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Tottenham Hotspur manager Tim Sherwood urged his players to shake hands with Stoke City's Charlie Adam at a news conference on Friday in Enfield, England.

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SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Sherwood, Tottenham Hotspur

"Listen. Charlie (Adam) is a combative player and he has to do his job as best as he possibly can. I like my players to do the same. Sometimes you are going to mistime them (tackles). But you just get on with the game. It is part and parcel of it unfortunately.

Q. Your message to your players, with regards to Charlie, would be what?

"Don't worry about Charlie Adam. Worry about yourself and try and get the performance. If you perform well collectively, we should get the result that we need. Forget about Charlie Adam. We respect Stoke. We respect the job that Mark Hughes has done. He has been given the time to build something there and he is showing the fruits of it just recently."