STAMFORD BRIDGE – It is never wise to celebrate too early. Winning the lottery before the cheque has cleared. Fancying yourself to have signed Eberechi Eze before the paperwork is finished. Or believing you have stayed up at the expense of a West Ham side who have inexplicably proven even more chaotic.
For Tottenham, every one of those anxieties, every imaginable kind of neuroses will follow them into the final day of the season. It bears repeating: Tottenham Hotspur will go into the last gasps of this campaign of misery fighting for their Premier League lives.
Whatever happens next, that is a damning indictment of an appalling situation which may yet turn into a catastrophe for this grand old football team.
A glimmer of hope
Those Spurs supporters crammed into a corner of Stamford Bridge hoped they had suffered enough indignities for one evening upon hearing news of Arsenal’s coronation, a sorrow they have not had to endure for 22 years. It was about to get even worse.
We do not yet know whether Chelsea will welcome them again next season, or whether they will tour the string of teams definitely consigned to the Championship: Portsmouth, Preston… Southampton.
Do not rule out Spurs suffering their darkest day on Sunday (Photo: Reuters)But in the present day the Bridge was treated to an exquisite effort from Enzo Fernandez, hit with his left to leave a powerless Antonin Kinsky – in goal over a fit again Guglielmo Vicario – rooted to the spot. In the away end, heads wilted into shaking hands as Randal Kolo Muani’s careless pass set away Cole Palmer to spark the move for Andrey Santos and Chelsea’s second.
In Richarlison, there is always hope. Without him Tottenham would have been gone long ago. He picked the ball out of the net in a gesture to epitomise Spurs’ current feel: they are not finished, it is not over, but goodness, are they in a bad way.
A treacherous race to the bottom
Their record here is so abject the pain was simultaneously familiar and newly injurious. When Roberto De Zerbi’s men face Everton on Sunday they will begin two points clear of West Ham, who play Leeds.
Even if they are favourites to escape, for a group who have looked so fragile and bereft of confidence as this one there are no guarantees of the point they need.
And ultimately that is the logical outcome of this treacherous race to the bottom, where trying to run your football club mildly better than David Sullivan is the aim. De Zerbi has injected bite but that is the minimum requirement and has not yet overridden the most glaring issue – a simple lack of quality going forward. Kolo Muani and Mathys Tel took turns blazing over. “That’s why you’re going down,” delighted the Chelsea fans.
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Pete Hall: Aston Villa and Newcastle lead four-way race for £40m goalkeeper Michael Hincks: The cost of Tottenham relegation: 75% pay cuts, key sales and £200m lostThat darkest of chapters in Tottenham’s history may not materialise. Relegation would be utterly unthinkable. Yet if you were to peruse the results of a team who failed to win a game between 28 December and 25 April, it is undeniable how terrifyingly fine they are cutting it.
In the desperate tension of the dying minutes, there was no full reenactment of the Battle of the Bridge but the reality of that ominous plight was setting in.
Should the worst happen, this will have been a demise inflicted not here at Stamford Bridge but in a north London boardroom over years of neglect and complacency. Tottenham have 90 minutes to save themselves from their own shadow.
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