Tim Sherwood handed Tottenham head coach job until 2015

ottenham have appointed Tim Sherwood as head coach on a full-time basis.

The former England midfielder guided Spurs to a 3-2 win at Southampton on Sunday as interim boss and has now been handed a contract until the end of the 2014-15 Premier League season.

 Sherwood, 44, replaces Andre Villas-Boas who was sacked by Spurs last week.

"We believe Tim has both the knowledge and the drive to take the squad forward," Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy told the club's official website.

Sherwood, who won three caps, joined Tottenham as a player in 1999 from Blackburn, where he won the Premier League title in 1995.

He left White Hart Lane in 2003 to join Portsmouth but returned as part of the club's coaching staff in 2008 under then-manager Harry Redknapp.

Sherwood was working as technical co-ordinator when chairman Levy asked him to look after the first team following Villas-Boas's departure.

The Portuguese, 36, left the club after winning only two of his last seven league games in charge.