Redknapp calls for fight from Spurs

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Sunday's late 1-0 defeat against Wigan was their fifth Barclays Premier League match without a victory and they remain in the bottom three. The goal came from the unlikely source of Honduran left-back Maynor Figueroa who headed home Ryan Taylor's right-wing corner.

"It looks like a certain kind of player right through [the squad]. There is plenty of flair," he said. "But we are in a relegation scrap and we need some men and some characters to get us out of it, that is what you are looking for when you are in the position we are in."

He added: "We've got some but not enough. You'd put your life on Jonathan Woodgate, Michael Dawson, Didier Zokora, Jamie O'Hara."

Redknapp also called on his players to dig the team out of the trouble they were in.

"If you look at the results of Tottenham over the last year you have to be concerned," he said. "They had two points from eight games when I came here. How do you get two points from eight games?

"They (the players) put the club in it, it is up to them to get us out of it."

By contrast, Wigan are in seventh on 31 points and are as close in terms of points to second-placed Chelsea as they are to third-bottom Spurs.

Figueroa's goal made it five successive home victories and six wins in the last seven matches, which delighted manager Steve Bruce.

"There is no better time to score than the last minute but if any team was going to get it I felt we were the ones," said Bruce. "We found it very difficult to break them down and halfway through I was thinking it had 0-0 written all over it."