Tottenham Hotspur legend Terry Dyson believes current manager Mauricio Pochettino is the club’s modern-day version of Bill Nicholson.





Dyson told the Daily Express that the Argentinian is on his way to emulating the achievements of the club's best ever manager, given the work he's carried out in just a short space of time at White Hart Lane.

Pochettino was appointed at Spurs in the summer of 2014 after a successful spell with Southampton, and has guided the club to second in the Premier League with 13 games to go of the current season. They trail league leaders Leicester by five points, but each of the top four face off against a direct rival in fixtures coming up on Sunday.





And Dyson, who won the league with Spurs in 1961, thinks Pochettino has got his side playing in a similar fashion to the teams Nicholson managed in his heyday.





He said: “I don’t really know him but just from seeing how he has put his team together there seems to be a similarity. We do play well at times.





“He has got the respect of all the players and seems to have developed a system where players arrive and simply slot in and play some good football.

“People used to ask me how come we scored so many goals? It was because we played the same way away from home as we did at White Hart Lane. We just attacked teams. Pochettino’s side does the same.





“This current side is entertaining to watch, which is what we were. People used to like watching us play. Bill used to say to us our responsibility was to please the spectators and we had to give everything we had to make sure they went home happy. And we usually did.”





Nicholson was in charge of Spurs’ first-team from 1958 to 1974.

Tottenham Legend and Hero of '61 Terry Dyson talks comparing eras and Mauricio Pochettino #COYS pic.twitter.com/bAfQMbbg1G — Spurs Nostalgia (@thfcnostalgia) February 11, 2016

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