Tottenham are out of luck. Getting some might be the one thing that can save them

The problem with appointing your third manager of the season with seven Premier League games left, when you have not won for more than three months, and all your creative players are injured, is that you desperately need your luck to be in.Over the course of a 38-game season, you can hope that some of the impact of fortune, of randomness, of contingent little football events, bounces, decisions, injuries, and human error, might be levelled out by the sample size. But if you judge over just seven games, and those games are played under pressure like this, then luck will inevitably play the decisive role.Advertisement