TON OF A SON

Heung-Min nets 100th Prem goal but says three points are more crucial now

- MIKE WALTERS 

AFTER the best fight at Tottenham since Frank Bruno's heavyweight requiem for Joe Bugner, Heung-Min Son's 100th Premier League goal was relegated to the undercard.

But as the Spurs centurion celebrated his landmark, Son admitted he had struggled to live up to winning the Golden Boot last May. Under normal circumstances, his 11th goal of the season a thing of beauty - would have topped the bill.

But the South Korean poster boy's thunder was stolen by red cards for coaches Cristian Stellini and Roberto De Zerbi.

They carried the can for their brawling backroom staff squabbling like ferrets in a sack.

When the FA have rounded up the anarchists, they should be able to buy a desert island with the aggregated fines.

But it will not change Brighton's view that they were robbed by a desperately poor coalition of referee Stuart Attwell and VAR Michael Salisbury, whose ineptitude has probably ended the Seagulls' dream of Champions League football next season.

And Son, whose patchy form included just one goal in 98 days either side of his fractured cheekbone before the World Cup, was brutally honest about his contribution to Spurs' staccato campaign.