There is lingering and understandable fury from Tottenham supporters today about the challenge by Aston Villa's Matty Cash on Rodrigo Bentancur at the weekend, after it emerged last night that the Uruguayan midfielder will be sidelined for two-and-a-half months with torn ankle ligaments.
Cash clattered Bentancur 30 minutes into Villa's 2-1 win in north London on Sunday, with Spurs leading at the time, in a rash tackle which made no attempt to play the ball. He was rightly booked and Bentancur, who was making his first club start in nine months following ACL surgery, was unable to continue.
