Chris Coles

So there have been no Dejan Kuliseski, no James Madison.

Two key players for Tottenham.

And throughout the season, they've been without some of their key players aside from those two.

There's no Christian Romero now for the rest of the season.

big player at the back so they've not been helped by injuries but they've certainly not been helped by decisions off the field and for whatever reason that the hierarchy have just not been able to to find a direction of travel that everyone is happy with and it's why they're in this perilous position with so few games to go yeah so they haven't been relegated from the top flight in england since 1976-77 i remember a few years ago when newcastle got relegated and it

this is a question, Tom, that I think you could probably ask every single Spurs fan.

And I think you'd probably get an answer that went both ways.

I don't think Angie's tenure here will ever be unanimously agreed upon as a success or as a failure, which on the face of it is a bit ridiculous because of the success he clearly had winning the Europa League.

And that was a massive deal for Tottenham.

We talk about perennial top five, top six challengers.

they were perennial underachievers in cup competitions and and you'll be fully aware of the of the spursy line that always came tottenham's way when they kept on on on failing to win trophies now angie delivers a massive trophy the europa league is a huge european trophy

And obviously then gets jettisoned because of the league form.

Now, clearly looking back and you think, well, Ang's tenure was clearly a success because of winning the Europa League and the club didn't get relegated.

And Ang, as I'm sure he did on your program, as he has done in this country when he's been on podcasts, has said, listen, there's a reason we finished so low down the table.

Look at the teams that I played in the last few games of the season.

I was obviously focusing on the Europa League title.

I suspect that most fans will look at the Ange sacking and think it was probably, and maybe looking at the table now, harsh.

And it would be seen as the right thing to do had Thomas Frank come in and steered the club to a mid-table position.

But because that didn't happen and because the managerial appointment's

post Ange and post Thomas Frank and post Igor Chu there just haven't worked.