Cristian Stellini said he hoped Tottenham’s humiliation at Newcastle was solely down to his decision to change formation, but the truth is that a capitulation on this scale goes far deeper than naive tactics.
There is something rotten at the heart of Tottenham, and the opening 21 minutes of yesterday’s 6-1 defeat were remarkable and wholly predictable in equal measure — a long overdue consequence of years of mismanagement from the top down, overseen by chairman Daniel Levy.
