It might be too early to push the panic button but Roberto De Zerbi faces a huge task if he is to turn Spurs aroundTime for Tottenham to start panicking? This is, of course, a subtle trick question. Tottenham is one of those clubs that never actually stops panicking. They panic when they concede and they panic when they score. They panic when they have the ball and they panic when someone else does. They have a coach in Roberto De Zerbi whose face evokes a state of permanent alarm, the expression of a man perpetually having a toilet door opened on him. One year they even managed to panic their way to the Europa League. For the ever-rattled Spurs fan, this club is less a treasured devotion and more a lifelong haunting, broken up by occasional panic substitutions.You could intuit that sense of encrusted resignation pretty much from the moment Anthony Elanga’s improvised shot kissed the post and trickled over the line to give Newcastle the lead. Since beating Aston Villa 4-1 in late 2024, Tottenham have gone behind 44 times in all competitions and come back to win precisely zero of them. There is something innate and endemic here, a chronic case of Long Tottenham for which – despite the new coach, the new leadership structure and more than a third of a billion pounds in transfer fees – there remains no proven cure. Yoane Wissa’s clincher was of zero surprise to anyone. Continue reading...
Everton have avoided defeat in their first away match of a Premier League campaign for the first time since August 2021 (v Leeds United), prior to this afternoon, the Toffees had lost their last four on the road to start a league campaign. Everton managed five shots on target in the first half, their most in the opening half of a Premier League game since managing six against Tottenham Hotspur in January 2025, whilst the Toffees' non-penalty xG of 1.06 was their most in the first half of a league match since September 2025, when they managed 1.17 v Aston Villa.
'Welcome Marco', read the banner that Bournemouth fans unfurled before kick-off at the Vitality Stadium and Herr Rose delivered a performance straight out of the Cherries playbook.
Rose was only six minutes away from a dream start to his Bournemouth managerial career last week. After more late drama, he and Bournemouth at least have their first point on board but the wait will go on for a first win under their new head coach. Michele di Gregorio, who spent the last season as the Juventus goalkeeper, joined the club on loan this summer to provide competition for Petrovic.
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