The Insider at White Hart Lane

Tottenham Hotspur 1-3 Everton

It has taken just four painful days for Tottenham's Champions League ambitions to be exposed in savage fashion. As Martin Jol's side took to the field at Sunderland on Saturday, they were being hailed as the new members of the Premier League elite, with a second successive summer of healthy spending apparently pushing Spurs ahead of the other pretenders and turning them into genuine contenders.