Tottenham host Everton on Sunday with their Premier League status on the line, and only one scenario can send Spurs into the Championship on the final day. If they lose at home to Everton and West Ham beat Leeds at the London Stadium, Tottenham would be relegated.

For a club that a year ago was celebrating Europa League glory with more than 220,000 fans at a trophy parade, the shift is stark. What is at stake now is not a title, a cup or a top-four race, but survival, and the mood inside the home ground would be relief rather than euphoria if Spurs avoid the drop.

Sky Sports News' Michael Bridge said Sunday’s Premier League home match against Everton is Tottenham’s biggest game in recent history. That assessment fits the scale of the moment. Spurs are the ninth richest club in the world, yet their season has reached the final day with relegation still possible, an outcome few would have imagined when the club came off that parade route only months ago.

The story of the last year has been one of rapid decline and repeated resets. Ange Postecoglou was not kept in his job after Tottenham fell to their lowest Premier League finish of 17th, and Thomas Frank became his successor in the summer. By January, the West Ham loss had already been identified as the time for Frank to go, underlining how quickly the pressure turned.

Frank has had to work through injuries to Dejan Kulusevski, James Maddison and Mohammed Kudus, while Heung-Min Son left the club in the summer. Even a top-four finish in the Champions League phase table under Frank did not ease the sense of strain among the players, and it did not change the broader picture around the team.

Last season’s numbers showed just how unusual Tottenham’s position has become. They became the first side in top-flight history to lose 22 games in a 38-game season and not be relegated, a mark that now sits in the background of another survival fight. That is why Sunday is being framed less as a routine finale and more as a test of whether the club can step back from the edge one more time.

Everton arrive as the opponent in the final-day home match, but the broader contest is against the consequences of a season that never settled. If Tottenham do avoid relegation, the home crowd is expected to breathe out rather than erupt. If they do not, the club’s worst fears will become reality in a single afternoon.