"Committed as family" - Vitor Pereira's assessment of Wolves togetherness

Wolves racked up a fourth straight win by comfortably dispatching Tottenham to underline progress made under Pereira in recent weeks and months.

A position of 16th is the highest achieved this season and Wolves celebrated the successes over Spurs is typical Pereira style as players and staff linked arms to cheer both ends at full-time at Molineux.

The popular 56-year-old then continued his tour of Wolverhampton boozers having been spotted enjoying a post-match beers with supporters in several of the city's watering holes.

Asked about the scenes after a latest win Pereira said: "Football is not only about tactics. It's not only about technical ability.

"Football is about connecting the people. Of course you need to be tactically consistent, but if you don't have the emotional connection, you don't achieve your target.

"If the supporters are not with you, if the club is not with you, the city - what we try is to connect everyone. We are connected. We feel this."

The head coach, who was appointed in December, said anybody coming into Wolverhampton to see a game and witness the full-time scenes would see a club united with its supporters.

"If someone came from Portugal now to watch the game, at the end of the game, he would say to me 'these people - they are committed and family'," added the Portuguese. "This is what I want to see."

Wolves can go level on points with 14th-placed Manchester United with victory at Old Trafford in Easter Sunday's clash.

Asked about his latest trip to the pubs of Wolverhampton to celebrate "first pints and then points" - as his saying and the fan banner goes - the head coach explained how it acts as a recharge.

"Every time!" He smiled. "With football my life here is very simple. What I can do here? I stay at home or be with the supporters to get the energy from them, to recharge me.

"To look in the faces of the supporters and see happiness. This is the most important thing for me, to love all my players and see happiness in faces of people of the club."