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And he is happy to be playing at home rather than at Spurs’ new 62,000-seater stadium.

“Personally, why would I want to go to the Spurs stadium, run around on carpet and get played off the pitch?” Cummins told talkSPORT.

“It’s an absolute no-brainer for me to do it at our place. I know the chairman wouldn’t thank me for saying that, but from a football context, we want to do well in this game.

“For the first time in the club’s history, we’ve got covers over the pitch – which I’m not too happy about. I was hoping it was going to be a bit of a minefield! It’s been protected a bit too much.”