{"id":516449,"date":"2026-03-03T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516449\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:56:08","slug":"ossie-ardiles-calls-for-unity-as-tottenham-linger-above-relegation-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516449\/","title":{"rendered":"Ossie Ardiles calls for unity as Tottenham linger above relegation zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Tottenham<\/a> player and manager Ossie Ardiles has called for togetherness to ensure his old club get out of “big, big trouble” in the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spurs’ top-flight status is under grave threat for the first time in three decades after a 2-1 loss at Fulham<\/a> on Sunday left them only four points above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

A run of two wins in 19 matches and a record-equalling period of 10 matches without a victory has sent the fanbase into a state of frenzy about whether or not injury-hit Tottenham have enough in their current squad to stop the slide.<\/p>\n

Ossie Ardiles won back-to-back FA Cups with Spurs in 1981 and 1982.\u00a0(Photo by Shaun Brooks – CameraSport via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Ahead of Thursday’s visit of Crystal Palace<\/a>, two-time FA Cup winner Ardiles told the Press Association: “Our job, everybody at the club, my job and the job of everybody in Tottenham is to go behind the team.<\/p>\n

“We are OK right now but we could be in big, big trouble.<\/p>\n

“So, everybody has to be together to achieve what we want to achieve.<\/p>\n

“Survive this season and then we’ll see what happens next.”<\/p>\n

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Ardiles discussed Tottenham’s precarious situation during a milestone occasion for his old teammate Micky Hazard, who alongside his sister Michelle is behind the mental health charity Legend On The Bench.<\/p>\n

The Hazards were able to unveil the 100th park bench by Legend On The Bench last Thursday at Water Gardens in Harlow with several Spurs greats like Ardiles in attendance.<\/p>\n

Former England<\/a> goalkeeper Pat Jennings and former Tottenham captain Gary Mabbutt were also present for a landmark occasion for the charity, which was set up after Hazard’s nephew Jay committed suicide in 2019.<\/p>\n

“Yes, it is a wonderful, wonderful achievement. I was with him when he started to do this and he started very small, but it is amazing how it has grown,” Ardiles reflected.<\/p>\n

“Micky is the driving force. I come, take pictures and talk a lot of rubbish, but the proper job and the hard work is all down to him.<\/p>\n

“His goal was quite small but it grew and grew and he works harder and harder. Now we are where we are right now. It’s an incredible achievement.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tottenham player and manager Ossie Ardiles has called for togetherness to ensure his old club get out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-516449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}