Pressure builds on Premier League’s bottom team to part company with manager Russell Martin
Tottenham Hotspur's Pape Matar Sarr scores his team's fourth goal during the comfortable 5-0 win over Southampton in the Premier League on Sunday. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images’s version of the glory game over Southampton’s it ended up being a question of exactly when Russell Martin’s misguided evangelism will be discontinued. And not if.
Not that it much mattered in the first half but Tottenham’s defensive selection looked decidedly makeshift. At right-back, Djed Spence was making his first Premier League start since joining from Middlesbrough in August 2022. Can a previously discarded relic from the Conte era still provide an instant impact? Such a question was raised by Spence marching through the aching gap in Saints’ midfield and laying up James Maddison to score after 38 seconds.
As did those Saints fans who barrelled to the exit as Pape Sarr scored the fourth by the 25th minute. The stands emptying, the rest sat either dumbfounded or cursing rank ineptitude. Meanwhile, Martin could only stand, isolated, aware that, like Steve Cooper last month, and Gary O’Neil earlier on Sunday, when a manager’s number is up, it’s usually public opinion that delivers the felling blow.
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