Tottenham’s form is, without dispute, relegation form. They have been collecting points at an average below 0.5 per game for two months.
Carry on at that rate over the final 15 games of the Premier League season and they will barely break 30 points, which would have been enough to survive last season but usually isn’t.
They appear trapped in what clever clogs former Spurs head coach Andre Villas-Boas liked to call a negative downward spiral and fear of the inconceivable is starting to take a grip on their long-suffering supporters.
‘You’re going to f***ing take us down,’ one fan screamed at Ange Postecoglou as he trudged down the tunnel after Sunday’s defeat at home by Leicester.