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Spurs' Nightmare season shows little sign of improving.

After West Ham's draw with Crystal Palace,

there remained two points from safety with five matches to go.

So, does Deserby have enough time to save spurs?

And with us today, we have the athletics Jack Pit Brook.

We've also got Dan Kilpatrick as well.

Well, Brighton's brutal 95th minute equaliser on Saturday

means spurs are still without a win in 2026.

But does West Ham's draw on Monday night give them just a glimmer of hope, Dan? Yeah, I think it definitely does. I mean, I think being to result away from

safety would have been another kind of big psychological blow and would have felt much worse for Spurs.

You know, they're now within two points of West Ham and they've got a better goal

difference. So you could argue that's kind of just one point. It feels a lot better than,

than had, you know, West Ham obviously won that game. But I think the Brighton-Lay equalizer

was obviously a huge sucker punch for Spurs.

I think the transformative effect of getting that first win this year

and doing it in that fashion as well with a goal from a player who I think will come on to,

but I think has the potential to be or the most likely candidate to be a kind of catalyst

for Spurs' escape would have been, I think, huge for Spurs

and potentially transformative. And as Jack has written this week, you know, they just have to

take the positives from that performance, which was probably their best, was certainly their

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