Eighteen months can be a very long time in football – especially if you are still a teenager.
After a mixed start to life in north London, Archie Gray could not have picked a better occasion to score his first Tottenham goal since joining from Leeds in the summer of 2024 than his 60th appearance. With Thomas Frank already showing signs of not being the first Spurs manager to have been overwhelmed by expectations, after a run of just one win in their previous eight Premier League matches, Gray’s scrappy header in the first half ensured a topsy-turvy year ended with a victory that lifts his side to within one point of Crystal Palace in the table.
