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Tottenham chief executive Vinai Venkatesham has given a damning assessment of former chairman Daniel Levy’s running of the club, after outlining a list of problems he believes he inherited at the club.

Levy left Tottenham after nearly 25 years back in September, with the long-serving chairman declaring that the club had been built into a ‘global heavyweight competing at the highest level’ upon his departure.

The 64-year-old was ousted just months after the appointment of Venkatesham, who joined Tottenham last April.

Significant concerns were raised by Tottenham’s Fan Advisory Board over Spurs league position at a meeting with the club on March 3 – two days before a 3-1 home defeat to Crystal Palace left them one point above the relegation zone.

In minutes from the meeting, which have been published by Spurs, outlined a series of damning criticisms over the state of the club.

‘VV explained that since joining the club in June 2025, there has been a comprehensive review of the organisation to determine the issues and actions required,’ the minutes read.

‘He explained that whilst he had a perspective of the club from the outside, it is only after spending time inside the club you can fully understand strengths, areas to improve and remedial actions needed.

‘While the club has made strong progress in areas such as the stadium, training facilities, commercial growth and stadium operations, several areas were identified as falling short of what is required to compete at the highest level.’

Key issues identified included ‘Insufficient focus across the organisation on on-pitch success, a lack of specialist expertise in certain areas and insufficient empowerment of experts in others, and a wage structure and player transaction approach that had impacted competitiveness in the transfer market.’

It was also found the club have ‘financial pressures arising from heavy transfer spending and limited player sales, increasing the relevance of financial fair play constraints to future planning’, whilst having a ‘men’s squad requiring strengthening in terms of quality, experience and leadership.’

Further areas identified included an ‘insufficient prioritisation of the women’s team, an internal culture requiring improvement in a number of areas, and a growing disconnect between the club and its supporter base.’

Venkatesham highlighted a series of appointments to improve expertise at the club and the implementation of a ‘modernised governance structure’ to help tackle the issues.

It is claimed the structure will provide ‘Increased resilience, checks and balances, greater expertise’ and ‘delegation rather than centralisation, which means club can move quicker, with experts making decisions.’

When addressing player recruitment, it was stated that changes had been made to the club’s approach including the ‘removal of previous wage structure constraints and a revised transaction approach designed to better balance speed of execution with achieving the best possible deal.’

It was also noted that there would be ‘an increased emphasis’ on player sales alongside continued revenue growth to allow investment in the playing squad to help comply with financial fair play rules.

The club added that it ‘recognises the urgency and priority of the current situation’ with Tottenham fighting to preserve its Premier League status.

Tottenham’s hierarchy were also questioned over the potential impact of relegation on ticket pricing and communications with supporters around the issue.

Subsequently, Tottenham have now delayed their season-ticket renewal process.

In an email to season-ticket holders, Tottenham said: 'As previously communicated, General Admission Season Ticket Renewals for 2026/27 open today (Thursday 12 March).

'In line with our Ticketing Charter published in March 2024, we are committed to opening renewals by no later than 15 March each year.

'We recognise the seriousness of the current league position of our men’s team and, following discussions with our Fan Advisory Board and the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust, can confirm the renewal window for 2026/27 will now remain open for an extended period until Sunday 7 June to ensure fans have full clarity on next season before renewing.'

Last season, fans had until two days after the final game of the Premier League season to apply for a renewal.

The decision was made in February to freeze season-ticket prices after supporters' groups were consulted.

This time around, they will have two weeks following the end of the campaign.

Despite Tottenham's claims their new governance structure will help the club to move quicker, the club has faced criticism from fans over delaying the decision sack their former head coach Thomas Frank.

A further decision looms with interim boss Igor Tudor under mounting pressure following four successive defeats.

Tottenham head into a daunting clash with Liverpool on Sunday a point above the relegation zone, while a potentially season defining match against fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest looms on March 22.

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Morale was rock bottom when Tottenham arrived in Madrid and by the time their team bus crawled up the ramp from the depths of the Metropolitano for its short ride to the airport and a flight home to London it was through the floor.

More than another crushing defeat, the battering at the hands of Atletico Madrid was another night of embarrassment for the players and their interim boss Igor Tudor.

Perhaps when they employed the Croatian to replace Thomas Frank, Spurs liked the idea his stern and taciturn manner would be good for kicking a few backsides and bringing those players who are not quite as good as they like to think down a peg or two.

If that was the plan, it appears at this point to have backfired. Some players seem to suspect Tudor’s charmless brand of passive aggression is designed to belittle them.

These are the very same players he needs to perform if this salvage operation is going to work.

Friends of Tudor say he has hidden warmth. If true, he is keeping it well hidden.

Some players feel he has worked them hard in training for the sake of it, rather than conditioning his depleted squad carefully through the match schedule, and has set out to impose his authority, being disrespectful almost to the point of mockery.

This was the feeling before Madrid, so imagine the private conversations they were sharing after his brutal treatment of back-up goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky.

Tudor and his staff, which includes two first-team goalkeeper coaches, threw Kinsky into his first game for five months then hauled him off after two mistakes in the first 17 minutes without a word of consolation.

The goalkeeping union led the criticism of Tudor. Former Spurs and England goalkeepers Paul Robinson and Joe Hart on broadcasting duty at the Metropolitano. Former Atletico and Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea on social media. More scorn followed from ex-Spurs players.

The showy substitution may have satisfied Tudor’s ego, but it leaves Kinsky’s reputation in tatters. Same as his confidence. Guglielmo Vicario, who has endured his own struggles in a season when he has been booed by his own fans, will continue in goal at Liverpool.

What if he is injured or sent off? Back to Kinsky or straight to third-choice Brandon Austin.

It is a mess of many dimensions and relegation fears eat away.

Kinsky, according to the Daily Telegraph, has already accepted he will probably have to look for a loan move away from Spurs to restore confidence and reputation.

Players don’t like seeing a team-mate humiliated.

One of very few admirable decisions made during the game against Atletico was by those who ran to offer consolation and support for the goalkeeper as he was replaced and those from the substitutes who jogged after him to the dressing room.

'You wouldn’t wish this on anyone,' said Micky van de Ven when asked about Kinsky by Dutch TV.

As for the mood in the dressing room, Van de Ven pulled no punches. '(It's) terrible to be honest,' said the Spurs vice-captain. 'A doomsday scenario. I could give you the standard talk that we all have to stick together and work hard but we’re just being dealt blow after blow.

'It is really difficult. Everything that could go wrong in the first 20 minutes went wrong. Everyone slips, including me. Those are moments you simply can’t do anything about. I can’t just stand here and start blaming the pitch.'

As Tudor performed a series of tense and terse post-match interviews, most players put their heads down and trudged to the bus. Only Kevin Danso ventured into the mixed zone areas where players can field questions from the non-rights holders.

Danso is a positive force in the dressing room. He speaks different languages and links together different groups. He was all about ‘looking in the mirror’ and ‘digging deep’ and ‘bouncing back’.

For the first time in history, Spurs have lost six in a row, and few are betting against seven when they go to Liverpool on Sunday with Tudor still in charge.

Van de Ven is suspended, and Cristian Romero and Joao Palhinha are doubts after a sickening clash of heads in stoppage time in Madrid, something of a metaphor for the season.

Tudor has made a misfiring team worse by frantically thrashing around for a solution from one tactical plan to another, throwing players in one minute and discarding them the next.

Frank went through a similar process but over time and without the burning fuse there was not the same undercurrent of panic.

Tudor in fairness had made clear in Madrid on the eve of the game that he would prioritise Premier League survival, which was perhaps behind his decision to give Vicario a breather and rest Dominic Solanke, who spent the first six months of the season out injured, and Palhinha, who has been playing on despite a niggle.

Solanke has been effective in Europe with goals in each of the previous two Champions League games against Borussia Dortmund and Eintracht Frankfurt, and he scored from the bench against Atletico.

Without Palhinha, Spurs lack physical presence in midfield. Without Xavi Simons, who also excelled against Dortmund and Frankfurt, there is a creativity void. Yet Tudor has cast him aside as with Conor Gallagher, signed for £35million in January.

Captain Romero meanwhile seems to be advertising for a move, and Spurs are unlikely to stand in his way if someone offers north of £60m but this was the case last summer, when Atletico were said to be keen on the Argentina international but did not show with a bid.

Any concept of a summer clear-out is easier said than done. Those players Spurs want to keep will be the ones attracting the most interest. Bayern Munich are becoming increasingly interested in Archie Gray, one of the few whose stock has risen despite the crisis.

Chelsea and Aston Villa plan to test resolve over Lucas Bergvall. Bayern and Barcelona are among the clubs in pursuit of Luka Vuskovic, a teenage centre-half on loan at Hamburg who has yet to make a competitive appearance for Spurs and is not keen to return.

The sombre flight from Madrid to Stansted touched down in the early hours of Wednesday morning, by which time the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust had issued a statement branding the performance ‘a total disgrace’ and demanding a ticket refund.

Chief executive Vinai Venkatesham was at his desk before 9am and locked in his office for most of the day.

Venkatesham and sporting director Johan Lange have been thumbing through contingency ideas and making calls since the shambles against Crystal Palace last week and holding tight to the idea that it is better to avoid another change in case it sets them back a month to the point of the Frank sacking.

Former Spurs boss Harry Redknapp, among the popular options, told reporters at the Cheltenham Festival he would love to do it but had not been approached. Nor has Ryan Mason, a former Spurs player and popular coach who has twice stepped into the breach on an interim mission.

Sean Dyche tops the ‘next Spurs boss’ betting and it makes some sense, but Tottenham have always been cool on Roberto De Zerbi, another who features prominently with bookmakers because of his availability after leaving Marseille.

If they can reach the summer as a Premier League club, a limited field of candidates will open up. But for now relegation stalks the scene.

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The Premier League has come under criticism from one of its own players amid the current trend of set-piece importance.

Dominant league leaders Arsenal have come under-fire from outsiders for their set-piece focus - with Mikel Arteta's side having scored 19 goals directly from this (corners, free-kicks and/or throw-ins).

That tally is the most in the English top-flight this season with Newcastle second on the list, having scored five fewer set-pieces.

Tottenham are among a cluster of teams who have scored 13 set-pieces this season, but their forward Mathys Tel is not a fan of the style of football.

Speaking on the Zack Nani Foot & Live podcast, Tel didn't hold back - brandishing the Premier League as a 'zoo'.

'I'll tell you the truth, yes, it's [the Premier League] not a spectacle,' he said. 'It's boring to watch; it's really just a clash between two teams with their own ideas.

'There's less flair, no Vinicius pulling off a sombrero flick, no dribbling, no Kylian (Mbappe) unleashing a burst of speed.

'I'd say it's more structured, perhaps too much so, with clear strategies, all those set pieces, little details that can sometimes make the difference. But sometimes, you might think it's just too much.'

'The scuffles in the box in front of the goalkeepers? I told the assistant coach in charge of set pieces: "Don't put me on the marking". Because it's a zoo!

'We're all stuck together, everyone's pushing each other, throwing each other to the ground, holding on… Forget it. The goalkeeper can't get out, he can't see.'

Thankfully for Tel, Tottenham's next match isn't in the Premier League as they travel to Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday night.

Tim Sherwood believes the reality of the Premier League has 'slapped' Tottenham interim boss Igor Tudor 'in the face', following a catastrophic start to his temporary stint at the helm.

The former Juventus boss was appointed Spurs boss until the end of the season in early February, with the north London club sitting just five points above the relegation zone.

However, hopes of a new manager bounce have failed to come to fruition. Tottenham have lost all three of their league matches under Tudor since his arrival, and are hovering just one point above West Ham, who sit 18th in the top flight.

Alarm bells are now very much ringing at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium amid fears of relegation, and Sherwood has taken issue with Tudor's disappointing start.

'I think he's been slapped straight in the face by the competition in the Premier League,' Sherwood told Sky Sports.

'It ain't easy. This is a tough competition. He looks lost at times on the touchline; he knew nothing about it.'

Spurs have nine games left to avoid the unthinkable and battle off the resurgent Nottingham Forest and West Ham, who have both gained momentum in the relegation fight in the past week.

And with Tottenham spiralling toward the drop, Sherwood believes Tudor needs to change his authoritarian approach and adopt a more gentle touch.

He added: 'He's gone from, "I 100 per cent guarantee we spend next season in the Premier League", to, "the players are not fit enough, we're not good in attack, we're not good in the middle, we're not good at the back, we need our injured players back to fitness".

'You've got to get on with what you've got. Forget all that nonsense. Concentrate on the players who are fit at the moment and try and give them a lift.

'You don't get that [new manager] bounce by having a stick and whacking them with it. Not if the downside looks like relegation.

'You have to give them a cuddle. You have to find the best solution. You have to give them an easy solution to how we're going to play. This is how we play.'

If things are to go even further south for Spurs than they already are, then club legend Glenn Hoddle has thrown his hat into the ring to save Tottenham by returning to the dugout.

Speaking on Could It Be Magic, the FA Cup podcast sponsored by Carling, before the Palace defeat, the 68-year-old was asked if returning to management appealed to him.

'I think it would actually,' he said. 'Particularly with Tottenham, as that's my club. I've supported them since I was eight years of age. So they were a massive part of my life.'

Hoddle was previously in charge of Spurs between 2001 and 2003, having already coached England and Chelsea. Though he enjoyed a couple of cup runs, mid-table finishes in the top flight led to his sacking.

'I managed them probably at the wrong time, I've got to say,' he added. 'Let's put it that way.

'Politically and financially, there wasn't money there. Certainly, it wasn't what they told me I was going into.'

Tottenham fans have accused the ownership of disrespecting the club by selling t-shirts with the word 'Spursy' emblazoned on the front.

The white top with the 'Spursy' label and Nike branding is available for £30 from the club's official store.

Rival supporters often use 'Spursy' as a term to insult Tottenham, particularly after crumbling in high-pressure situations such as the Champions League final.

But the club actually brought out the shirt in the summer to reclaim the term after winning the Europa League, and even James Maddison has enjoyed wearing it.

Now, fans are reacting negatively to it as the club are in genuine threat of being relegated - perhaps one of the Spursiest things imaginable after a £145million summer net spend.

'It seems like the owners and the hierarchy don't actually respect the club,' a Tottenham fan called James told Daily Mail Sport.

'Imagine Arsenal making a shirt that had "bottlers" on it.

'The game's gone.'

Meanwhile, a Spurs supporter told The Sun: 'That T-shirt’s self-sabotage.'

'I’m fuming. It’s the kind of thing you’d see in Arsenal’s shop.'

Another added: 'It makes fun of the supporters, club and team and that’s not right.'

Daily Mail Sport has made contact with other Tottenham fans in a bid to ascertain their views.

Last year, a Swedish politician wielded the 'Spursy' term in a bizarre parliamentary speech.

Mikael Damberg said Sweden have 'squandered opportunities' for their economy to prosper, despite having the perfect conditions to deliver success - much like Spurs, in the politician's view.

The north Londoners found themselves deep in a relegation battle last season, despite boasting a stunning new stadium and arguably the best training facilities in world football.

'I naturally think of Tottenham Hotspur, also known as Spurs, it is one of England's most distinguished and rich clubs with an enormous stadium, dedicated and large supporter base - everything to be considered a "top team,"' he told the Swedish chamber.

'Despite this, Tottenham find themselves in crisis. They are fighting at the bottom of the table, just a few points above the relegation zone. Not because they lack resources or benefits, but because they have squandered opportunities.

'Due to making wrong decisions, general jerkiness and thinking in the short-term, they have lost their direction and stability.'

'The club have been given the name 'Spursy', [which is] when you have opportunities but get no results. Madame Speaker that is precisely how the Minister of Finance is handling the Swedish economy.

'Sweden has the power, ability and resources. We have the companies, workforce and innovation capabilities. Conditions exist for the Swedish economy to prosper.'

He added: 'The government risks making Sweden 'Spursy'. That won't do. Sweden cannot perform like Tottenham.'

Tottenham have been ruthlessly and gleefully mocked online, with talkSPORT presenter and ex-Spurs man Jamie O'Hara savagely feeling the heat.

Crystal Palace's 3-1 win at Spurs, plunging the north London club deeper into their relegation crisis was a new nadir for the club on Thursday night.

Opposition supporters wasted absolutely no time in mercilessly teasing the embattled club and while most were able to turn off their TV and scream into the abyss, O'Hara had to front up on his radio show.

Co-host and Chelsea fan Jason Cundy, wearing an Ange Postecoglou mask even managed to push O'Hara's buttons to the point of him walking out of the studio.

O'Hara said: 'I know you're laughing and joking mate but seriously...'

Cundy probed: 'Tudor has had three games, give him time on the training ground, it's not his fault is it?'

O'Hara asked: 'Do you think he's good enough?'

When Cundy replied in the affirmative and quipped that he'd 'seen signs', his irritated colleague and friend said it was 'pointless' doing a show with him, called him an 'idiot' and walked off set.

Fellow talkSPORT pundit and former Aston Villa striker Gabby Agbonlahor also had a pop online.

He posted the viral clip of O'Hara's appearance on an American dating show in which his identity as a former footballer had been concealed until the big reveal with a woman.

Agbonlahor captioned it: 'Spurs players on holiday in the summer trying to explain playing in the Championship next season. LOL!!!!'

The video shows O'Hara telling his love interest: 'Actually, I'm a really famous soccer player from England.'

The taunting was not just limited to O'Hara, however, with plenty of opposition supporters sticking the knife in online and Paddy Power also taunting Spurs.

Replying to a 2023 post from a Spurs account on X talking up signing Guglielmo Vicario over David Raya, they wrote: 'Aged like milk in a sauna.'

Another from the bookmaker went: 'The cameraman picking out miserable Spurs fans in the crowd deserves an Oscar.'

Football influencer Expressions, who is a Spurs fan and live streams his reaction to games, joined in the misery, calling Haringey Council's Social Services to report the 'child abuse' of the fans.

The TNT Sport cameramen repeatedly picked out Spurs fans looking disconsolate in the stands, much to the enjoyment of rival supporters tuning in out of morbid fascination.

One was picked out at the end of the game sitting in isolation after most had long since departed.

When he saw himself appear on camera he immediately stuck up a middle finger.

Another fan posted a clip of 'one of our best set-pieces of the season, showing Xavi Simons lining it up before inexplicably passing the ball to a Crystal Palace player.

Another replied to the news of next season's Championship changing the play-offs from four to six teams next season.

They joked: 'Finally some good news for Spurs.'

Championship-related gags were a running theme, with another user sharing a clip of Keir Starmer speaking after Labour won the election, saying: 'What a night they had in Plymouth and then Stoke,' in reference to the unglamorous away days Spurs might have to encounter next term.

'Man who thought he'd lost all hope loses last additional bit of hope he didn't even know he still had,' was another meme shared.

Spurs are now just one point above the relegation zone with nine games remaining this season.

These being Tudor times they will demand more heads must roll. Only three games in charge and the interim boss appears to have made Tottenham more shambolic than they were before.

Three games, three defeats. Having lost to rivals from the north and west of London it was the turn of the south, with Crystal Palace kicking Spurs further towards relegation trouble.

Oliver Glasner's team were grateful for three points, but they did not have to work too hard because this was a masterclass in self-destruction by the home team.

Looking back from half time it was hard to believe Spurs had taken the lead in the 34th minute. Dominic Solanke found the net from a low cross by Archie Gray soon after a VAR escape and the noise levels were off the scale inside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Four minutes later, Micky van de Ven was sent off for pulling back Ismaila Sarr when he was through on goal. Sarr equalised from the penalty spot and panic took hold.

Interim boss Igor Tudor could only look on from the touchline with a glazed expression. No doubt wondering what on earth he had walked into. There certainly appears to be little he can do to arrest this slide.

The question is, is there anyone who can? Harry Redknapp to the rescue? Well, it can hardly get much worse.

Palace toyed with Spurs for the rest of the first half. Adam Wharton and Daichi Kamada dominated the midfield. Those in white played as if petrified. Think England against Iceland when paralysed by fear.

Mathys Tel, who had started the game well, played a loose pass to Pape Matar Sarr, enabling Evan Guessand to win the ball. Guessand moved it quickly to Wharton, who threaded it into the feet of Jorgen Strang Larsen, and he scored.

Spurs needed the interval at this point, but Palace struck again as eight minutes of stoppage time was added on.

Again, a goal of staggering simplicity against a back three of Pedro Porro, Ken Danso and Joao Palhinha.

Wharton the supplier, Palace's Sarr scored his second. It would have been a first half hat trick but for a marginal offside call when the contest was still goalless.

Sarr had sped onto a Guessand pass and his low shot from an angle spun high off Porro as he made a desperate attempt at a block, over stranded goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario and dropped inside the far post.

There was a long VAR stoppage as Palace fans sang, 'It's not football anymore' and it was hard to disagree when referee Andy Madley ruled out the goal, and an image came up on the big screen.

Both Sarr's feet were behind the ball, but he was leaning forward and his forehead had broken the animated offside line.

It seemed like an escape when Gray and Solanke, two players who did come out with a modicum of credit, combined to score, but Van de Ven's red card, similar to the one shown to Palace's Maxence Lacroix at Manchester United on Sunday, was the catalyst for the great unravelling.

As the half time whistle sounded there were few Spurs fans left in their seats. Some did not return. Those who remained booed the players down the tunnel. Some in the West Stand vented their anger at chief executive Vinai Venkatesham in the directors' box.

Tudor had come into the game wielding his axe again. There were four changes to the team he accused of 'lacking' in all areas at Fulham on Sunday.

There was another change of shape, abandoning the 4-4-2 and returning to the back three deployed in his first game with a defensive line set extremely deep.

The anxiety of the occasion, with West Ham's win at Fulham and Nottingham Forest's unexpected point at Manchester City reeling Spurs towards the bottom three. It bled into the football. The first half hour was terribly disjointed albeit with Palace on top. Wharton tested Vicario within a minute.

Souza, making his first start since signing from Santos in January, suffered a torrid first 10 minutes until his awful late tackle left Daniel Munoz in a heap.

Munoz tried to continue but had injured his shoulder in the fall and struggled off down the tunnel with less than a quarter of an hour played. His exit brought respite for Souza until he was substituted before half time as Tudor reshuffled after the Van de Ven red card.

Spurs were more competitive when they returned. Tudor it seemed had got some sort of message through to them. They fought and won corners and put the visitors under some pressure.

Palace's depleted and inexperienced back three resisted where Spurs could not. When they got through, Henderson stood firm. The England goalkeeper made a fine save from Solanke when a goal would have recharged the home crowd.

As it was, the fans in the away end were the only ones having fun, taunting Spurs with the songs about relegation and the prospect of a trip to Millwall. If Millwall don't get promoted, that is.

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Angry Spurs fans voted with their feet as thousands walked out after their struggling side shipped three goals and were reduced to 10 men in a calamitous first half against Crystal Palace.

TV footage showed hordes of supporters heading for the exits at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with their team losing 3-1 as Igor Tudor's relegation-threatened team plumbed new depths.

Dominic Solanke put Spurs ahead before the match took a turn for the worse for the majority of fans inside the ground four minutes later.

Micky van de Ven was shown a straight red card after pulling back Ismaila Sarr, who converted the resulting penalty to level for the visitors.

Palace then took full advantage of having the extra man as Jorgen Strand Larsen gave Oliver Glasner's men a 2-1 lead before Sarr scored again in stoppage time.

Spurs will be just one point clear of the relegation zone if they go on to lose to Palace after West Ham beat Fulham and Nottingham Forest held Manchester City to a draw on Wednesday.

Tudor sent his Spurs players back out for the second half early but they were greeted by thousands of empty seats vacated by fans who had seen enough.

Tottenham only survived going behind early on when Sarr was narrowly adjudged to have been offside before his strike looped up and over Guglielmo Vicario.

Their hopes of securing a huge win in their battle to avoid the embarrassment of dropping into the Championship were given a boost when Solanke converted at the near post after 34 minutes.

But it was to prove a fleeting moment of joy for Spurs as Van de Ven was given a straight red for his challenge on Sarr when the Palace star appeared to be clean through on goal.

Strand Larsen, a £45million signing from Wolves in January, put Palace in front with a clever finish before Sarr latched on to Adam Wharton's pinpoint pass and nudged the ball beyond Vicario to give the visitors a two-goal advantage.

Spurs' 2-1 defeat at Fulham stretched their dismal run to 10 without a win and they are yet to record a victory in 2026.

The club sacked Thomas Frank in February after two wins in 17 Premier League games left them 16th in the table, with Tudor replacing the Dane as head coach until the end of the season.

Spurs face Forest, Leeds and Championship-bound Wolves in their last nine matches but also travel to Liverpool, Aston Villa and Chelsea.

They have enjoyed success in the Champions League despite their domestic issues and travel to Spain to face Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their last-16 tie on Tuesday.