Tottenham Hotspur: Who is to blame?

Here at 90min towers, we’ve realised that there is always at least one Premier League club in relative crisis at any given time. In tribute, they are christened as the ‘crisis club of the week’.

But Tottenham Hotspur have crossed a line. You can’t keep continuously wrestling back the championship belt (you know, proverbially – we all know about the trophy drought). There must be a price to pay.

As such, we’ve had to dust off the old ‘who is to blame?’ gimmick instead. So, who really is to blame for Spurs’ current distress?

Blame rating: 0.1/10

Look at him. That big smile. Those big shoes. Those big wings.

He is everything wrong with Tottenham Hotspur.

Blame rating: 0.2/10

What’s worse than one big giant cockerel?

TWO big giant cockerels.

Blame rating: 0.5/10

It’s time to hop in the time machine. It’s time for some domino-effect interrogating.

Midway through the 2011/12 season, Tottenham had separated themselves from the top-four chasing pack and were within touching distance of Premier League title contenders Manchester City.

In a crunch game at the Etihad Stadium, Spurs fought back from two goals down to level it at 2-2. Mario Balotelli somehow escaped a red card for stamping on Scott Parker’s head, and would score a stoppage time penalty to seal a win for Man City and send Tottenham’s campaign into a tailspin.

That’s why they’re still stuck fighting for top-four finishes now.

Blame rating: 0.75/10

With Tottenham in the midst of that title fight, they recruited Ryan Nelsen and Louis Saha on free transfers on deadline day.

How do you think it went?

Blame rating: 1/10

But the person most at fault for such a collapse is Harry Redknapp. Or more specifically, his dog Rosie.

During a trial of two counts of cheating the public revenue, Redknapp explained to a court that he set up a Monaco bank account with Rosie’s name because he loved her so much.

All the while, Spurs’ season was going down the pan and he was flirting with the England job.

How could you do this, Rosie?

Blame rating: 1.5/10

At the end of Redknapp’s tenure, star midfielder Luka Modric was sold to Real Madrid, with Spurs announcing they had entered a special ‘partnership agreement’ with the Spanish…