Tottenham Hotspur are the laughingstock of the Premier League right now. Spurs supporters are feeling what Schalke, Hertha Berlin, Bordeaux, Hamburg, Saint Etienne, and so many other fan bases around Europe have felt when their giant clubs started teetering on the brink after years of mismanagement. Nobody in the building listened to their frustrations, and now the Tottenham faithful are the ones meant to pay.
After losing 1-0 to Sunderland over the Premier League weekend while West Ham United trounced Wolves in their relegation six pointer, the Lilywhites sit in the bottom three and, at this point, look like they are "comfortably" headed straight to the bottom.
There is no pundit in England who does a better job of telling it like it is, and if he ruffles feathers, then that is because the people listening to him are not ready to confront the reality. Tottenham Hotspur fans, however, have been confronting their own club's incompetence for years, so Jamie Carragher's honest, scathing critique of the Lilywhites will not come as an offense.
Tottenham's winless streak is staggering
The former Liverpool defender said on Sky Sports, "No club in the Premier League should be going without a win for this long, it's not acceptable."
Carragher acknowledged that, yes, Tottenham have had a lot of injuries, but his assessment, obvious as it may be, was absolutely spot on. Spurs are not showing enough fight, and for the stature of this club and for the players that they do have who have been healthy for most of this season, the results they are turning in are beyond appalling. Finally, Carragher made the assertion that it's clearly not an issue of coaching and that there is a deeper problem, seeing as how Spurs have been cycling through managers with no change in results.
Roberto De Zerbi definitely has his work cut out for him, that's for sure, but it really is insane to think that Tottenham, one of the Big Six clubs of the Premier League and one of the 10 biggest in terms of revenue in the world, have not won a single league game since Dec. 28 when they barely eeked a 1-0 out of Crystal Palace.
In the entire calendar year, in three and a half months of matches, Spurs cannot get a single win despite having their backs to the wall and now three coaches in that period of time. Winless in their last 14 Premier League fixtures, Spurs look exactly like a team that deserves to go down.