Is Tudor's Spurs reign almost up after only four games?

If Igor Tudor's jaw-dropping removal of goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky after 17 calamitous minutes in Madrid was a brutal example of a mistake being rectified swiftly, then is it time for Tottenham Hotspur's hierarchy to consider doing the same?

Interim head coach Tudor delivered the time-honoured blunt "no comment" when asked whether he deserved to keep his job after the 5-2 loss at Atletico Madrid, his fourth straight defeat.

This situation, like Spurs' season, seems out of his control even after only 26 days in charge.

In reality, the Croat's position is looking increasingly untenable, every scrap of evidence produced since he succeeded Thomas Frank suggesting he is the wrong man in the wrong place.

With their former manager Mauricio Pochettino watching on from the stands in Madrid, the Spurs power brokers must be pondering another emergency appointment as their season slipped further into crisis.

In the emotional, atmospheric surroundings of the Metropolitano this was, in a strictly sporting context, like being present at the scene of an accident.

This was Spurs in microcosm with mistake piled upon mistake – the self-destruct button pressed with despairing regularity.

And at the centre of it all was poor 22-year-old Kinsky, selected ahead of previous first-choice Guglielmo Vicario, but substituted in short order after two slips gifted goals to Marcos Llorente and Julian Alvarez.

If the Spurs fans who travelled to Madrid – with neither hope nor expectation – thought this wretched season could not produce fresh horrors for them, one of the worst opening 23 minutes in the club's recent history soon put them straight.

Where do you even start?