Tottenham Hotspur seek seaside solace in Dubai after Blackpool loss

Tottenham Hotspur will spend the next week training in Dubai due to the break in their fixture list that means Harry Redknapp's team are not in action again until 6 March when they travel to Wolverhampton Wanderers. The side now have 10 days to refocus following the 3-1 defeat to Blackpool at Bloomfield Road on Tuesday evening that Michael Dawson, the team captain, said left them "bitterly disappointed". He told the club website: "We had all the chances but they created four or five opportunities and scored three goals. We are bitterly disappointed with the goals we gave away and obviously not putting a few in the back of the net at the other end. The first one was a penalty and with the second we were on the attack and they broke away. It is normally us doing that to teams but they did it to us. "We knew at half-time and said make sure we get the next goal. If we could have got one early in the second half then they would have been on the back foot. We've got 10 days now to think about it and as players you look at performances and results – but we've got to move on. It was a disappointing night, but credit to Blackpool." After the match against Wolves, Milan visit White Hart Lane on the following Wednesday for the return leg of the Champions League last-16 tie. Gennaro Gattuso has said he will not travel because "37,000 people are waiting to give me a slap". The midfielder butted Joe Jordan, the Spurs first-team coach, during the opening leg at San Siro and is suspended after being booked during Spurs' 1-0 win in Italy last week. He was handed a furtherfour-match ban by Uefa after his run-in with Jordan which began during the match and continued after the final whistle. Gattuso said: "I would like to go to White Hart Lane for the second leg but I have been advised not to. I have been told there will be 37,000 people there just waiting to give me a slap, so I will stay in Milan. It was lucky Zlatan Ibrahimovic [the Milan striker] was not at my side when the confrontation with Jordan happened. If he had been, the fight would still be going on."