Mauricio Pochettino and his broken Spurs hit their lowest ebb | David Hytner


Tottenham manager has time to reflect after an awful week in which opponents have played around and through his team

If looks could kill there would now be a crime scene at the mixed zone in Brighton’s stadium, around the spot where Eric Dier stopped to speak to those who wanted to make sense of how Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham tenure is unravelling. Dier is a laid-back guy but he is big and extremely tough, and there was genuine menace about the long pauses before some of his answers.

Spurs had been dismal in losing 3-0 to a team who had previously not won at home since 2 March, and the nonperformance came hard on the heels of the 7-2 Champions League humbling against Bayern Munich in north London last Tuesday.

Related: Brighton pile pressure on Pochettino as Tottenham lose Lloris to horror injury

Related: Serge Gnabry scores four in brutal Bayern’s 7-2 humiliation of Tottenham

Continue reading...