Tottenham keeper Whiteman full of pride after Degerfors loan success | OneFootball

Tottenham goalkeeper Alfie Whiteman is full of pride after his successful loan with Degerfors.

Whiteman helped keep Degerfors in the Allsvenskan last season.

He told the club's website: “You could feel among the town, the team and everyone involved with the club, just how much it meant to them. It's a small town but everyone there just lives for the football club, so it was an amazing thing to be part of.

“I got injured in training the day before the Ostersunds game, we had a long coach journey and there was hope that I'd be fit for the game so I travelled, but that night and into the next morning, it was decided that I wasn't fit enough to play, but they still needed me to sit on the bench because they had no other keeper. It was a real shame that I didn't get to play that last game, but we dominated, we missed a lot of chances and our keeper wasn't too busy in the end.

“Our game finished, we won 1-0 which we had to do, but there were five minutes of injury time in the Malmo-Halmstad game and if Halmstad were to have scored, they would have avoided the relegation play-offs and we'd have gone into them, so we were all in the middle of the pitch surrounding someone who had the stream on their phone, all watching and waiting for it to finish.

"As soon as their final whistle went, we just ran over to our fans and the celebrations started. We were in the north of Sweden and we had a nine-hour coach journey back, so the singing didn't stop for the whole time! Then we went straight to celebrate with all the locals. It was pretty surreal."