BBC Broadcaster Chris Coles | A fascinating end awaits in the EPL (15.04.26)
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What are the current standings in the English Premier League?
Plenty of round ball news as well. Let's head to the UK to chat some English Premier League.
Well, the English Premier League is reaching a torturous climax for Tottenham with six games to go. Spurs, well, they're outright third last. It's April 15, and their last league win was December 29. Of course, we have a vested interest in Spurs because of Ange Postacoglu's stint there. But at the top of the table, Arsenal had a slip-up to Bournemouth. They're still six points clear on top, followed by Manchester City, Manchester United and Aston Villa to round out the four with Liverpool in fifth. To bring us up to speed is a very good friend of SCN, BBC broadcaster Chris Coles. Chris, where do we find you this afternoon?
Hello, Tom.
Why is Tottenham facing a potential relegation battle?
I am right in the middle of the country, just outside Nottingham and looking forward to Well, I'm actually watching Forest quite a bit over the next few days, watching them at Porto in the Europa League. Then I'm watching a big game for them against Burnley. So, yeah, it's going to be a fascinating final few weeks, isn't it?
Well, I say this afternoon, it's actually morning here and it's probably evening for you. So I appreciate you. joining us to have a chat about the round ball game. Can we start with Tottenham? As I said, we've got a vested interest in what's going on there. We know that they're in the drop zone at the moment. We also know that their league form has been horrible for the best part of four months. What's your prognosis? What's going on?
It has been a staggering story this, Tom, as I'm sure many of you guys have been right across because of Angie's links. And really, you can pinpoint Spurs' downfall to arguably the moment that Ange Postakoglu left because he left Spurs as Europa League winners, as we know. Now, they didn't finish particularly high in the Premier League last season, but it was thought that with the appointment of Thomas Frank, who at the time seemed a very shrewd appointment, the former Brentford manager, he would guide Spurs to calmer waters. And it just hasn't happened. They've lurched from one disaster to the next. Thomas Frank just didn't work. I think fans, by the end of his tenure... were a bit frustrated by his negativity.
They didn't like the fact that Spurs at home in particular weren't playing on the front foot. They weren't playing the kind of football that Ange had Spurs playing, which was this really entertaining front-footed attacking football. But then what happened next was just a disaster from a Spurs perspective with the managerial appointments that just weren't working. And most recently, Igor Chudis come in for four or five games and had an appalling time at Tottenham and now they're in this position where they've got four or five games of the season to go and they've brought in Roberto de Zerbi who on the face of it is a very good appointment but he's got so little time to turn around this juggernaut of a football club who could be facing relegation which would be catastrophic for them financially and
Bear in mind, this is a team that were Europa League winners. They were Champions League finalists not so long ago. Perennial top five, top six challenges in the Premier League. One of the best stadiums in world football. And they could be playing in the second tier. It has just been a disaster. Now, Spurs fans will point to a few things. Injuries have not helped. 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
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