The most upsetting bit of this is the way the media and general narrative around the club is changing, and it’s the narrative Ange is creating.
Everyone used to say “Spurs don’t win trophies” and that was it. Now, pundits, other fans and all sorts basically just sort of chuckle at us and talk about how ridiculous we are, we aren’t even taken seriously as a football club now, because we aren’t a serious football club.
The last few games, commentary teams just do the whole “well aren’t you entertained? Great for neutrals!” We’re a footnote, something as a neutral to make your Sunday afternoon fun when your own team aren’t playing.
Now it’s all we hear “well it’s always entertaining here at Spurs” and yet we are going nowhere. We can hide behind injuries, but it’s clear where this is going. We’re a school team managed by one of the dads.
Of all the things I want this club to win, the hearts and minds of neutral fans is bottom of the list. Now our own fans are buying into it, “let’s sing his name, it’s entertaining isn’t it!” No, it isn’t, I want us to be a proper football club trying to win things.
In the summer, we won’t have won any trophies but will get to some quarters and semis, we’ll finish atrociously midtable - some of our better players will go and play to compete elsewhere, due to being midtable we’ll attract an even lower standard of player as we’ll be shopping in a different store. The same fans will be wondering how it went so wrong all whilst singing the name of our competition winner manager whilst we go and try and turn over Fulham in a “hoping to be top half” six pointer.