Yes and no, I'd say. I don't think the footballing performance was that short term, tbh. Like I said, we were in the Top 6 the entire decade of the 2010s, one of three clubs who can say that, and coming in the Top 4 in 6 of those seasons.
We've consistently been one of the best teams in the land for quite a while now, and while we remember each heartbreak, we've been in 4 finals in the last 10 years, finally winning one last season as we sacrificed league form to do so. Kinda like in 2008 and 1999 when we fell down to 11th but won the League Cup, or 1991 where we lifted the FA Cup but tumbled to 10th that year in the league. Hell, even in '84 we came 8th.
Seems it's the Tottenham way to drop down the league table in order to win some silverware. Personally, I prefer us being in the Top 4 but missing out on the League Cup, because in today's era that's the yardstick of status in the game, but certainly it was great to watch us equal the glory of 1984 (especially as it saved our season by getting us back into the CL).
Funny how it didn't stop the moaning though, eh? Almost as if the people who bemoan our lack of silverware every year and say that Top 4 means nothing are suddenly pointing out how awful our league position is, despite being given the exact thing they claim to measure success by.
Almost as if they're all sulking on the internet, whining about things they don't really understand (such as management of a football club) while most Spurs fans simply get on with their summer and touch some grass.
But sadly that's historical, too. We haven't come close to winning the league since the early 60s, in an utterly different era of football, but the closest we've come since then was under ENIC's watch. This is why I don't understand the perpetual moaners acting as they 'care about the club' because they think they're used to Spurs being bigger than we are. The fact that we've become thought as as one of the big boys at all (to be able to tagalong in the Super League breakaway) is thanks largely to the house that Levy built.
The last few years personally I feel the club lost their way, appointing glitzy names like Jose and Conte for being 'winners', and generously applying that title to Ange too. Levy went with the voices of dipshits on the internet, whining and crying out for such 'winners' to be appointed as a show of ambition, and they've mostly ruined the fine team that Poch led.
That's true, we are, and we have to face reality about it. Hiring someone like Frank might not attract the big names, but as you say, we can't anyway until we get back to being a team seen regularly in the Champions League/Top 5. Instead, hiring Frank will hopefully get us back up the table, since that's what he's proven himself to be really good at, even with limited resources.
Will he be another Poch for us, putting us back in the contention we want for the top silverware in the sport, or will he be another Nuno? Can't say yet, but seeing as this is his first week even meeting the squad, I'm inclined towards a touch of patience.
Clearly that's a controversial opinion to those around who think that actual fan support is 'happy clapping'. All I can say is, I'm much happier being my kind of fan than they appear to be as theirs. If there's an equivalent of AFTV among Spurs fans, and the widely-regarding laughing stock that they are, it's the perpetual moaners.
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