TOTTENHAM WAFUNZA ADABU SUNDERLAND KWA BAKORA YA MAGOLI 5 KWA 1

There will be a time when Tim Sherwood looks back on his spell as Tottenham manager and wonders what could have been.
This is a plum job, one of the biggest European football, and yet he has just been passing through. It is a great shame.
Another young English coach will leave the game soon and yet he knows he has made too many mistakes as Tottenham’s manager.
This victory, no matter how emphatic, is a sticking plaster before surgery starts on this squad in the summer. It will be a long and painful process.
Even with a win thanks to goals from Emmanuel Adebayor, the lively Harry Kane, the outstanding Christian Eriksen and Gylfi Sigurdsson, there is something rotten at this club.
It will take more than a man with a name as big, perhaps, as Louis van Gaal to put it right.

Back of the net: Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor (left) bundles the ball in to make it 1-1

Pick that out: Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone (right) can only watch as Adebayor's effort nestles into the bottom corner

Main man: Adebayor runs off to celebrate his equaliser in front of the home fans

Looking up: Adebayor looks to the heavens after scoring his ninth Premier League goal of the season

Magic moment: Tottenham striker Harry Kane (centre) steers home his side's second goal

Neat finish: Kane's effort whizzes beyond Sunderland goalkeeper Vito Mannone (right)

Centre of attention: Kane celebrates putting Spurs 2-1 in front in the 59th minute

Down and out: Sunderland duo Wes Brown and Mannone are left on the ground as Kane wheels away

Respect: Spurs boss Tim Sherwood (right) returns Adebayor's trademark salute celebration after the striker's second goal

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