<strong>‘Both of my former clubs will win silverware this season’ says legendary London trophy winner</strong> | OneFootball

Managers Enzo Maresca and Ange Postecoglou are both under pressure at Chelsea and Tottenham respectively going into the latest battle of the Bridge between the sworn London enemies this week.

There is more on the line for Chelsea’s Maresca as he looks to lead his men to Champions League qualification amid a Europa Conference League campaign, while Spurs boss Postecoglou has just the Europa League to salvage his and his club’s wretched season.

Graham Roberts, who starred for both teams, says both bosses will be smiling when they are lifting trophies next month.

“Things have not worked out as they would have liked so far in the league, but I definitely think they will both win their respective European cups,” Roberts claimed.

“Chelsea are far too good for the Conference and Spurs will win The Europa. Why do I say that? Well, we are as good as anyone in the country with a fully fit team.”

The ’we’ might grate with some but White Hart Lane has long been regarded as Roberts’ spiritual footballing home.

He was a tough tackling top flight defender and an England international who was also revered by Glasgow Rangers fans in Scotland for his whole-hearted successful spell north of the border.

The ex-Southampton youth team player is perhaps best known and loved, however, for his time at arch London rivals Tottenham and Chelsea.

He started the 1980s at Tottenham, where he won the FA Cup twice before captaining their 1984 UEFA Cup winning side, before ending the decade as skipper of the Chelsea side that won the Second Division and promotion back into the top flight in 1989.

Roberts, talking to Hayters TV on behalf of Mr Vegas Online Casino, said: “If you get our best team out, we’re as good as anybody in the country. We have just not had the luck this year with the injuries.

“People knock the chairman (Daniel Levy), but I think he’s done a great job for the football club. Yes, we want to see a couple more players come in, but the fans have their right to say what they want to say.

“I’m not getting involved with fans because I  believe that we will win something this year. I think we’ll win the Europa League. And if we have that and we finish eighth or ninth, then  the league position isn’t right, but we won a trophy. So we have to put all our eggs in that basket this year. “

“And, whatever you say, Thursday night is an absolutely massive game. It’s been like that for the last 25 years and more.”

And he called on the Tottenham players to do their but for Postecoglou and Levy. He concluded: “I think the players are to blame [for where they are in the table]. think the players have to look at themselves and say, ‘what can we do to get us out of this?

“That said Chelsea are going for the Champions League so  this game is probably bigger for them than it is for Tottenham.

“But get me right, I think Tottenham need to put on a show. I think they need to turn up, roll their sleeves up and really battle hard because it’s not an easy place to go. I am predicting a lot of goals and a cracking match.”