Pundit Micah Richards made the obvious observation that Spurs were poor in their defeat at home to Aston Villa yesterday.
The Lilywhites welcomed some fans to their stadium for the game after a long absence because of the coronavirus pandemic.
We expected the return of fans to spur them on to victory even though this has been a poor season for them.
They started the game brightly and scored an early goal. However, a horror show from Sergio Reguilon saw them concede two goals.
The first was an own goal by the Spaniard, who then gifted Ollie Watkins the second in an awful first-half display.
Villa defended their lead well until the end of the game, but Richards says Spurs looked off the pace and questioned if they had allowed talk of Harry Kane leaving to affect them.
The England captain has told the club he wants to go and he might have played his last game at home as a Spurs player.
‘They were awful, they started well. They got the goal through Bergwijn and they looked in control for the first 10 minutes,’ Richards said on Sky Sports via the Daily Mail.
‘Then Reguilon did not have his best game if I am totally honest. It just felt flat today, I don’t know why, they had their fans in stadium and so maybe there was more expectation.
‘Reguilon makes a mistake, not once, but twice, and the fans felt let down. Villa were really good, but Spurs were really bad. I don’t know if talk of Kane potentially leaving if it had an effect on the squad or confidence.
‘But Spurs were awful today. At least under Mason they have had a little bit of spirit and fight, but today there was none of that, which I was very surprised with to be honest.’