TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM – Someone at Berocca ought to be getting a pay rise. It has been a season of football miracles but the fact these Tottenham players managed 90 minutes after partying like it was 1984 has to be right up there.
It couldn’t have really been any other way. How do you make sense of a season in which Spurs recorded their lowest finish since 1977 and still provided their supporters with the best night of many of their lives in Bilbao?
It was just three minutes into the game that the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium began singing the Australian’s name. “Ange In” read the banner.
Spurs fans’ banner for Postecoglou (Photo: Getty)On Friday, 220,000 people had lined the streets of north London to serenade Postecoglou, who delighted them with another prophecy.
That was not his only brilliant one-liner. “Dickens said it the best,” he told the club’s in-house TV. “It’s been the best of times and the worst of times.”
Despite everything, Spurs are only three or four signings away from building on their Europa League triumph and Champions League qualification has added at least £100m to their transfer kitty.
Postecoglou with the Europa League trophy (Photo: Reuters)Levy has to decide whether Postecoglou, having guided Spurs to their first silverware in 17 years, has earned the right to oversee that rebuild. Whatever call the chairman makes is likely to be divisive and emotion cannot be a factor in his decision.
Will the Europa League likewise drown out memories of everything else that has happened over the past 10 months? In terms of Postecoglou’s legacy, whether he stays or goes his status as a legend is cemented. In his own words, “we’ve given them a night and a couple of subsequent days that will live with them forever.”
“My gut feeling is I feel right now that I’ve done something that no one believed I could. And I shouldn’t be sitting here talking about it [my future].”
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When a group of club legends gave the squad a guard of honour and Son Heung-min brought out the trophy, there was a particularly distinguished guest at the end of the line. Keith Burkinshaw is a month shy of his 90th birthday but the last Spurs boss to win a European trophy before Postecoglou was there on the pitch – curiously, that 1984 Uefa Cup was his parting gift as he had already resigned due to differences with the board.
Levy deserves credit for persevering with the Postecoglou project even if there were plenty of moments when they might have parted ways.
The atmosphere against Brighton may well have backed him into a corner, however, and dispensing with such a popular head coach would be controversial. This is a football club that for the last few days has felt high on life – and any chairman would be reluctant to disrupt that.
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