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The Athletic FC Podcast

Can Tudor survive much longer at Spurs?

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Premier League, Sports, Champions League, World Cup, Soccer,

4.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Things aren't getting any better for Tottenham or Igor Tudor, after their 5-2 Champions League last 16 first leg loss to Atletico Madrid.


Four games, four defeats, 14 goals conceded and a goalkeeper subbed after 17 minutes.


So, what next for Spurs & Tudor?


Host: Ayo Akinwolere

With: David Ornstein, Jay Harris & Simon Hughes

Executive Producer: Adey Moorhead

Producers: Guy Clarke and Nick Thomson


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0:00.0

The Athletic FC.

0:04.3

Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayot Aquimuelere.

0:09.0

Four games, four defeats, 14 goals conceded, and a goalkeeper subbed off after 17 minutes.

0:16.7

So, what is next for Spurs and Igor Chudor?

0:22.3

With us today, we have our Spurs correspondent, Jay Harris.

0:24.9

We've also got our football correspondent as well, David Ornstein, with us.

0:29.5

All right, gents, this time last week we were talking about the situation at Tottenham Hot Spur.

0:34.3

I genuinely didn't think we'd be back in this week in such depth talking

0:38.3

about spurs once again. But yeah, here we are. So let's look at the defeat firstly at Palace last

0:45.0

week last Thursday and then we'll look at the defeat on Tuesday night in the Champions League

0:50.4

to Athletic home Madrid shipping five goals to Athletic Home Madrid. Jay. Spurs are

0:55.4

skating on some seriously thin ice at the moment. They're just completely imploding.

0:59.7

If you look at what happened against Crystal Palace, Mickey Van the Venn's red card led to them conceding

1:04.7

three goals in seven minutes just before half time and the game was over, a game they needed to win.

1:10.1

And it was a very similar situation

1:11.5

last night. They conceded four goals inside 22 minutes. That's the sign of a team that's incredibly

1:16.6

low on confidence and doesn't know how to respond to setbacks. I don't want to get too ahead of myself here,

1:22.4

but in terms of Igor Tudor, the interim head coach, it's four games in charge, four defeats, one red card,

1:28.7

one goalkeeper subbed off after 17 minutes, 14 goals conceded. I think every decision he's made

1:34.9

during his spell in charge has backfired. Players alone confidence are being played out

1:40.5

a position. Tudor has just not gelled with the players or the fan base whatsoever.

1:46.2

And Spurs still have, what, nine games left to save their season, but serious questions need

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