Tottenham’s Conference League tale of disaster awaits its latest twist | David Hytner


Spurs have been trolled by one opponent, humiliated by another and now Covid has delayed their final group game

Even now, at this distance, the video retains all of its shock value; the dark comedy mixing seamlessly with the gloating. Tottenham had lost 1-0 at Paços de Ferreira on 19 August in the first leg of the Europa Conference League play-off and it was the prompt for the Portuguese club to get trolling. Again.

After the draw was made, Paços had uploaded a clip of two of their fans discussing the meeting with a London giant. Which one was it? They ran through all of the possibles, deliberately ignoring Spurs, until they were informed that it was indeed them. “Oh, these guys … We can easily beat Tottenham,” they say, before clinking their beer bottles together.

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