Good news! Maybe? The Premier League is revealing who won its monthly awards as I type this article, and Tottenham Hotspur manager Roberto De Zerbi has taken home the award for October Manager of the Month!
This is the first time in exactly two years that a Spurs manager has taken home a Premier League Manager of the Moth award — the last Spurs boss to win it was Ange Postecoglou
in October 2023 (that was Ange’s third straight MotM award, too).
There’s something of a reputation that, Ange aside, the Manager of the Month award is something like the kiss of death; my recollection is that goes back to the Mauricio Pochettino days, with poor results or injuries seeimingly coming immediately after one of these things gets awarded. I can’t remember many details of this, but there’s definitely a sense of fatalism among some segments of Spurs fandom over this award. Regardless, a Tottenham manager winning a Manager of the Month award is something of a rare bird these days and we should absolutely take it for what it is — a reflection on Spurs’ (recently snapped) three match winning streak, and the start of what we all hope is a significant turnaround in the club’s fortunes.
Congratulations to Roberto De Zerbi!
