Arsenal can have a more embarrassing season than Tottenham even if Spurs are relegated

It is a nightmare season of epic proportions for Tottenham Hotspur fans.

Not only are they facing the very real possibility of relegation, bitter rivals Arsenal are currently top of the Premier League.

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Spurs are just four points above the drop zone with 11 games to go and are yet to win a Premier League game in 2026.

They have taken just four points from nine games this year – that puts them rock bottom of the form table.

It could be Championship football next season for the white half of north London, while this season the red half are still fighting for all four trophies.

Arsenal vs Spurs debate

That led talkSPORT’s Inside Spurs gang to consider this… if Spurs get relegated and Arsenal win nothing, who has had the more embarrassing season?

Majestic said: “Spurs getting relegated.”

Sonny Snelling replied: “See, I think it’s Arsenal.

“Nothing after what they’ve done… they’re top of the Champions League, top of the Premier League, Carabao Cup final and doing well in the FA Cup, and they win nothing. 

“The reason I say Spurs is less because I think this has been a long time coming, that’s my argument for that.

“This has been bubbling along since Mauricio Pochettino left. We were always going to go down this way. Harry Kane and Heung-min Son left, and after last season as well, I don’t think it’s a big shock if Tottenham go down.

“Gary Neville the other day said it’d be the biggest shock in Premier League history, whereas I think Arsenal from now losing it all I think they’d look back, and even if they won it this year, I still think they should look back and go, ‘we should have won the other three.’”

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Spurs finished 17th last season despite winning the Europa League. The club then proceeded to sack Ange Postecoglou.

His replacement, Thomas Frank, only lasted a few months with Igor Tudor brought in as a firefighter to help avoid relegation.

That Europa League trophy ended a 17-year silverware drought for the club.

Over that time the club lost in two League Cup finals, a Champions League final and finished second in the Premier League.

Majestic said: “The irony is that Arsenal have created this whole notion that you have to win things otherwise you’re not successful.

“Because during that Poch time, with everything but stuff over the line, it felt successful. I felt we dined at the top table. I could come into talkSPORT and enjoy it.”

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Abbi Summers said: “That’s because the bar and the expectation had been raised so much because of the work that he had done. 

“It didn’t culminate in trophies or silverware, which is such a shame, and it is a travesty that didn’t happen.

“There were obviously many factors to why that didn’t happen, but it made us competitive, and I think that we’d gradually become competitive under Martin Jol, under Harry Redknapp, finally Pochettino. 

“We were there or thereabouts, and we were finally in that big boy conversation.

“You look at us now, seven years later, it would be the biggest shock because a team like Leicester, who had come up, obviously they did the most unbelievable thing in going and winning the league, but they were, at their core, still pretty much a Championship team for a lot of that. 

“Blackburn is such a long time ago, but with Tottenham, you are a Premier League team. You are meant to be part of the big six. 

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“Going and getting relegated is unthinkable, and the ownership and the club and the infrastructure and the players, they are not prepared for that. 

“How do you act if you end up in the Championship? Don’t think for one second if Spurs went down, we’d come straight back up. You must be dreaming. Absolutely dreaming. 

“They’re not aware of the repercussions of what that would be. This is not a club that would understand it. 

“It’s different to someone like Aston Villa or Newcastle, who obviously are big clubs, but weren’t at the same level when they got relegated as someone like Tottenham is. I think they were probably a bit more prepared to be in the Championship and be in a fight. 

“Tottenham would have absolutely no idea, not one iota of how to survive in that.

Look at them now. We don’t really know how to survive currently.”