Tottenham Hotspur captain Younes Kaboul has called on the club's players to be braver, saying the squad needed "more personality" after they slumped to a 2-1 defeat to Newcastle at White Hart Lane on Sunday.

Spurs led at the break thanks to an Emmanuel Adebyor header, but conceded an equaliser within seconds of the restart when Sammy Ameobi struck.

Within 12 minutes of that goal Mauricio Pochettino's team went behind as Ayoze Perez headed home, and Kaboul described the situation as "unacceptable."

"At the start of the second half, it was blackout," The Evening Standard reported him as saying.

"We came back on to the pitch not thinking, missed the pass and Sammy Ameobi went through and scored.