How are fourth-placed Tottenham a ‘distant sixth of the big six’ and yet still deluded?

The media want to put Tottenham in their place and berate the fans for wanting more while calling for Antonio Conte to be sacked. It’s confusing.

Silly Spurs with their silly Spurs delusions
Can we have a little reality check? Tottenham did get dumped out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage but that literally equals their second-best performance in Europe over the last decade. Last season they were dumped out of the Conference League at the group stage, FFS.

And they are fourth in the Premier League. Fourth. And on exactly the same points as the same stage last season, when they finished fourth.

Now Antonio Conte is clearly not their long-term manager and there will be few tears shed when he inevitably leaves at the end of the season, but on paper this is still a decent season from Spurs. On the pitch it has largely been sh*t, but they are still fourth. So this from Dave Kidd in The Sun seems a tad odd:

‘That they failed to score in either leg was a damning indictment of Conte’s regime, under which Spurs have failed to thrill and struggled for identity.

‘Now chairman Daniel Levy must decide whether to keep Conte in charge until his contract expires at the end of the season or make a change now.

‘Either way an ‘arrivederci’ is coming soon.’

Mediawatch would be truly astonished if Levy made a change now. In March. With Spurs still in the Champions League places. It would be unprecedented. And it would cost him money it would be ludicrous to spend.

And then Kidd writes:

‘At half-time, there was a fair amount of booing from home supporters. Really? With their team just one goal down in a Champions League knock-out tie?

‘What sort of club did they think they were supporting? Presumably one which had won the title more recently than the Kennedy assassination or Beatlemania.’

Ah, so you want your cake and eat it? You want to be snide about Tottenham fans for having expectations beyond their status but still suggest the manager should be sacked when they are fourth and above both Liverpool and Chelsea in the Premier League. What sort of club do you think you are writing about, Dave?

A hint of what’s to come
But the idea that Tottenham might sack Antonio Conte is the kind of nonsense that drives publishers to employ Trending Writers. And those Trending Writers are deployed to find otherwise-hidden hints and messages.

And so to the shameless football.london for this:

‘Tottenham hint at Antonio Conte sack decision amid…