Tommy Martin: Poch to Chelsea the final heartbreak for deflated Spurs fans

Some Spurs fans still refer to Pochettino as ‘Dad’ and would be heartbroken to see him married into a new footballing family,

SORRY LADS: Tottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane. Tottenham’s players have issued a public apology for the 6-1 defeat at Newcastle and offered to reimburse fans with the cost of their match tickets. Pic: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire.

TOTTENHAM’S players took a novel approach to the cost-of-living crisis by promising fans a refund of the cost of their tickets for Sunday’s 6-1 hammering at Newcastle.

If every terrible Spurs performance provoked similar largesse, the windfall for their long-suffering supporters would wipe out a large chunk of Britain’s national debt. Indeed, were Tottenham fans to get themselves properly organised, they could picket the first-team dressing room for back pay owed over decades of lily-livered surrender. Soaring inflation and rising fuel costs would be of no concern to Spurs fans rolling in the proceeds of Son Heung-Min’s guilty conscience.