Is Newcastle fixture our biggest game of the season

Sunderland thumped Everton last night to secure Premier League status in front of their own fans and in an added bonus sent their fierce rivals Newcastle United into the Championship.

That is good news for Tottenham, given our last game is away to the Rafa Benitez trained team who have become defensively more solid. Tottenham, of course, need a point to finish above Arsenal and we didn't really want to play a team who were fighting for their survival.

Now there may be a negative reaction to already being relegated, just as Spurs players mentally were not at the races after finally conceding the title at Chelsea. Nobody knows how they will react and neither do we know if the Spurs players have grasped the importance of finishing above Arsenal, one or two certainly do, but do they all?

For our system to be successful it requires everyone to be mentally on their game. We rely on off the ball running and mental anticipation. When component parts, especially in midfield are not fully committed to the game then it affects everyone else's game, the passes they expect to make are not possible if a player hasn't anticipated where the pass is going to go.

You can't play slick one-touch football at the angles we play it at without committed movement, half-hearted hopefulness is n no good at all. Without complete commitment you react slower, you make decisions slower so the motivation has to be found, the players have to react after the last performance.

For Spurs fans, this last game is one of the biggest games of the season now, is it for the players?