whether football is not merely to be the propaganda wing of petro-inflated billionaires,Tottenham must be the model – yet they face Liverpool on Sunday with their position precariousThere is an awkwardness to the situation in which Tottenham find themselves, a hollowness that should reverberate around all of modern football. Over the past three seasons they have probably been the best side in the Premier League. They have improved each year under Mauricio Pochettino. Their squad is perhaps better than ever before, or certainly than it has been for half a century. They are a young,developing side, with an impressive young manager. They play progressive, and modern football. They can press tall or sit off and look to play on the break. And yet everything they effect exists in a vacuum of impossibility; success a staging post to a destination that may lie for ever out of reach.
Once they had found their equaliser at Newport,final week could not have gone much better for Tottenham. Not only did they beat Manchester United but two of their top-six rivals slipped to surprising defeats. The gap from Spurs in fifth to United in moment could have been 11 points; instead it is five, while Arsenal are six behind. Having broken the jinx final season, and those days when Spurs finished behind their neighbours look to have been consigned to history.
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Source: guardian.co.uk