The first 21 minutes of Tottenham's 6-1 loss to Newcastle on Sunday were many different things. Abysmal. Catastrophic. Mortifying. Hilarious. so forth.
However, a lot of reporters, analysts, and laughing ordinary observers made a mistake that no Spurs supporter was at that same moment making. Words like 'nadir' and careless phrases like 'rock bottom' were thrown around carelessly. Longtime Spurs fans were baffled by the apparent belief that Spurs' 5-0 deficit after 21 minutes in the season's pivotal league encounter might be the worst thing that could happen to them.
Really remarkable that there are still so many adorable summer kids playing in English football.
This is Spurs. Of course that’s not rock bottom. It’s never rock bottom. This is the darkest timeline and things are only getting started.
A day later, Spurs chairman Daniel Levy had to sack the interim manager he’d appointed a month earlier, after sacking Antonio Conte but leaving his mate who agrees with all Conte’s ideas in place had bafflingly solved none of the problems. The announcement was made by the ludicrous and objectively hilarious medium of a ‘Club update from Daniel’. We’d love to know how close they came to going with ‘Danny’ there to make him sound even more human.
That was a necessary step, but still a humiliating one. Interim managers are quite often out of the job within a month, but very rarely because of results.

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