London: Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino accepted on Monday his job will come under scrutiny if fails to rally the flagging fortunes of last season's Champions League finalists. Spurs have endured a terrible start to the season, winning just three of their first 12 games in all competitions, which has seen Pochettino face prolonged criticism for the first time in five-and -a-half years at the club. "I am not surprised. That is football," said Pochettino. "Football is always about to win today and tomorrow, what happened yesterday is gone. "I understand it's the business.

I am 47 - look, why do you think that I don't have white hair? "Because I don't pay attention to any of this. I only pay attention to what we need to do to improve our performance." Pochettino said after Saturday's 1-1 draw against bottom-of-the-table Watford that his side was slowly regaining their confidence after a 7-2 thrashing at the hands of Bayern Munich in the Champions League three weeks ago. Tottenham can begin to put that result right when they host Red Star Belgrade on Tuesday with the chance to move back into pole position for a place in the last 16.