WHITE FLAG Tony Cascarino blasts Tottenham for their ‘Arsenal performance’ in defeat to Watford

               Craig Cathcart’s winning goal ended Spurs’ 100 per cent start to the season

Spurs' 100 per cent start to the season ended at the hands of this season's surprise package

Tony Cascarino has blasted Tottenham for their ‘soft’ performance in their defeat to Watford, comparing Spurs showing to one Arsenal would put in.

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Mauricio Pochettino’s side lost their 100 per cent record at Vicarage Road, with the Hornets defying the odds to continue their own perfect start to the season.

The Hertfordshire side sit level on points at the top of the table with Liverpool and Chelsea, only behind the traditional big boys on goal difference.

However, they have shaken up the old order in the early stages of the campaign with some brilliant performances, masterminded by head coach Javi Gracia, the man tipped to be the first coach sacked this season.

Watford were themselves not at their best against Spurs, but after going behind to Abdoulaye Doucoure’s unfortunate own goal, the Hornets pressed and harried high up the pitch and appeared to unsettle their opponents.

Momentum swung on one 50/50 challenge between Troy Deeney and Davinson Sanchez that the former won, with both Deeney’s equaliser and Craig Cathcart’s winning goal coming shortly after the challenge.

Spurs seemed unable to deal with a team that used their physicality to great effect, and Cascarino, the former Chelsea forward, believes they resembled their great rivals Arsenal rather than themselves.

“I wonder what Troy Deeney would say about Tottenham,” Cascarino writes in his Times column. “Last season he said Arsenal were soft when Watford beat them and I thought it was the same thing for Spurs yesterday.

“Christian Eriksen was average, Dele Alli and Harry Kane were poor. They were the better team in the first half but not in the second half when they were losing every individual battle.

       Sanchez was constantly harried by Deeney and failed to cope with the Watford captain

“They had beaten Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford on Monday and that is always a danger. You drop off a bit and the other side is very motivated to beat you.

“They just lost the physical side of the game yesterday — it was like an Arsenal performance.”