Harry Redknapp says nailing a 90-1 treble over the top three teams in the Premier League would be the best run of victories in his career.
Since losing the FA Cup semi-final, Tottenham have beaten Arsenal and Chelsea in the past 10 days before visiting Old Trafford this lunchtime.
The Spurs boss now expects his side to shrug off their bottlers’ tag and claim fourth place and a Champions League spot for the first time.
“To win these three games would be my best run and I’m hoping Arsenal beat Man City,” said Redknapp, who has won at Old Trafford with West Ham and Portsmouth, and is dreaming of Tottenham’s first victory at Manchester United since 1989.
“We had some great results when we were dead and buried but we kept Portsmouth up in 2006.
“But when you play the top three teams in the country within ten days and beat all of them that would take some beating. You are not going to do that too often.
“I thought the bookies were being a bit stingy making it a 90-1 shot – they should have been a lot higher than that! How many points did you think we would get to before? Two? I would have snapped your hand off for five. I would probably have taken four.
“They’ve given us a real boost. But it’s still really tight.”
Redknapp reckoned six points might be enough to seal fourth place in their last four games.
But after Spurs’ last-day upset at Upton Park in 2006 when a win would have seen them finish above Arsenal, he insisted there is not a lasting culture of failure at White Hart Lane.
“We would be favourites now because we have two extra points but being favourites and actually winning is a different thing,” he said.
“But it is down to the players, it has nothing to do with the club – the double-winning team with Dave Mackay didn’t fall short.
“Now we are getting closer and we have got the likes of Ledley King, Michael Dawson, Wilson Palacios – you can’t have more bigger winners and they are great competitors.”
Redknapp insisted a Spurs player linked with Old Trafford, Welshman Gareth Bale, would not be heading up the M6 like Michael Carrick and Dimitar Berbatov.
“We’re looking to build a team here,” he added. “We wouldn’t be looking to sell players like him.
“He’s the future of the football club.”
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