\u2018Guess this\u2019ll actually be a reasonably large game for them. Probably certainly one of the largest games of their season?\u2019<\/p>\n
It was an hour into the match at Molineux last Saturday and this was the primary time the Wolves fans sitting behind me had given their opponents a moment\u2019s thought. They’d greater problems. After a record winless run firstly of the season that they had finally been relegated that Monday. This was certainly one of three remaining Premier League home fixtures before they\u2019d return to the Championship, in order that they were quiet but had come out in numbers.<\/p>\n
I used to be in the house end with my Wolves-supporting boyfriend. But as a Tottenham fan I used to be there covertly. And because the players lined up before kick-off, I had tears in my eyes. We needed to win. Fail to beat the league\u2019s worst side and, really, that may be it.<\/p>\n
One in every of the largest games of our season? This was the largest game in our history. Being undercover for a match like this was a selected form of torture. But the rationale I want to let you know about it’s that it gave me something precious: a dramatic shift in perspective. Wolves know rather a lot about relegation.<\/p>\n
Until last week, they\u2019d been within the Premier League for eight straight seasons that included a European run. Last time that grand old club fell out of the highest flight, they\u2019d done the double drop to League One. Now they were off to the Championship again, feeling okay about it and hoping to enjoy watching their team win for a change.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not attempting to draw a comparison between Spurs and Wolves \u2013 this column won’t ever be concerning the relative importance of football clubs. Everyone\u2019s club is the largest on the earth, that\u2019s the entire point. In any case, the situation Tottenham find themselves in is unprecedented. That\u2019s largely all the way down to the size of the club\u2019s financial resources. To be the ninth wealthiest club on the earth, with the most effective stadium in England, banking a whole bunch of thousands and thousands more annually than Champions League semi-finalists Atletico Madrid, and to be on this state? That\u2019s special.<\/p>\n For each other club within the pyramid, the Spurs rubbernecking is fun. It\u2019s all anyone desires to confer with me about, and it\u2019s just about all I\u2019m serious about.<\/p>\n Aston Villa (A) \u2013 May 3<\/p>\n Leeds United (H) \u2013 May 11<\/p>\n Chelsea (A) \u2013 May 19<\/p>\n Everton (H) \u2013 May 24<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n This is just not only a alternative: I\u2019m sitting in for the wonderful Danny Kelly on Spurs podcast The View From The Lane, broadcasting for 2-3 hours every week about Spurs and nothing else. But I can\u2019t really help it. In Wolverhampton I took advantage of my crucial silence to focus my mind on willing the ball into the back of the web after which, afterwards, keeping it out. The 1-0 win reward for my (nearly) invisible celebration when Joao Palhinha scored.<\/p>\n Points aside, the fundamental thing I gained was witnessing Wolves fans\u2019 complete indifference to Spurs. To be amongst men who neither knew nor cared that Xavi Simons could be our thirty seventh injury this season. They booed him! They were so offended he wouldn\u2019t rise up! They don’t have anything to play for! It was wild to be inside that alternate frame of mind. I left the West Midlands as sure as I\u2019ve ever been that Spurs will probably be relegated, but with a brand recent feeling of calm.<\/p>\n I learned that whatever happens it’s going to be superb. It could be that your world has ended, but nobody else notices \u2013 what you give your focus to becomes your world. Supporting Spurs may feel below the extent of alternative, but still \u2013 I\u2019m there because they\u2019re mine. I feel grateful to care a lot, and that\u2019s not going to alter.<\/p>\n For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Follow Metro Sport for the newest news on ![\"WOLVERHAMPTON,](\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_294623296-fddb.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646\")
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