Football
Struggling West Ham offer Tottenham chance to deliver on Ange Postecoglou words
And so after the highs of Thursday night, Tottenham turn their attention back to the Premier League — a competition in which they have seemed cursed this season — and to a match dubbed online as ‘El S**tico’ in some places and ‘El Cra*ico’ in others. Whichever you prefer, you no doubt get the picture.
A London derby against West Ham on a sunlit Sunday afternoon ought to be an occasion both sets of fans feels they can get well up for. Instead, West Ham supporters seem at the end of their tether with Graham Potter’s struggling Hammers, perhaps preferring the thought of starting the summer holidays a month or two early and already with full focus on next season and righting the wrongs of this torrid campaign.
Spurs have occupied this strange place for weeks now — a succession of season-defining Thursday nights against AZ Alkmaar (away), AZ Alkmaar (home), Eintracht Frankfurt (home), Eintracht Frankfurt (away) and Bodo/Glimt (home) having all been potentially terminal nights but Spurs through them all unscathed.
