Abbi Summers: I didn’t want to leave the house after Arsenal title win, but it could get even worse for Tottenham
Tottenham Hotspur fans have experienced one of the worst weeks in recent memory… and it’s not over just yet.
The Inside Spurs panel on talkSPORT bemoaned a night that brought two disastrous results, particularly for a solemn Abbi Summers as the club face the very real prospect of relegation to the Championship.
Arsenal, the historic and bitter local rivals of Spurs, won this season’s Premier League title on Tuesday night as Manchester City were held to a 1-1 draw at Bournemouth.
Their crowning was enough to significantly irk the white half of north London, who were later dealt another huge blow in the capital.
Spurs needed just one point against Chelsea to effectively save them from the drop as they have a far superior goal difference compared to relegation rivals West Ham United.
However, they lost 2-1 at Stamford Bridge and must now avoid defeat at home to Everton on the final day, while hoping West Ham do not beat Leeds United.
May 19, 2026 is a day that Spurs fans will certainly want to forget as soon as possible, with Arsenal’s win taking its toll on presenter Summers.
“I didn’t even want to leave the house today, but then realised I had to be here,” she admitted on the latest episode of Inside Spurs.
“I think it was the worst night ever,” Tottenham broadcaster Sonny Snelling added, but then he, Summers and Ricky Sacks agreed that it could get even worse.
Arsenal could also win the Champions League final on May 30 against Paris Saint-Germain but until then, it’s Operation: Stay Up for Spurs.
Tottenham’s biggest Premier League match ever
Spurs have just one more opportunity to confirm their Premier League status for next season – there are no second chances.
Whilst performances across the season, including just two home wins from a possible 17, have been dismal, injuries have also played a role.
James Maddison has missed most of the campaign while recovering from an ACL injury, but appeared in their last two matches.
This included coming off the bench against Chelsea, during which he nearly scored a late equaliser, and Summers insists that he must start against Everton despite his lack of fitness.
“I’m not going to lie, on Sunday, I don’t care. I know the medical advice will tell you otherwise, I actually don’t care… he has to play.”
Summers added: “Look, he’s not match fit, he isn’t sharp enough, but Sunday is do or die for this football club!
“And I’m sorry, I know you’re coming back from a serious injury, but I don’t care… Sunday, you must throw the kitchen sink at it. I don’t care if you’ve got 30 minutes in your legs, you give me 60, I don’t care.”
An endless list of miserable moments
Whilst relegation on Sunday would ultimately be the worst moment of the season, and one of the worst in their history, the Inside Spurs panel attempted to name just five.
Inside Spurs - Five (35) worst moments of the season
- Missing out on Morgan Gibbs-White, who stayed at Nottingham Forest
- The pursuit of Eberechi Eze, who signed for Arsenal
- Continuing to persist with sporting director Johan Lange
- Getting rid of coach Matt Wells halfway through the season
- Bringing back Fabio Paratici as a sporting director
- Fabio Paratici going to Fiorentina three months later, signing players and staying in Serie A whilst Spurs are going down
- Hiring Igor Tudor
- Hiring Thomas Frank
- Sacking Thomas Frank too late
- Losing 2-1 to West Ham at home
- Losing 3-0 to Nottingham Forest at home
- Losing 3-1 to Crystal Palace at home
- Every game at home, apart from beating Burnley and Brentford
- Djed Spence and Micky van de Ven ignoring Thomas Frank
- Cristian Romero, ‘full stop’.
- Guglielmo Vicario, ‘full stop’.
- Thomas Frank holding an Arsenal cup
- Conor Gallagher being paid £200k-a-week
- Not signing anyone in January, other than Conor Gallagher, then being told not to panic buy
- Thomas Frank talking about Arsenal in his first press conference
- Thomas Frank saying, ‘We will lose football matches’
- Mohammed Kudus coming back from injury, then re-injuring himself again
- Having four ACL injuries in a season, and an MCL
- Peppa Pig collaboration
- Sending out season ticket renewals in March when they didn’t know if they would stay up
- Tyson Fury fighting at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and saying, ‘Let’s hope I do better than Tottenham because they’ve been rubbish recently’
- Arsenal smashing them 4-1 home and away
- Eberechi Eze scoring a hat-trick against them
- Losing 1-0 to Chelsea at home
- The period with no shots on target and an XG of zero
- Conceding every long shot against them
- Not allowed shots outside of the box
- All their loan players being better than the current squad
- Not being able to get Mikey Moore back, for no reason
- Not signing a replacement for Heung-min Son
- Drawing 2-2 with Burnley away
- Drawing 1-1 with Wolves at home
However, there were simply too many for them to mention ahead of potentially the most agonising of the lot.
“I’m just intrigued to know what they will do for that end of season highlights reel,” Summers said. “Surely they don’t do one?”
Sacks added: “Don’t you dare tell me, next week, we’re going to get a ‘Vote for your Player of the Season’. They can’t do that, surely?”
Summers then asked Sacks and Snelling if they could name a Player of the Season, but they couldn’t.
Instead, it was only head coach Roberto De Zerbi who got praise, with Sacks saying: “If it wasn’t for De Zerbi, we’d be down.”
Spurs will be everyone’s ‘cup final’
If Spurs do get relegated, and therefore end their 48-year stay in the top flight, then they will likely be the most anticipated opponents in next season’s Championship.
Sacks also warned that there is no guarantee that they will secure an instant return to the Premier League.
He remarked: “Whatever happens, this needs a massive overhaul in the summer. Ideally, the owners go first and then this team needs completely stripping apart.
“I understand why some say having a massive culture reset at the club could be great, but I don’t think people realise that if Tottenham drop into the Championship next season, we are a cup final every week.
“Cup finals for teams that come to the stadium, us going away, a (possible) giant-killing every week. I think it could destroy us for years. There’s no guarantee… why would we come straight back up?
“A lot of this squad will go, and it’s not [that] I want to keep this squad, but then think about who you’re going to be left with.”
Relegation a blessing in disguise?
Spurs were crowned Europa League champions a year ago, but have not played like European winners at all this season having won just nine of their 37 league matches.
De Zerbi is also their third managerial appointment of the season after Thomas Frank and Igor Tudor.
Relegation would deliver the final and most damaging blow to their immediate future but for Summers, it could be a good thing…
“You talk about a factory reset, and I understand what we’re saying about if we go down, I don’t think that it’ll be easy coming back up either,” she said.
“But do you know what? This is how I’m trying to sell it to myself: I might actually fall in love with my football club again, I might actually enjoy watching Tottenham.”
But Ricky pointed out that only happens if the right decisions are made, which Abbi acknowledged.
“But this team would obviously be stripped, because it has to be. There’s certain players I don’t think will be leaving,” she added.
“Xavi Simons on an ACL [injury], Maddison, Kulusevski – don’t even know if he’ll still be able to play football. Kudus? Maybe, I don’t know. Odobert, still got an ACL.
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Co-host Sonny Snelling highlighted the wages that would save, but this did not seem to be too much of a concern for Abbi.
“But they can afford the wages, they’re the ninth richest club in the world,” she said, rather sceptically.
“Some of those quality players – if we call them that – the ones that haven’t even played for us for five, six months, they probably will still be there because they’ve got long-term injuries.”
talkSPORT and talkSPORT.com will be across all ten matches on the 2025/26 Premier League final day.
The spotlight will firmly be on both Spurs and West Ham as they look to avoid relegation to the Championship.
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