Jamie Carragher appears to have taken a cloaked dig at Roy Keane in his analysis of Tottenham Hotspur's season.
Carragher railed against the idea of Tottenham being 'weak' or 'Spursy' - a byword for underachievement and a lack of bottle - which Keane criticsed the club for just this month.
Roy Keane criticism
Challenged by Jamie Redknapp that Spurs got to a Champions League final as recently as 2019, Keane told Sky Sports it did not change the impression of Spurs.
"They were lucky to get to that final. Anyway, getting to the final is like being top of the league in November - they got to the final but they got beaten in the final.
"What are we sitting here talking about Mourinho for? If you're going to get to a final - getting to a final, the whole point is to try and win the bloody thing.
"When Mourinho leaves, there will still be a softness to this Spurs team, that is down to the players."
Redknapp asked the Corkonian how long Tottenham have been soft for.
"They've been soft for the last 40 years."
Carragher
Carragher said the total opposite to the same channel on Monday night.
“In this job I do, a lot of people, a lot of pundits, say ‘typical Spurs’, ‘Spursy’, ‘they’re weak’. I fight against that. The reason being is because I think it’s lazy punditry. I do. In the job I’ve been doing I’ve seen some brilliant Spurs teams.
“Not won the league, not won the Champions League. But being totally honest I haven’t expected them to.
“What we saw under [Mauricio] Pochettino for three years was outstanding. What I saw under Harry Redknapp for two, three years was outstanding as well.
“This [defeat] has nothing to do with Ryan Mason. At all. This is a group of players who really lack courage and basically bottled it in the final. Forget losing.
“They weren’t expected to win against Man City but how they went about it. But when Spurs fans get upset the reason people speak about them in those terms is because of games like this.
“The last four cup finals they haven’t scored a goal. And this performance is basically why they’re stuck with this tag.
“And I can’t argue for them. And Spurs fans can’t argue for them on the back of this performance. It is on the players. Nothing to do with the manager.”
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