Harry Kane has said Tottenham’s failure to compete for trophies is simply not good enough as he reflected on the dismal sequence that has derailed their season, beginning with the “dagger in our hearts” at Sheffield United last week.
Spurs lost 1-0 at the Championship club to exit the FA Cup and, after Saturday’s Premier League loss at Wolves by the same scoreline, they went out of the Champions League last 16 on Wednesday night, having been held to a 0-0 home draw by Milan.
It meant another 1-0 defeat – this time on aggregate. Spurs created little during a flat and directionless performance. They were booed off at half-time and full-time and there is a strong end-of-days feel to Antonio Conte’s managerial tenure, not least because his stated aim is to compete for silverware.
Conte, out of contract in the summer, saw his team knocked out of the Carabao Cup at Nottingham Forest last November and Spurs’s season comes down to whether they can hold on to a top-four place.