“But I just didn’t want to do it, I had this deep feeling, and the heartbreak of it was that I was going to have to move away from home, and that was going to kill me. If I were in a flat in Newcastle all by myself, away from my family, I don’t think people could understand. Of Hard to do, especially at my age and with everything else I do.
“I know for a fact if I had gone there I would have had a great time, the lads were absolutely fantastic and I would have been blown away by the pitch and the fans and all that kind of stuff but the sinking feeling was ‘I don’t want to do this.'”
This means that Forrester and Austin will remain Spurs’ only options in goal for the foreseeable future. Forster made his second Premier League start since joining Tottenham last summer at the weekend in a 4-1 defeat at Leicester.