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Tottenham are two points adrift of safety in the Premier League (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018Guess this\u2019ll actually be a pretty big game for them. Probably one of the biggest games of their season?\u2019<\/p>\n

It was an hour into the match at Molineux last Saturday and this was the first time the Wolves fans sitting behind me had given their opponents a moment\u2019s thought. They had bigger problems. After a record winless run at the start of the season they had finally been relegated that Monday. This was one of three remaining Premier League home fixtures before they\u2019d return to the Championship, so they were quiet but had come out in numbers.<\/p>\n

I was in the home end with my Wolves-supporting boyfriend. But as a Tottenham fan I was there covertly. And as the players lined up before kick-off, I had tears in my eyes. We had to win. Fail to beat the league\u2019s worst side and, really, that would be it.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest games of our season? This was the biggest game in our history. Being undercover for a match like this was a particular kind of torture. But the reason I need to tell you about it is that it gave me something valuable: a dramatic shift in perspective. Wolves know a lot about relegation.<\/p>\n

Until last week, they\u2019d been in the Premier League for eight straight seasons that included a European run. Last time that grand old club fell out of the top 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

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Joao Palhinha secured Tottenham\u2019s first Premier League win in 2026 last weekend (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m not trying to draw a comparison between Spurs and Wolves \u2013 this column will never be about the relative importance of football clubs. Everyone\u2019s club is the biggest in the world, that\u2019s the whole point. In any case, the situation Tottenham find themselves in is unprecedented. That\u2019s largely down to the scale of the club\u2019s financial resources. To be the ninth wealthiest club in the world, with the best stadium in England, banking hundreds of millions more annually than Champions League semi-finalists Atletico Madrid, and to be in this state? That\u2019s special.<\/p>\n

For every other club in the pyramid, the Spurs rubbernecking is fun. It\u2019s all anyone wants to talk to me about, and it\u2019s pretty much all I\u2019m thinking about.<\/p>\n

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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 not only a choice: I\u2019m sitting in for the wonderful Danny Kelly on Spurs podcast The View From The Lane, broadcasting for 2-3 hours a week about Spurs and nothing else. But I can\u2019t really help it. In Wolverhampton I took advantage of my necessary silence to focus my mind on willing the ball into the back of the net and then, afterwards, keeping it out. The 1-0 win reward for my (nearly) invisible celebration when Joao Palhinha scored.<\/p>\n

Points aside, the main thing I gained was witnessing Wolves fans\u2019 complete indifference to Spurs. To be among men who neither knew nor cared that Xavi Simons would be our 37th injury this season. They booed him! They were so angry he wouldn\u2019t get up! They have nothing to play for! It was wild to be inside that alternate state of mind. I left the West Midlands as sure as I\u2019ve ever been that Spurs will be relegated, but with a brand new feeling of calm.<\/p>\n

I learned that whatever happens it will be fine. It may be that your world has ended, but no one else notices \u2013 what you give your focus to becomes your world. Supporting Spurs may feel below the level of choice, but still \u2013 I\u2019m there because they\u2019re mine. I feel grateful to care so much, and that\u2019s not going to change.<\/p>\n

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