Never again. That felt the sentiment when Tottenham finished 17th for a second successive season. After a summer of record-breaking, image-shattering, team-reshaping spending, they are not 17th any more. Although, admittedly, they are 20th.
They did start the season there, too, albeit only on alphabetical order after the relegations of Wolves and West Ham. But now, as the last team in the table and the last side in the country to score a league goal, Roberto De Zerbi’s team have contrived to make a spectacularly bad start to the season.
