At the start of last season, Tottenham Hotspur were ranked by England’s leading soccer think tank as the “best run club” across the nation’s entire pyramid. Less than two years later, they are staring down the barrel of a first relegation in almost half a century.
The prospect of this catastrophic demise is writ large across the faces of Tottenham’s fans (and Xavi Simons) after each bungled result inches them closer to the drop. Yet, the most obvious impact of relegation will be spelled out in black, white and (mostly) red across the club’s accounts.
