The career of Antonin Kinsky at Tottenham Hotspur will sadly probably never recover from this. But the more immediate question is how can Igor Tudor carry on for even one more day as interim head coach? The answer surely is he cannot. There should be an announcement as soon as possible.
Every call, every decision has not worked in Tudor’s four games in charge with four increasingly demoralising and disorganised defeats. And things getting worse, markedly worse, and not a shred better. This is car-crash football.
It was Tudor who decided to drop Tottenham’s established number one – Guglielmo Vicario – and select Kinsky and while he cannot be responsible for the awful individual errors he is in charge. For now. And it was his stunning decision, also, to replace his 22-year-old goalkeeper after just 16 traumatic minutes.
If this Champions League last-16 tie against Atletico Madrid felt like a free hit for Spurs – given their desperate fight against relegation from the Premier League – then it ended up being a series of smacks in the face. They are punch drunk. And, for Tudor, surely a knockout blow.
As Kinsky came off, Tudor did not even look at him. He did not even try and console or explain. What kind of management was that? Maybe he deserves the same kind of cold treatment.
Can Tudor be in the dugout for Sunday’s league game away to Liverpool? Any rationale analysis would conclude no. It seems, it looks, and, surely, it is untenable and it was all the more upsetting for Spurs fans that it was laid bare at this stadium where they played the 2019 Champions League Final, also against Liverpool.
More to follow…