The Midas Touch: Ange Postecoglou’s Impact at Tottenham Hotspur

We've got our club back. A sentiment that has rung all over the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium over this short season. A statement that has faced ridicule from rival fans. Back? Back from what? From trophyless to trophyless? From not losing at the Emirates to drawing? Please, little old Tottenham are going back to a period of mid-table mediocrity. But take off your troll-tinted glasses and glance at the league table, you can see that Spurs are first, unbeaten in the league and playing some of the best football in the division right now.

How did this happen you may ask? Well, it’s a story that’s common throughout British history. An immigrant from halfway across the world arrived and is getting the job done. The immigrant being Ange Postecoglu.

What people do not understand is that before Ange, Tottenham was in a dark cloud. After Mauricio Pochettino's departure in 2019, the club was so hellbent on turning around the ‘bottlers’ tag attached to them, after getting so close to the pinnacle under the Argentine. In doing so, they went away from attractive, fast-paced football to a slow, dull and exhausting excuse for whatever happened on the pitch the following years.

Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte were hired to give the Tottenham faithful the elusive trophy they were desperate for, but in hiring these “serial winners” Spurs fans were subjected to horrible, drab performances and press conferences in which these “winners” seemingly downed tools and told the fans they were lucky to have them. That it was the club’s fault for their bad results, and if anything, positive happened they deserve all the plaudits. You can see quickly how Spurs fans became tired of being told by other fans they should be grateful even though they were the ones subjected to this torture on a weekly basis.