Sarr sinks 10-man Spurs as Crystal Palace plunge imploding club closer to relegation

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by Jacob Steinberg at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

March 5, 2026

Tottenham are sinking in a sea of venom. Relegation is no longer a distant prospect for the owners of the country’s best and costliest stadium. On the contrary, it is all getting all too real. Tottenham have rolled the dice, replacing a bedraggled Thomas Frank with a bewildered Igor Tudor, but they are only a point above the bottom three and offered absolutely no evidence that they are capable of arresting the slide during this shambolic defeat to Crystal Palace. It was quite the evening at the ground where the fans hate the players, the players hate the fans and everybody hates the board. Micky van de Ven wore the captain’s armband and was sent off with Tottenham somehow in possession of a 1-0 lead. By half-time there was an argument that the Tudor experiment had already run its course. There has been no new manager bounce since the Croatian’s arrival. Tottenham have been well beaten in each of their three games under their interim and in the absence of anything resembling a new manager bounce there is a clear case for drastic action to be taken before all hope is lost. Continue reading...

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Originally published on Guardian Sport on 3/5/2026