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Robert de Zerbi's mission with four games remaining is to gain sufficient points to lift Spurs out of the bottom three, and to ensure a 50th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. If he fails, his squad might self-destruct at the end of the season.

It is hard to believe that in May last year when we played this fixture, both teams were challenging for the Champions League. Villa beat us 2-0, but lost their last game at Old Trafford to miss out on a Champions League place on (substantial) goal difference. Spurs beat Manchester United in their next game which was the Europa League final, thus gaining their Champions League place......

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My Spurs Odyssey readers - okay, reader - will confirm I wrote last week that we would be happy to win ugly against Wolves, if need-be. The first victory of 2026 at mournful Molineux was very, very ugly, but it was a victory ... and beautiful in the eyes of this ancient observer.

Only the "save of the season" by born-again goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky in the 98th minute virtually kept Tottenham's survival hopes alive, as reported HERE by my colleague Declan Mulcahy. If he had not performed a Superman impersonation and somehow saved the last-minute Wolves free-kick, we would all be heading for Stoke on a cold midweek evening next season. That's how significant the save was........

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Spurs finally won a Premier League match in 2026 at their sixteenth attempt. It was the first league victory since December 28, 2025 at Selhurst Park against Crystal Palace. This leaves Sheffield Wednesday with the dubious distinction of being the only team in the top four English divisions without a league win in 2026. The sequence was one less than Spurs worst ever run of sixteen winless league games, 91 seasons ago which ended in relegation........

Full report by Declan Mulcahy here...

In an exciting and entertaining game where Spurs led twice through excellent goals by Pedro Porro and Xavi Simons, Brighton stunned us with goals in added time at the end of each half. Until Rutter's 95th minute goal, Spurs had hopes of a precious first league win of 2026, and indeed of ending that 15-game winless run. It was a good home performance and if we are going to go down, we will do so with a fight. Roberto de Zerbi insists we can win our last five games!.....

Full report here...

The most epic thread on The Spurs Odyssey message board was one which started in 2010. This provided the history of our new stadium applications (including the thankfully unsuccessful bid for the Olympic Stadium) right up to the present day with images of the completed new stadium. In the early hours of Saturday 20th October, 2018, our stadium thread reached 1,000 pages! There is a genuine community feel about the board, which is moderated.

Every Spurs match is covered with excellent threads, which feature images and stats from previous games. There is so much to enjoy about the message board which also has an off-topic section where non-football matters are discussed.

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