Just when you think it can’t get worse for Tottenham Hotspur under Angel Postcoglou, this is the case.
A 2-1 home defeat against a bad and bad Leicester team represented another Nadir in what was an atrocious 2024/25 campaign for the Lilywhites. A mountain of injuries means that spurs are down their bare bones, those currently available without position to execute the idealistic principles of their manager twice a week.
The club insists that they are held by Postcoglou and will continue to support it, but their inactivity on the winter transfers market suggests that they rather want to hang it to dry. The Greek-Australian coach is far from impeccable, but the help is necessary and it simply does not have one this month.
Tottenham’s disappearance means that the idea of relegation is suddenly not laughing. Instead of competing with Newcastle and Chelsea for a place in the Champions League, the Spurs hope that Ipswich and Wolves abandon points so that they can stay in the division.
Their current points per match depict the darkest images, with spurs on the pace for a final point from 40 (39.7).
Martin Jol remains an affectionately recalled figure in N17, the Dutch coach helping the Spurs to escape the troubled depths of the Jacques Santini era and to turn towards the top of the Premier League table.
They approached a few times to guarantee their first taste for football in the Champions League with Jol at the helm, but he was dropped three years in work and replaced by Juande Ramos in October 2007.
Ramos arrived with a great reputation, but the way of Jol’s departure left a bitter taste and the supporters had trouble going to Spanish. Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane continued to work their magic at the top, but their league campaign was indifferent when they finished the 2007/08 season in 11th with 46 points.
Their final victory of the Chelsea League Cup in Wembley remains the last hilk -piece of the club.
There was no saving grace for the Gerry Francis team in 1996/97, with spurs that find it difficult to bring together the note races in the middle of a forgetable league season.
Francis had done a decent job in northern London, but his third season at the helm was a separate regression. After barely missing a UEFA cutting berth in the two previous campaigns, the Spurs sank in the tenth after raising 46 points.
They enjoyed themselves on the poor and rarely presented themselves against some of the strongest outfits in the division, with a 7-1 defeat in Newcastle United in late December representing the low point of the campaign.
The Spurs have never won more than two championship games on the rebound, and Teddy Sheringham led the club ranking with only eight goals in all competitions.
Tottenham’s current misfortunes are not helped by the fact that the rivals of northern London Arsenal are quite good. Fortunately, the Gunners are not levels of good from 2003/04.
2003/04 must rank among the darkest in the modern history of the Spurs since their 14th place in the Premier League came while Arsenal launched into a Invincible campaign. It would have been pretty bad, but allow Arsène Wenger’s supreme outfit to win the League title to White Hart Lane was the ultimate kick in the teeth.
The 2-2 draw of Spurs in the Northern London derby intervened in the middle of a race without a victory of eight games, but they at least finished the season with consecutive victories against Blackburn and Wolves, helping them until at 45 points.
After supervising a regressive season from 1996/97, the writing was on the Francis wall after the Spurs began the next campaign with 14 points from as many games. Francis resigned after a 4-0 defeat in Anfield, with participations in White Hart Lane falling up to 25,000 people for home defeats 1-0 against Leeds and Crystal Palace in November.
Their terrible start to the campaign made them a relegation competitor, but the return of the cult hero Jurgen Klinsmann after Christian Gross replaced Francis offered the Lilywhites Hope. The German superstar was down and the magic indices of three seasons previously dissipated, but Klinsmann nevertheless finished 1997/98 as top scorer in Tottenham in the Premier League with nine goals.
A regular race to finish the season made it possible to beat the drop with a certain ease, but their transport of 44 points remains the lowest of the Spurs in a season of 38 games.
We had to make an adjustment of the points per game here, because the 1993/94 Tottenham campaign must be recognized as their worst in the history of the Premier League.
The Spurs ended the 42 -game season with 45 points – 1.07 points per game, which works at 40.7 on 38 games.
Les Ardiles d’Ossie adored took the reins after Terry Venables controversially received his walking orders, and a feeling of excitement prevailed on White Hart Lane while the former Argentinian midfielder promised to register a Glorious football brand capable of returning the Lilywhites to the promised lands.
Spurs scored more than one goal per game, on average, but they tended to ship more. Ardiles was not helped by the injury problems of Teddy Sheringham, and it took a 2-0 victory to Oldham Athletic during the penultimate week of the season to ensure that they stayed in the ‘elite. The Argentinian played a key role in bringing him Klinsmann to the club before the following season, but Ardiles never succeeded in England after leaving the Spurs in October 1994.
