It started in Zagreb. With that loss, the image the club presented in the Amazon documentary - that our success since 2015 was the rise of a glorious and inevitable project that was deserving of and capable of conjuring the Mourinho that once existed as its leader - could no longer sustain itself.
It made unavoidable the truth that was there to be seen all along. The project wasn't Levy's, it was Poch's, and the pomp and circumstance of the stadium had accidentally killed the golden goose, and we are now just Martin Jol's Spurs in a very ill-fitting tuxedo.
The months since have been the stages of grief for that realization.