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Wilkinson told Sky Sports: "It's the end of a great week and two wins with the same hallmark. At the start of the week I wanted three things - a clean sheet, a Kevin Phillips goal and a first victory. I've got all of them.
"Let's hope we've started but we know we've got a long way to go and we've got a hard one next week (Liverpool away).
"I was pleased with the character and how we hung in in the first half. The self-belief which confidence breeds wasn't quite there in the first half.
"But at half time Steve Cotterill and I said a few words and in the second half the players kicked on, and once we got the goal we started to perform like we know they can."
Tottenham match report
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