Ange Postecoglou expressed his fury at Ipswich for time-wasting and insisted that Tottenham would never do it.
'I think it's the way the Premier League is going,' he said. 'It's pretty strategic now. It's funny - I always liked the Premier League because it wasn't like that.
'You'd watch teams play in Europe and get frustrated by it, but now it's part of the game here as well. There's nothing we can do about it.
'For us, if we want to mitigate those things - because we don't do it and we want the game to be played - then we shouldn't give opportunities for the opposition to do that.