'A disgrace!' - Tottenham labelled worst team in Premier League history not to go down

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Jason Cundy has ripped into Tottenham and claimed their season will not be a success even if they win the Europa League.

Spurs fell to their 20th defeat in the Premier League this term with a 2-0 loss to Crystal Palace on Sunday, a result which leaves them 17th in the league table with two matches remaining.

The north Londoners' miserable campaign has seen them accumulate just 38 points in 36 games so far, a tally which leaves them unable to finish higher than 13th.

This means they are guaranteed their lowest league finish for 21 years, when they came 14th in 2004.

Worse still, Ange Postecoglou's side can only equal their worst-ever Premier League points tally of 44, which they amassed in the 1997/98 season.

Despite enduring a torrid time domestically, it has been a different story for Tottenham on a European front.

The Lilywhites have a shot at lifting their first major trophy in 17 years after reaching the Europa League final with a 5-1 aggregate victory over Bodo/Glimt, where they will face fellow Premier League strugglers Manchester United.

And while many have argued a long-awaited trophy would automatically make Spurs' campaign a success, talkSPORT's Cundy was not convinced by this argument.

Speaking to former Tottenham midfielder and fan Jamie O'Hara on the Sports Bar, the ex-Chelsea man tore into his co-host's team for their woeful league efforts.

He told O'Hara: “You've been a three-legged dog with fleas.

“You are the worst team in Premier League history thus far, not to go down. You're a disgrace!”

Statistically, Spurs' points tally means they will not go down as the worst team to survive relegation from the Premier League.

They currently boast four more points than West Brom's total of 34 in the 2004/05 campaign, the lowest a team has ever recorded and still stayed up.

But with the north London outfit only sitting above the league's three already relegated sides in Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton, who have gone down with barely a whimper, Cundy was quick to dismiss any talk of silverware rescuing their season.

After O'Hara pointed out Spurs will still qualify for the Champions League with victory in the Europa League, despite their league woes, his studio partner continued his scathing rant.

Cundy slammed: “You don't need glory because you lot, by the way, you are an absolute disgrace to Premier League football!

"You think I'm joking? You are an absolute shambles of a team. This time last year, you wanted to lose a game [against Manchester City]. This time this year, you don't care whether you win.

“Mate, this is not life in the Premier League."

Cundy then had a string of brutal analogies for Tottenham, as he laid into O'Hara and his fellow supporters for suggesting European glory would make their season a success.

He taunted O'Hara: “Do you know what you are? You're a van that goes round collecting other people's rubbish. You know those vans that go round the houses and waste? That's all you are.

"You just pick up everyone else's rubbish, going round [asking]: 'Anything else?', people leave stuff like microwaves.

"That's who you are as a Premier League team. Just picking up whatever you can. Because you ain't picking up points.”

He added: “You're the rag and bone, mate. You are the worst team this season, currently, in the Premier League, other than the three teams that went down.

“You're a disgrace!”

O'Hara has previously suggested Tottenham will have had a better season than Arsenal if they secure the Europa League title and their north London rivals were eliminated from the Champions League.

With the Gunners since being dumped out of Europe's top-tier competition by Paris Saint-Germain, Spurs now have a real chance of keeping their side of the bargain.

But Cundy rubbished this suggestion, as he argued Europa League glory would only salvage an otherwise poor campaign.

The 55-year-old told O'Hara: “Listen, you try to have this argument with me every day about [how] it's a better season than Arsenal’s.

"Do not fool yourself. You're kidding [yourself], you're lying to yourself.

“You know what, mate? It saves your season. It doesn't make your season. It saves it.”

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