Are we on the road to greater things now?

Spurs 3 Real Madrid (European Champions) 1

The Glory, Glory nights are back!

As I was preparing this article the Beatles song "The Long And Winding Road" kept popping into my head. And that is what we are travelling on, a road that has given us new path under Maurice Pochettino. Under his first season, we finished a respectable fifth. Then came the second season and that ended with us finishing third. Last season we went one better and finished second. Not quite getting there, but showing our potential. The last season at White Hart Lane we finished our best ever position in the Premier League.

This season - the critics cried - will see us being confronted with what Arsenal had when they sep up their temporary home at Wembley (jinx, bad run, not a good season). Granted, our first couple of home games looked like we were on course to follow the critics cries. Then we turned the corner with a 3-1 over Dortmund, followed by a league cup victory, followed by a league victory over Bournemouth. But it was the Champions league the doom-mongers were especially critical about.

We were drawn in the hardest group. By comparison, the other English clubs had a safer and surer journey. After all, our "H" group had Real Madrid and Dortmund in it. So we were doomed. Real Madrid were European champions. so let us not get too carried away. A good kicking would teach us a lesson and probably give us some good experience. And if we were lucky a third placing would do us fine. So supporters and commentators were suckered into this thinking.

Dortmund came and went - yes, a 3-1 victory - but never mind, a trip to Apoel will soon disperse any illusion we might have. Of course, we won that away, so Real Madrid, the home of the famous European Champions, will put us uppity fools in place. But a brilliant 1-1 draw (and they only got a penalty) followed. Nevermind people cried, once the famous white-shirted team came to Wembley they would put us right and we would be sent on our way with a flea in our ear. But things didn't actually go quite to plan. Oh, no... Spurs showed the European Champions who were the new masters of the European football circus. Yes, we thrashed them 3-1, and as they walked off, with their heads between their legs (as if a rubber dolly was trying to do some mischief to their hidden implements) people started to look at us in a different light.

Putting it another way, we came of age. We won, in other words, there was no doubt that we had arrived.

So, where now? We still have two games to go, but it is the league that we must now impress. Granted we only suffered two defeats (and both were close), but it was those sort of matches (Chelsea & United) that we must beat to be taken seriously. Nevertheless, we are only at the beginning of our journey and as things have gone it looks like a very enterprising one at that.

We won and we must enjoy the moment. We made history as no Spurs team has beaten a Real Madrid team.Those magic European nights are back and we must relish the moment.

Our next match will be against struggling Crystal Palace. COYS!!!!!!!!!!!

Your, Don Scully