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I’ll tell you what is egregious. It’s the opinion that unless you win a trophy, you’ve achieved nothing.
What Pochettino has done has got us into a position where we can play the world’s best teams and feel gutted if we don’t beat them despite outplaying them for most of the time.
Yes, we all desperately want us to get better and win the PL and the CL. That we can now say that sort of thing with a straight face is a sign of how much progress we’re making.
But some people are incapable of framing this type of thing in anything other than negative terms, which I believe reflects more on them than it does on anything that’s currently happening at Spurs.
It's egregious to hear that type of argument from bitter rival fans and thick witted tabloid journos, but it's baffling to hear it expounded by our own fan-base.
In terms of sporting achievement, what we've done under Poch is probably only surpassed in recent years in England by Leicester winning the Premier League, and in Spain by Athletico breaking up the Barca/Madrid duopoly.
Yes it's frustrating that we haven't had the trophies to show for our rapid progression as a club, but that doesn't render the progress that we've made, and the moments that we've enjoyed (the title races, the top 4 finishes, competing in the Champions League for consecutive seasons etc) meaningless.
Football is about the moments, and the feeling of belonging to something that you can be proud of, just as much as it is about winning trophies. We have the first two, which is more than most clubs, and the trophies will surely follow if we keep this team and this manager together.
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