Tottenham and De Zerbi sink deeper into mire after Sunderland’s stroke of luck
Tottenham and De Zerbi sink deeper into mire after Sunderland’s stroke of luck. Thirty minutes before kick-off Roberto De Zerbi wandered on to the pitch with his black padded gilet zipped high to the neck in the face of a chill Wearside wind.
Thirty minutes before kick-off Roberto De Zerbi wandered on to the pitch with his black padded gilet zipped high to the neck in the face of a chill Wearside wind. By the final whistle that stiff breeze had dropped a little but so, too, had the morale of Tottenham and their new manager.
In cementing the visitors’ position in the bottom three with six games to go, Nordi Mukiele’s second half winner ensured Régis Le Bris’s Sunderland rose to 10th. De Zerbi’s unusually subdued body language suggested he was shivering inside.
Those Tottenham officials who patronised their promoted Stadium of Light counterparts with talk of a one season top tier stay at pre-season Premier League meetings must wonder how they got things so horribly wrong.