John Brewin

And it's created this great big vacuum in the Premier League.

The resolution has to happen and it's going to hurt someone.

And it's going to hurt the Premier League brand, but of course they're concerned over whether it affects TV contracts, it affects marketing of the product because it affects the broadcast of the Premier League years.

Do they have to re-dub and re-edit these things to say, oh, well, actually Manchester City were not the title winners that year?

The thing is, I suppose you look at the example of Leicester, who are likely to get relegated from the...

The Championship, you know, 10 years after winning the title, and you'd think that's the way it cannot go.

And Tottenham are significantly financially stronger than Leicester, though do have a big mortgage to pay on a relatively new stadium.

But being relegated to the second division classically has sometimes brought a club back together.

So if you talk to old school Manchester United fans, relegation to the second division, 74-5, was the greatest season of their lives.

They enjoyed it and it gave the club this...

this feeling of togetherness and Manchester City fans, you know, linking away a fixture that Tottenham are likely to play next season is, you know, is the ultimate gold standard of being a City fan when they were back in League One, as it is now.

And maybe, and this is the thing with Tottenham, is that it's become a disparate infighting group within the club from what we hear today.

The organisation is not great and a lot of people are reaching for the rubber dinghy, to use Brian Kidd's old phrase.

And perhaps retrenchment in the second division with Roberto Di Zerbi as inspirational leader can produce a new Tottenham.

And that's probably about as positive an outlook as you can put on it.

And it's not impossible.