No manager, a fading top-four challenge and a home defeat to relegation candidates. Modern football protocol dictates such a state of affairs will lead to a club’s ownership being targeted. Calls for Daniel Levy to step aside are not uncommon at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, but they have become especially loud from the White Wall Stand when Spurs are losing.
As fans peeled to the exits after a solo goal by Burkina Faso’s Dango Ouattara, surging past a labouring Pierre-Emile Højbjerg in the final seconds, the chants resumed, but with added venom. Like the Glazers at Old Trafford and FSG at Anfield, Levy and the Enic Group felt the white heat of failure. Even if Tottenham’s defeat could be explained by poor finishing, absent-minded defending and the excellence of an inspired, disciplined Bournemouth, the money men, the ownership, were castigated as the root cause.
