Relegation battle has exposed Spurs’ institutional flaws but fans aside, few at the club seem to care about going down
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robably Tim Sherwood put it best, speaking on Sky Sports about the through-the-looking-glass world of Tottenham Hotspur and magic bean relegation remedies. “They need an arm round the shoulder,” Sherwood said. “I’d tell Xavi Simons he’s the new Luka Modric. Obviously he’s not but I’d tell him he was. I’d tell him: ‘Save us from relegation and you can go to Real Madrid next season.’ Obviously he won’t but I’d tell him that.”
Sherwood has had a good Tottenham crisis period. “The Premier League has smacked him in the mouth,” was his verdict on Igor Tudor, pre-sacking. While every proper football man will like the sound of this, of the Premier League being large and unassailable, Tudor deserves a little sympathy.
Only the hardest heart could fail to wish Spurs’ latest ex-interim well as he departs the job that should never have been. Hopefully, he will now have time to collect himself, to settle in somewhere more suitable and sane (ie, anywhere). Perhaps the internet will even grant him the right to be forgotten, his entire 44‑day Tottenham spell expunged from human history. The man has suffered enough.
