Season 2008-09 Premier League Tottenham – P8 W0 D2 L6 F5 A12 Pts2 Position: 20th out of 20. Uefa Cup, group D Tottenham – P1 W0 D0 L1 F0 A2 Pts0 Position: 5th out of 5. Tottenham have won six out of 25 competitive matches since lifting the Carling Cup in February.
And so it continues. Spurs lost 2-1 to Stoke on Sunday, confirming that what began as a loss of form and a bad run has now become a fully blown crisis. Teams sometimes play poorly for a period, or suffer some bad luck, or have unwelcome injuries, and results go against them. Sometimes it takes [...]
Again, a laughing stock. Interestingly… 2 – The number of clubs out of the 92 in the Football League yet to win a league game this season. Grimsby are one. The other reside in North London.
After gloriously, temporarily sitting in a Champions League spot, Hull are now revelling in 7th place. Man Utd sit in a lowly 15th, with 5 points from 4 matches. Hull, 10,000-1, are 8 places ahead of Man Utd, who were 6-4. Also, brilliantly, Spurs are now two points adrift at the bottom of the table. [...]
You just have to laugh at them. Four games in, one point. They have spent so much money yet find themselves behind everyone. Rock bottom. Brilliant. Also, something that indicates a deeper malaise, they have not scored two goals in a league match since a couple of months before the end of last season!
