Why Tottenham really could go down: An injury-plagued team out on their feet, the huge decision that looms for Spurs board and a make or break moment rapidly approaching for Ange Postecoglou, writes MATT BARLOW
Why Tottenham really could go down: An injury-plagued team out on their feet, the huge decision that looms for Spurs board and a make or break moment rapidly approaching for Ange Postecoglou, writes MATT BARLOW
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Tottenham’s form is, without dispute, relegation form. They have been collecting points at an average below 0.5 per game for two months. Carry on at that rate over the final 15 games of the Premier League season and they will barely break 30 points, which would have been enough to survive last season but usually isn’t.
![[Postecoglou confronted a fan who screamed at him while he went down the tunnel on Sunday]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/17/94568161-14330435-image-a-36_1738000359867.jpg)
They appear trapped in what clever clogs former Spurs head coach Andre Villas-Boas liked to call a negative downward spiral and fear of the inconceivable is starting to take a grip on their long-suffering supporters. ‘You’re going to f***ing take us down,’ one fan screamed at Ange Postecoglou as he trudged down the tunnel after Sunday’s defeat at home by Leicester.
![[There is still time for Postecoglou to turn this season around, especially in the cups]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/17/94568167-14330435-image-a-37_1738000432605.jpg)
‘We’re going down with you, we’re going to be in the Championship like this’, it went on, prompting Postecoglou to perform an amusing rewind manoeuvre as if he might be up for a confrontation, before quickly realising that the better option was to make himself scarce.
![[Van de Ven (left) and Romero are vital to Postecoglou but have been out since December]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/21/94568203-14330435-Van_de_Ven_left_and_Romero_are_vital_to_Postecoglou_but_have_bee-m-10_1738012020399.jpg)
It was all caught on camera and shared on social media where a vocal minority can distort the truth, but there can be no denying faith in the Big Ange project has taken a battering this season. It cannot help that they have not won a league game in front of their own supporters for getting on for three months, losing five and drawing two at home since then.
![[Spurs have been repeatedly rocked by injuries, leaving behind a young, tired squad]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/27/17/94568137-14330435-image-a-38_1738000435455.jpg)
