Fulham Broadway 17,810 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 They deserve to be relegated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,871 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Tune into Talksport now and listen to Cundy with O'Hara It's fucking golden, please tune in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fulham Broadway 17,810 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Classic Its another case of 'profit first, football, yeah whatever' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 19,379 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 I still just find it impossible to think that they’ll actually go down. They’ll surely survive by the skin of their teeth somehow. Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 1 hour ago, nyikolajevics said: Do you really want them to get relegated? No doubt it would be funny for a while, but for the league it would be much better if they stayed up. I'd rather watch Spurs(especially against other big6 teams) than Nottingham. just for one season that is enough to hang it over them for the next 25 or more years, lolol Fernando and nyikolajevics 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Just now, Pizy said: I still just find it impossible to think that they’ll actually go down. They’ll surely survive by the skin of their teeth somehow. the same was said over and over in-season when Leicester won the EPL title Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 19,379 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 11 minutes ago, Vesper said: the same was said over and over in-season when Leicester won the EPL title Leicester at least had a couple of generational players in their team and the PL level was poor at the time. Spuds going down with the squad they have would be even more shocking than Leicester winning the league for me. Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,871 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Cundy and O'Hara now on Talksport live pplease tune in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vytis33 1,409 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 2,832 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 9 hours ago, whats happening said: man it would be funny if xavi simons ends up playing championship next season This is hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,529 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Imagine Arsenal season. Winning title finally and your heated rival relegated. It makes it worth suffering for 20+ years. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Igor Tudor enacts hollow role in the most stupid of hires with Tottenham too bad to stay up The problem here is not the interim manager, it’s the ad hoc interim ownership and the short-term sense of identity at this ghost town club https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/05/igor-tudor-tottenham-crystal-palace-premier-league-relegation Tudor is to do. To do is to dur. Something like that anyway. With the clock reading 45+8 at the end of the first half the air inside the Tottenham Hotspur stadium had already begun to curdle and turn strange. In the space of 18 minutes, 1-0 to Spurs had become 3-1 to Crystal Palace. The crowd had begun to turn in on itself. Boos were directed at the players. Boos were directed back at the booers. Birds flew backwards through the sky. The clock struck 13. Beer glasses filled from the bottom up. “You killed the club,” man in a quilted coat shouted at the directors’ box, with genuine feeling, as though this was not a figure of speech, the club actually was dead, before stamping off towards the thrillingly alive empanada and artisan pickle outlets of the vibrant new retail concourse. “I saw something here,” Igor Tudor would announce at the end of this game, sat looking hollow and pale and haunted in the luxuriously upholstered situation room in the pit of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. But what exactly? Has there been a stranger, more inexplicable managerial avatar than Tudor in recent times. This was his night-time debut at this ground. In the flesh Tudor is surprisingly lean and gangly, with deep piercing eyes, angular jawline, renaissance-style spiky chin whiskers, car coat and leather leisure-trainers, like a Tuscan Duke on his way to a corporate golf day. And he played his part here, enacting the role of Tottenham manager. Watching the figures on that touchline come and go has been a ghostly thing in its own right, a flick-book of pressed men, desperados, hollow-eyed ancient mariners, coats and jackets and gilets, fading out even as they faded in. Could Tudor leave here before his assistant Ivan Javorcic has even managed to get his work permit? His reply to that question was “no comment”. More to the point, are Tottenham going to be relegated? The run is now at seven losses, four draws, no wins in the league this year – 29 points. One above the zone. Liverpool next week. Spurs with their missing players, who are also their best players, might be too good to go down. The current version is, frankly, too bad to stay up. Although here they started well enough before game turned at the end of a mild, meandering opening half hour. First Crystal Palace had a goal ruled out because Ismaïla Sarr’s face was offside. Nose, eyes, mouth. It took four minutes to determine the face-offside. But who knows, his face may have been gaining an advantage. A minute later, Tottenham scored, Dominic Solanke thumping in a low Archie Gray cross. Tudor punched the air and carried out a series of chest-bumps with men in tracksuits. And shortly after that, the world fell in. Micky van de Ven being sent off. Is this the worst thing that could happen to Spurs here? Actually no. Van de Ven sent off and a penalty conceded. Van de Ven had tugged Sarr’s arm as he hared in on goal. He protested a lot. Maybe just don’t grab his arm. Sarr buried the kick. Tudor sat scratching his chin and looking really really filthy, the look of a man who has somehow found himself stranded at a children’s soft play party and is now going to have to sit there for the next six hours. In added time it was 2-1 Palace, made by a lovely little through dink from Adam Wharton for Jørgen Strand Larsen to finish. Sarr made it three. And that was pretty much that. “Why are you so shit?” the Palace fans asked as the game entered its final stretch of time simply passing. It is a very good question deserving of a serious answer. Spurs are not bad because of the current almost incidental manager-style human. They’re bad because of the causes of Igor Tudor, and those stretch right back up the arm. The Tudor hire demonstrates the stupidity of so many footballing appointments. It is hard to think of a more stupid one than this. Stupid because it claimed to have some kind of logic to it. Tudor is, we hear, a short-term specialist. He has impact. This is his record. Is it though? This is how football lets itself down, reveals the weakness of its workings. This is like hiring a manager who has previously won a game in March against a team in blue, or a manager in a brown coat because the best managers wear brown coats. What is the exact logic here? Is he? He’s definitely had a lot of jobs. But Lazio and Udinese are nothing like Spurs. These are entirely separate entities and circumstances. “Different team, different league, different position, different players,” Tudor sighed when asked about this. Although presumably not at his interview. So The Tudor vibe has been the unblinking eye, tough love. It’s good to get someone in who tells it like it is. Unless the it in question is best left unsaid for all eternity. Tell it like it isn’t. Lie to me Igor. At the weekend, Tudor said Tottenham’s players were deficient in only three things, defence, attack and midfield. He gave more detail. The players were also weak, un-skilled and not very bright. Is this helpful? It is of course understandable. A temporary manager is always looking to the next job. And of course, the problem here is not the interim manager, it’s the ad hoc interim ownership, the interim sense of identity, the interim suits in the interim director’s box, the interim sense of care for anything but the commercial project. This feels like a ghost town already, so much so that by the end even the booing had something empty about it, a sense that it might even be disappointing if Spurs don’t go down now; that everyone in this vast sporting unit, would at least get to feel something, that the pain is at least a story, grand and wild and out there, still football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,871 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Can you imagine if we relegate Spurs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 Gareth Bale: Real Madrid Reality, Turning Down United & Life With Ronaldo | Stick to Football 119 1,001,385 views 5 Mar 2026 Stick to Football Welcome back to a huge episode of Stick to Football, brought to you by ARNE. Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Jill Scott, Roy Keane and Ian Wright are joined by former Southampton, Spurs, Real Madrid and Wales star Gareth Bale for a fascinating look back at his incredible career. We dive into the reality of playing for Real Madrid, the pressure that comes with the badge and what it was really like sharing a dressing room with Cristiano Ronaldo & Co. under Zinedine Zidane. And yes, the golf debate makes an appearance too. Bale also reflects on his rise to superstardom at Tottenham, revealing that a move to Manchester United was on the table not once, but twice. From Champions League glory to leading Wales on the international stage, he opens up on the highs, the scrutiny and life after football, including his spell in MLS and what keeps him busy now. Who is the greatest Welsh footballer of all time? Let us know in the comments and don’t forget to like and subscribe so you never miss an episode of The Overlap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Who has the most unbearable fanbase in the Premier League... and why is it Arsenal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 19,379 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 1 hour ago, Vesper said: Who has the most unbearable fanbase in the Premier League... and why is it Arsenal? Arse are a close 2nd to Liverpool for me. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 89th minute pen on Fulham in a nil nil v SOTON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 nil 1 SOTON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 I know I am likely the only one here (or at least one of the few) who loves the FA Cup the League Cup, meh but The FA Cup is special at least IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 31,181 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 all credit to the SOTON travelling fans they have had some shit teams over the past years, but they are dominating Craven Cottage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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