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Will the history books consider this season to be a failure for Tottenham?

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Written by James McManus for FootballFancast.com: After last weekend’s cruel defeat away at Chelsea, Spurs were left languishing in 6th place after a resurgent Liverpool leapfrogged them into fifth place with just four games left to play. The holy grail of the Champions League now looks a distant dream after they fell 7 points behind Man City and what was once destined to be the start of something special is beginning to feel just like another false dawn – to put it quite simply, without securing Champions League football for a second successive season, Spurs season will ultimately go down as a failure.

It will seem odd to most calling Spurs season a failure, but let’s attach some perspective to proceedings shall we. Barring the club’s entertaining run in Europe, they’ve flattered to deceive for the majority of the campaign and only their exploits in Europe and manager Harry Redknapp’s status as a media darling have ensured that their season hasn’t come under closer inspection until now.

The league, as the time honoured tradition dictates, is your bred and butter. The soiree into Europe should not have been seen as an opportunity for a jolly around the continent, rather the establishment of the club among the European games’ elite – without 4th place this season, Spurs will be confined to the dark depths of the Europa League and channel 5 for another season, a dauntingly poor prospect for most fans and a big comedown from this season‘s exalted company.

At home in the Premier League though, is where Spurs have failed to catch fire on a consistent basis. Last season, Spurs finished the campaign with 67 league goals to their name; from 34 games this term they’ve registered just 50 league goals. They also managed to make White Hart Lane into a fortress of sorts last campaign, winning 14 and drawing 2 of their 19 home fixtures. This season, however, they’ve won just 8 of their 17 fixtures in North London and drawn a whopping 8. They’ve already conceded 2 more goals than they did the whole of last season in the league too.

Despite looking like a club that is just a player or two in the right areas short of truly challenging for the title, in reality, they’re a lot further away than that. Since the end of February, they’ve been in quite rotten form. While Man City have churned out the points needed to secure the coveted 4th place, Spurs in the meantime have drawn against Wolves, Wigan, West Ham and lost to Blackpool, four sides currently battling for their Premiership lives and  ones which they should be dispatching with ease.

In the domestic cup competitions they’ve sorely disappointed too. An extra-time defeat at the first hurdle to rivals Arsenal 4-1 in the Carling Cup was only topped by a humiliating 4-0 away defeat in the FA Cup third round away to Fulham.

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  • Surespur says:

    Couldn’t agree more about the season being a failure (although not yet mathematically). However, although exclusion from CL next season is likely to leave an emptiness usually only associated with a berievement, I don’t see it as the big derailment to our progress / development that many do. I believe the key players will stay, except maybe for VDV. We will continue to challenge and if Redknapp can find that striker and CB we need, the sky remains the limit.

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