Now the curtain has come down on the 2025-26 Premier League campaign, here is my end-of-season review – with a look back to what I predicted in August.
Prediction: 8th
As big a shambles as it is possible to imagine – on and off the field. Reduced to celebrating Premier League survival on the season’s final day with victory over Everton.
The job proved too much for Thomas Frank, who found the expectations and dysfunction of Tottenham a sharp contrast to the stability of Brentford.
Just when you thought it could not get worse, matters hit a new low with the bizarre appointment of Igor Tudor, an arrival that posed serious questions of CEO Vinai Venkatesham and sporting director Johan Lange.
Tudor lost five of his seven games before he left after 44 days, to be replaced by Roberto de Zerbi.
Spurs escaped at the 11th hour, but it was a reprieve borne of luck more than judgement.
What I said in August: “It could not get worse than last season – or Spurs would find themselves in the Championship.”
