The Athletic.

Tottenham absolutely fell apart yesterday, hammered 6'1 by Newcastle at St James's Park,

a significant blow to their hopes of securing Champions League qualification.

And on top of that, they're currently without a permanent first team manager

and a director of football.

So where on earth do they begin with fixing all of those issues both on and off the pitch?

And has the club really got the ambition to compete with the very best?

I'm Mark Chapman.

This is the Athletic Football Podcast.

Music The President

Iran straight into the thick of it

The two substitutes combined

seconds after their introduction

to hit a sixth for Newcastle United.

So joining us for this one, we have the athletics, Adam Crafton,

and two of our Tottenham writers, correspondent Jack Pitt Brook,

who has at St James's part yesterday,

and Tim Spears, who's covered Tottenham this season as well.

Your tweet, Jack, said based on the first 21 minutes alone, it was the worst performance

I've ever seen from Tottenham. It was the worst performance I've seen from any team at any level,

I think. I don't think I've ever seen a team play that badly as Spurs did in that sort of 21 minute period in which they conceded five goals.

It reminded me a little bit of Brazil losing the effort, sorry, the World Cup semi-final to Germany, 7-1,

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