{"id":443393,"date":"2026-05-24T20:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/443393\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:26:18","slug":"english-premier-league-spurs-stay-up-as-west-ham-relegated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/443393\/","title":{"rendered":"English Premier League: Spurs stay up as West Ham relegated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a few miles away, at the London Stadium, Valentin Castellanos gave West Ham some hope midway through the second half as he fired the Irons in front.<\/p>\n

Jarrod Bowen and Callum Wilson made it 3-0 at the full-time whistle but it was too little too late for the Hammers as a nervy Spurs held on to secure all three points.<\/p>\n

Spurs have enjoyed a mini-revival in recent weeks under De Zerbi, who arrived in late March as the club\u2019s third manager of the season.<\/p>\n

Relegation would have been financially disastrous for the ninth-richest club in the world, who won the Europa League last season under former boss Ange Postecoglou.<\/p>\n

The Hammers, who were promoted to the English top division in 2012, will join Burnley and Wolves in the Championship next season.<\/p>\n

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola walked out at the Etihad for the final time as manager after a decade of almost unbroken success, with newly crowned Europa League winners Aston Villa the visitors.<\/p>\n

The Catalan has confirmed reports that he is leaving the club after 10 years in charge<\/a>, with six Premier League titles and the Champions League in his huge collection of silverware.<\/p>\n

A huge banner rippled over the heads of the fans bearing a giant image of Guardiola, with the messages \u201cGame Changer\u201d and \u201cHistory Maker\u201d.<\/p>\n

There were smaller banners either side to mark the departures of long-serving defender John Stones and midfielder Bernardo Silva.<\/p>\n

Antoine Semenyo gave the home side the lead but Ollie Watkins, named this week in England\u2019s World Cup squad, scored twice to secure fourth spot in the table for Villa.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on a day of significant departures, Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson revelled in a party atmosphere at Anfield as they said farewell to the club.<\/p>\n

Just a week ago Salah, 33, undermined Liverpool boss Arne Slot when he called for a return to the \u201cheavy metal football\u201d played under former boss Jurgen Klopp.<\/p>\n

But Slot included the \u201cEgyptian King\u201d \u2013 third on the list of Liverpool\u2019s all-time goalscorers \u2013 in his starting lineup alongside Scotland defender Robertson.<\/p>\n

Banners in the crowd celebrated both players, one saying \u201cThank you legends\u201d. Another said: \u201cWe Have Gone From Great To Glory. Salah Is Our King\u201d.<\/p>\n

A 1-1 draw meant that Liverpool finish fifth in the table \u2013 a stark comedown after last season\u2019s Premier League title triumph.<\/p>\n

Ten-man Chelsea lost 2-1 at Sunderland, meaning that newly appointed boss Xabi Alonso will have no European football when he is at the helm next season.<\/p>\n

Sunderland and Bournemouth have qualified for the Europa League while Brighton will be in the Uefa Conference League.<\/p>\n

There was a party atmosphere at Selhurst Park, where champions Arsenal<\/a> made nine changes before next week\u2019s Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n

Crystal Palace players gave Mikel Arteta\u2019s men a guard of honour before kickoff to mark their Premier League title triumph.<\/p>\n

The Gunners, who beat Conference League finalists Palace 2-1, sealed their first English league title since 2004 earlier this week after City could only draw at Bournemouth.<\/p>\n

On the south coast, Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes set a new outright record of 21 assists in a single Premier League season when he set up Patrick Dorgu\u2019s goal in a 3-0 win at Brighton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a few miles away, at the London Stadium, Valentin Castellanos gave West Ham some hope midway through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8132,806,10748,22218,18089,8127,11908,5904,184176,226433,42,14731,43,14730,203796,6926,34742,31120,2069,6639,40,38,41,39,156508,810,3807],"class_list":["post-443393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-14year","tag-as","tag-came","tag-division","tag-dramatic","tag-end","tag-english","tag-final","tag-ham","tag-hams","tag-headlines","tag-league","tag-news","tag-premier","tag-relegated","tag-season","tag-secured","tag-spurs","tag-stay","tag-survival","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tottenham","tag-up","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}