For the next few months, Tottenham will be without their goalkeeper and captain. It is, in theory, a disaster, and yet listen to many pundits and supporters and you would think Spurs might not be that badly affected. For a World Cup-winning captain, Hugo Lloris is strangely divisive.



As recently as March, former Spurs midfielder Jermaine Jenas led the calls for Lloris to be dropped after a costly late error in a 2-1 defeat at Liverpool. It was one of a number of high-profile mistakes that have seen Lloris make more errors directly leading to goals than any other Premier League player in the last four years. Many Tottenham fans have been similarly hostile on social media but French football writer Vincent Duluc of L’Equipe told The Athletic he is surprised by how “severe” many English pundits and fans are towards Lloris.



Those that criticise Lloris tend to do so because of his inconsistency. He is capable of making blinding saves but in his last two...