Source: SKY_Sports
Harry looking for top four spot
// A bit of a hack but it works// The article snippet is wrapped onto a second line, even when #article-sub is emptyif( $("div#article-sub").children().length == 0 ) {$("div#article-sub").remove();} Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is growing increasingly excited at the prospect of breaking into the top-four.[LNB] Redknapp acknowledges that gaining a UEFA Champions League place is as hard as ever, but he feels his Spurs team are equipped to do so.[LNB]Tottenham have made a very encouraging start to the new campaign after winning their first four games - only losing for the first time last weekend to Manchester United.[LNB]Now Spurs face Chelsea on Sunday and Redknapp insists his side are genuine contenders in the league this term.[LNB]"Breaking into the Premier League top four is about as easy as breaking into Fort Knox," said Redknapp in his Sun column.[LNB]"Although this season will see the biggest challenge yet to the established elite of Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal.[LNB]"Manchester City have a great chance and my overriding ambition is to make Tottenham part of the gang of four.[LNB]"I still have the same excitement, enthusiasm and appetite for football that I did on my first day in management with Bournemouth.[LNB]"Even though I am in my 60s, like Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger, there is now more of a chance than for years of a new name ousting one of the 'old guard' to finish in the top four."[LNB]Something differentRedknapp says Spurs offer something different to Chelsea.[LNB]"My team does not play like theirs. Chelsea are a big, strong, powerful bunch. We have to go there and attack, it is our only form of defence because we do not have giants of the game like them," he continued.[LNB]"But Spurs are getting there. I can't look beyond the end of this season but the club is resurgent. A new stadium and training ground in the pipeline tell you that as well as performances. It's no pipedream. [LNB]"We have beaten Liverpool this season then looked Manchester United in the eye for an hour before we got killed off.[LNB]"I have told the chairman, Daniel Levy, that it is a long-term plan, roughly 10 years, so I need a 10-year contract to go with it![LNB]"But we have the players who can do it, they must now want it as much as I do.[LNB]"Maybe not this season, although we will give it everything.[LNB]"We're improving and it would be historic to take Tottenham into the Champions League.[LNB]"A couple of years ago the gap between teams like mine and Chelsea widened, now I think it has closed again.[LNB]"On paper, my club still looks to have some work to do catching up with Chelsea.[LNB]"Their front three, if you include Frank Lampard, scores something like 60 goals a season. They are monstrous at set-pieces with players like Didier Drogba and although they don't pass it like my team, they are powerful and ruthless.[LNB]"Consistency often goes out of the window in a volatile derby but long-term we must get it right week-in, week-out."[LNB]
