strong team to play Hearts, rather than rest players for the Old Trafford clash.[LNB]Former Hearts boss Jordan added: "I don't think that will ever enter the manager's head.[LNB]"He knows the difficulty of this game and knows the danger of the opposition."[LNB]
