Sunday’s 2-1 loss to Leicester has left Tottenham precariously sitting above the Premier League drop zone on the precipice of crisisAnd so it has come to this. Little over five years ago, Tottenham Hotspur were 90 minutes away from being crowned champions of Europe for the first time in their history. Even in eventual and perhaps predictable defeat, they had the hope of a bright future to look forward to having just moved into their new billion-pound stadium designed to close the gap on the elite.Half a decade on, it’s now a very real possibility that Spurs will soon be playing in the Championship. The fall from grace has been painful for all involved. Think of Homer Simpson attempting to fly across Springfield Gorge on Bart’s skateboard, only for gravity to hurl him down the cliff-face, hitting every jagged rock on his way to the bottom. He’s airlifted to an ambulance, which promptly crashes into a tree and he topples out the wrecked vehicle back down the same cliff-face on a stretcher. That’s the state of Tottenham right now.At the time of writing, the Lilywhites sit 15th in the Premier League table having accrued a mere 24 points from 23 games – a tally which they cleared during the first 10 games of last season upon Ange Postecoglou’s arrival. Ipswich Town are the only other club in the bottom five to have not changed their manager to this point, and that’s down to the credit Kieran McKenna has stored in the bank following successive promotions.The problems in N17 go beyond the man in the dugout, however. Postecoglou is not blameless, but he is definitely not the main reason why Tottenham are side-eyeing the second tier.Follow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱
