Adam Birchall on North London Derby draw

Birch vs SpursAdam Birchall was keen to focus on the positives from our under-18s 4-4 draw with Tottenham Hotspur.

We led 4-3 after a frantic first half thanks to goals from Max Dowman, Sam Onyekachukwu, Ife Ibrahim and Louis Zecevic-John.

But despite a determined second-half performance, we had to settle for a point after Spurs equalised with the final kick of the game.

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Birchall felt that we would have deserved the three points had we held out.

“Obviously I’ve got a lot of disappointed players in the dressing room, but I’ve tried to remind them how good they were in the first half. That performance with the ball and without it was probably as…