If you can’t stand the heat

How many will be getting out of this particular kitchen? Christian Eriksen for certain. Jan Vertonghen must be considering it. Alderweireld? Pochettino?

The hard truth about a season already in considerable tatters is that Spurs have played six halves. Three were miserable exercises at our swanky new ground against promoted or winless sides. In two others we were flat dominated by the best team in the league. In one thirty minute stretch we played like we belonged in the elite of England and Europe. And that is it. The truth is pretty inescapable—this is an average team with very little understanding of how to win games or break down defences. Whether it can be much more than that is an open question—one painful reality that last season’s m...