Clinical Brentford punish dismal second-half performance from Tottenham

The good news for Tottenham Hotspur fans is that there is only one more game of this sorry season to go. The bad news is there is still one more potential humiliation left to endure. Spurs supporters barely care whether or not their team sneak into the Europa Conference League next season, they just want the pain to end.

Nobody could blame those home fans who chose to go after Yoane Wissa scored a late third goal for Brentford and nobody could blame those supporters who chose to stay to boo loudly at the final whistle.

Harry Kane certainly deserves better. This could yet end as his best-ever Premier League season, which shows just how bad most of his team-mates have been. Kane took his Premier League tally to 28 – two short of his personal best – with a superb free-kick that also clinched a new record as it was the 25th top-flight game he has scored in this season.

But two brilliantly taken second-half goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Wissa’s late strike, set up by Mbeumo, condemned Tottenham to yet another disappointment in what chairman Daniel Levy admitted has been “an immensely difficult season.”

Brentford could still finish the season above Spurs, having moved just a point behind them, and the home fans sporadically broke into “Levy out” chants.

In his end-of-season message to fans, Levy said: “This has been an immensely difficult season. We made footballing decisions over recent seasons based on ambition and a desire to bring success to our club and they have not delivered what we had hoped. Your frustration has been understandable and all of us at the club have shared it.”

He added: “We shall spend the period ahead of next season working relentlessly to position our club for on-pitch success and football you will love to come and watch. Every element of the club’s operations is geared toward delivering that.”

It was a valiant attempt at giving the Tottenham fans something to be optimistic about, but the performance of the team again underlined the fact that talk is cheap. This has been a depressing, humiliating campaign.

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