{"id":500124,"date":"2026-03-28T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500124\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:25:08","slug":"tottenham-should-not-appoint-roberto-de-zerbi-over-mason-greenwood-support-fans-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/500124\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham should not appoint Roberto de Zerbi over Mason Greenwood support – fans’ group"},"content":{"rendered":"

The group, whose aim is to eradicate sexism and misogyny in football, said: “This is not an appointment Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> should make.”<\/p>\n

Tottenham<\/a> have won only one point in five Premier League matches under Tudor and are one point and one place above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

Italian De Zerbi, who left Marseille in February, has been reported as a replacement this season or during the summer.<\/p>\n

He spent two successful seasons at Brighton<\/a>, leading them into Europe, before leaving for Marseille in 2024.<\/p>\n

In November, De Zerbi said of Greenwood: “It saddens me what happened in his life, because I know a totally different person than the one who was described.”<\/p>\n

Proud Lilywhites, Spurs’ official LGBTQ+ fans’ group, said: “When someone in that position publicly defends a player like Mason Greenwood, and frames it in a way that downplays the seriousness of what happened, it matters, not just in isolation but in what it signals.”<\/p>\n

Spurs Reach, Tottenham<\/a>‘s official race, ethnicity and cultural heritage fans’ group, said: “Regardless of intent, framing of this nature risks normalising harmful attitudes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group, whose aim is to eradicate sexism and misogyny in football, said: “This is not an appointment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-500124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}