Every cloud has a silver lining
Tottenham Hotspur finally ended their 17 year trophy duct in the Europa League final against Manchester United, Spurs were very much the underdogs, with many thinking the Red Devils would come out on top. Instead of Bruno Fernandes, it was Heung-min-son who was the one to lift the trophy over his head.
Brennan Johnson has been a shining light for Spurs this season, and thanks to his 42nd minute strike, his name will be forever entrenched in the hearts of Spurs fans everywhere. There was still a few minutes of the first half and a whole second half left for those in Bilbao and back at home to endure, before they could say they saw their club lift a trophy, after a near twenty year wait. Man United were unable to level the scoreline, as the Europa League headed to North London.
As quoted on NBC Sports, previously under fire boss, Ange Postecoglou said: “I can’t put it into words to be honest. I know I’m at an amazing football club with amazing supporters. It’s no secret it’s been a tough year, but I’ve just had this things inside me the back half of the year — one focus, one target. I just felt this was it. To achieve it today… I know what it means to the club, it’s had the tag of a nearly team for a long time. The only way you break that is by winning things, and we did that today.”
When this season is brought up, such fans can breathe a sigh of relief as they can now forever to point to this exact moment, instead of having to talk about their not so great domestic season, of which the European success has bailed them out.
An unfortunate reality
After what was undoubtedly the club's greatest night in a long while, Spurs crashed back down to earth, and were hammered 1-4 by Brighton on the final day of the Premier League season. This season will tell you that this wasn't a one off and fans have to accept that domestically, it has been a campaign that fell very much below expectations.
They splashed the cash in the transfer window, spending £175 million, £105 million went on the additions of Dominic Solanke and Archie Gray, because of money came out, the pressure was already at a high level.
They began their season with a disappointing 1-1 draw against newly promoted Leicester, but bounced back with a 4-0 pasting of Everton. The start of September was a disaster, suffering consecutive defeats against Newcastle and to their noisy neighbours, Arsenal, the recovery was magnificent, managing to secure back to back wins against Brentford and their first meeting with Manchester United, in both games the Lillywhites scored three goals.
Only one league win came their way in October, that being another game where they scored a big amount, a 4-1 victory against London rivals, West Ham, eclipsed by losses to Brighton and Crystal Palace. November was the scene of Spurs' most impressive win, a 4-0 win away at Manchester City, which was a nice change from the week before's defeat at another promoted team, when they hosted Ipswich Town.
December really hurt their season, out of a month that had seven league games, the win tally only stood at one, a 5-0 away defeat at St Mary's Stadium but in heinsight, that wasn't that impressive, they fell to five defeats that month, along with a 1-1 draw with Fulham. It got even worse at the start of 2025, they conceded the double in the North London Derby, and lost to Everton and Leicester.
February provided a brief recovery, doing their own double on Man United, exacted revenge on Ipswich, but fell to an expected defeat against the blue side of Manchester. After then, it took Spurs until the 6th April to put another mark in the win column, it was no particular feat, in defeating Southampton for the second time, but it did condemn the Saints to the 2025/26 season in the Championship. That would prove to be their last win of the campaign as they slumped to a 17th place finish.