How Spurs learned to stop worrying and just enjoy the team.
Tottenham Hotspur, when on song,
are currently England’s best team.
Fluent, potent and deep, they seem to play every game with a heartening
combination of determined positivity and confident exuberance. Even Manchester City, in full flight, the
league leaders since the early weeks, can rarely match the exhilaration that a
Spurs attack provides. And it’s a
winning feeling too, as recent years of improvement and consistency have
resulted in the Lilywhites usurping local rivals Arsenal as the dominant team
in North London, and with Chelsea’s diminishing returns, arguably in the
capital altogether. Tottenham’s fanbase,
notoriously neurotic but loyal to a fault, have long suffered the mixed results
and mediocrity that had become a staple of their team for the last two decades
- forever trying to regain the glory of the 1961 Double winning team and more
recently, the pomp of the ‘91 vintage – featuring the talents of Gary Linekar,
Paul Gascoigne, Paul Allen et al. Recent
seasons have been most encouraging with a Carling Cup win over Chelsea, A first
ever Champions’ League campaign last year, regular showings against Arsenal,
Liverpool and Chelsea in the league, mixed in with the emergence of an eclectic
yet entertaining team of eye catching purchases, youth and the odd loan import.
