Things just keep going from bad to worse for Tottenham Hotspur in the 2025/26 Premier League season, and the club now has to be worried about a potential relegation fight on the horizon after losing 2-1 to 18th placed West Ham United in a defeat that really should seal Thomas Frank's fate as the club's manager.
Frank was the biggest individual loser of the defeat to the Hammers, but he was not the only individual associated with the Lilywhites to disgrace himself. Goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario was among the players on the pitch to produce a horrid day, negating a brilliant save from West Ham center back Konstantinos Mavropanos with several miscues.
VIcario is one of the best pure shot stoppers in the Premier League, but he is literally the worst goalkeeper in the league at everything else. Tottenham fans were in disbelief at how poorly he commanded his own box, with his flapping at air for the West Ham winner late in the game standing out as yet another hard to forgive gaffe from the Italian international.
Guglielmo Vicario continues to lose points
All season long, the experienced Vicario has looked like a rookie at defending crosses or dealing with the ball at his feet, and this was far from the first time when the ex Empoli man literally cost Tottenham Hotspur points in the table in a winnable game by making an inexplicable basic error.
Young backup Antonin Kinsky is far from the finished product, but he is an immensely talented young shot stopper with more long term upside than Vicario. He could be the ideal replacement for Vic if given the chance, but with Thomas Frank not giving him any chances, the Czech international is now, like forward Mathys Tel, contemplating pushing forcefully for a transfer away from the N17 and the club's horrid head coach.
If there is any justice in the world - and especially if Frank gets his walking papers after this embarrassing rivalry defeat - then Vicario's hapless flailing against West Ham will usher in a few starting opportunities for Antonin Kinsky.
The young backup has played well enough this season to merit more starts, while Vicario has been troublesome enough to earn some demerits of his own. Tottenham need to keep seeing more and more of what Kinsky has in him, and, yes, they do need to do a better job of keeping their top young talents like Tel and Kinsky appeased with minutes.