{"id":697516,"date":"2026-05-27T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697516\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:46:08","slug":"does-nfl-share-blame-for-spurs-injury-struggles-retractable-pitch-forms-part-of-major-fitness-review-as-1-billion-stadium-hosts-american-football-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/697516\/","title":{"rendered":"Does NFL share blame for Spurs\u2019 injury struggles? Retractable pitch forms part of major fitness review as \u00a31 billion stadium hosts American football fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maddison has been vocal about the need for a deep dive into the club&#8217;s fitness records, saying: &#8220;Our situation with the injuries has been worse than any other club. People try and say, &#8216;Oh, but we&#8217;ve got this and that&#8217;. But ours is astronomical, and we need to look at why that is. Sometimes it can just be unlucky, sometimes it can be a coincidence, like me doing my ACL or [Dejan] Kulusevski getting a horrendous knock off [Marc] Guehi. That&#8217;s not the medical team, that&#8217;s not the pitch or all the theories that you see, sometimes that&#8217;s rubbish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite his pragmatic view on some incidents, Maddison is convinced that the sheer volume of absences derailed the season as Spurs fought to avoid relegation. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been a bit unlucky,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But like I said, the big names that we&#8217;ve missed, it does affect you and you can&#8217;t just deny that. Myself, Kulusevski and [Mohammed] Kudus, and [Rodrigo] Bentancur missed three months and whatnot. If you had had them for the whole season, we wouldn&#8217;t have been in this situation, I strongly believe. That&#8217;s just not me being naive, that&#8217;s just a fact. But it is the situation we find ourselves in, and I am just proud of the lads to dig deep today.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maddison has been vocal about the need for a deep dive into the club&#8217;s fitness records, saying: &#8220;Our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,1614,85,967],"class_list":["post-697516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-tottenham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697516","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=697516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}