In some ways even if we’d lost I had taken some comfort we’d gone from a team that could barley muster a shot against relegation fodder at home to one that outplayed a top half side, away from home missing several first teamers. A team as someone else had mentioned in the thread at the time was greater than the sum of its individual parts, which to be honest is almost the inverse of what Spurs teams have been about.
If we’d nicked this result after being dominated, whilst the euphoria of such a mugging is palpable it is a short term high that cannot be maintained. Last night we got evidence that the system is working and players who have been written off under previous managers (I think I’ve probably called for at least half that team to be sold or upgraded and I count myself in the more patient half of our fan base!) showed that they can contribute. Maybe because of their roles being defined, the tactics are not solely t absorb pressure and how for a front player to produce on the break or maybe because they are being drilled better.
There’s still a way to go and bigger challenges await, we were comprehensively outplayed by Chelsea but it just feels a long while since we really created as much as we did last night.
But the way we won will also help the belief that we aren’t predestined to be sexy.
Have to say fair play that a lot of comments there said we deserved to win anyway and they kept giving us back the ball.