West Ham are at Fulham on Wednesday night. I fancy them to pick up something there. I just donāt see all this confidence in us staying up. We have had team getting relegaged written all over us for a while now, since the turn of the year really.
Today was the day that we were to see the new manager bounce under Tudor. We were as I expected, an utter rabble, completely outclassed by Fulham. Itās not really Tudorās fault, albeit team selections and formations havenāt inspired confidence. I think it was a crazy appointment, but he has come into an utter sh*t show and it would be some job for anyone to turn this ship around before the end of season. The game against Palace at home on Thursday night is just huge. We have to get something out of it, preferably a win. After that the Lilywhites steam into Liverpool, where weāve got stuffed nearly every year since 1912.
i predicted that Tudor would last maybe 5-6 games and would be gone around the time of the international break at the end of March. I might have been a bit conservative in my prediction. There are plenty of mutterings already after getting outclassed by Fulham yesterday.
Things have now got so bad at Tottenham that the Premier League have started lampooning them. This morning a clip has been running on the leagueās own social media feeds of a free-kick from Spurs goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario going straight out of play at the other end of the field with not a team-mate in sight at Fulham.
Whether the Premier League should be using their own feeds to take the mickey out of member clubs is a point worth debating and itās worth noting it has subsequently been deleted.
But nevertheless the moment did rather sum up Tottenham under their new coach Igor Tudor. Directionless, hopeless and lost.
It was bad under Thomas Frank and he did have to go as Spurs drifted towards the bottom three. But Tottenham have undoubtedly got worse in two games under Tudor and one wonders now whether the club will have a decision to make if they crash and burn again at home to Crystal Palace on Thursday.
Does that sound dramatic and sensationalist after two games? It does, rather. But, equally, can they let this go on?
I havenāt seen either match but you can get a sense from as little as two matches if the team is completely fucked which is what you seem to be suggesting here.
They need to think of the Man Utd/Carrick model. It may not last forever but it would keep them up.
Those were the comments at the end of the piece in the Mail, not my comments. I do have a certain amount of sympathy for Tudor. Heās come in and found out that it is way worse of a sh*t show than he had factored in. As against that, he seems to trade off the name as some sort of short-term fix specialist guru, who gets an immediate reaction. He doesnāt really need to be telling the world as to everything that is wrong with Spurs. We know all that already and donāt disagree with him either. Heās there for a quick-fix solution to paper over the cracks and stave off relegation.
If he canāt achieve that shock therapy, well then he probably is under immediate threat. The game against Crystal Palace on Thursday night at home is huge. He will at least get that, Iād imagine. Thatās one of the games you would be earmarking as a chance of a win. 6 points from last 9 games would go a long way towards staying up. When you have only picked up 4 points in 10 games in 2026 though, are the only team without a win in the league in 2026 and on the joint longest run of league games without a win for the club in 91 years since 1935, you would be starting to wonder, will we win again this season.
The clowns that are calling the shots have really only woken up in the last few weeks to danger signs that a lot of Spurs fans were seeing at Christmas that Spurs were sliding into a relegation battle for which they were hopelessly equipped. They wanted to limp on to the end of season with Frank and re-assess then. The sheer toxicity and the looming spectre of relegation after the home defeat to Newcastle forced a change on that front. The chat going around is relegation could cost the club Ā£250 million. Thereās full scale panic now amongst a hierarchy, who havenāt a clue what they are doing to begin with. They wonāt hang around with Tudor for long unless he gets a win, fairly pronto.
Iād get Arry and Tiger Tim in until the end of the season if there is to be another change.
Jim Smith might have passed away a few years ago. Aside from that minor detail, great shout. Jim Smith would have been perfect for this particular assignment and would have kept us up.
How is Big Ron doing these days? Heās probably about 90 now but would be another really good fit.
