Tottenham don't really do European away wins, certainly not recently. Going into Thursday night's match in Budapest, the north London club had won only one of the previous nine trips they had made around the continent.
Think Mura and try not to shudder, think Sporting and those two late goals, think Vitesse, think Pacos de Ferreira and definitely think Zagreb. Ok we'll stop there because you get the gist and you don't really want to think about those nights.
But Spurs do often struggle on the road when it comes to European away days so when Ange Postecoglou named a team with four teenagers in the starting line-up - two of them academy youngsters making their full debuts - you could hear the football gods chortling among themselves as they planned what was to come.
However, the good thing about youth is it doesn't follow the script. Go back through those European defeats in recent years and you'll find teams packed with plenty of older players who were simply dreadful on the day.
Against Ferencvaros, Postecoglou had to think about the trip to high-energy Brighton just two-and-a-half days later but still managed to find a blend and balance to his team.
Yes, there were four teenagers and the recently-turned 22-year-old Pape Matar Sarr, however, Pedro Porro and captain for the night Cristian Romero at 25 and 26 were the youngest of the rest, with Yves Bissouma, Ben Davies, Timo Werner and Guglielmo Vicario bumping up the average age significantly and lending important experience to the bunch of youngsters.
It took Tottenham around 20 minutes to start to adjust to the noisy atmosphere within the Groupama Arena, during which time the visitors had a Barnabas Varga 'goal' ruled out for a marginal offside and Vicario made one incredible reaction save from the same player, although unbeknownst to him the ball had already gone behind and out of play.
Tottenham started to get to grips with the occasion and 19-year-old striker Will Lankshear only just mistimed a header from a Werner corner and it bounced off his shoulder and over the crossbar from around eight yards out.
Sarr was denied by the keeper but would not be on 23 minutes. Three of the teenagers were involved as Mikey Moore drove inside and his flicked pass was deflected into the centre of the box, Lankshear managed to get an important touch only for some calamitous defending to send the ball against the falling Lucas Bergvall and into the path of Sarr.
The Senegal international slotted a composed finish inside the left-hand post, making it back-to-back European matches he has scored in.
Spurs created further chances in the first half. Sarr and Moore forced the goalkeeper Denes Dibusz into saves while a Porro effort across goal hit the left-hand post with Lankshear inches away from getting a toe on it.
After the break, Romero's header was tipped over the crossbar by the keeper and Lankshear hit a volley into the ground that bounced just up and over the goal.
A last-gasp tackle in the Ferencvaros box denied the young striker after the hour mark following a lovely move that began with a Gray backheel out of a tight situation before Bissouma swept up the pitch.
Moore then raced from one half to the other, sent away by Sarr, before picking out Werner perfectly, only for the German to round the keeper with a heavy touch and send his effort into the side-netting.
It was left to Brennan Johnson to do what he does best nowadays - score goals. He sent one venomous effort against the crossbar in the 80th minute and six minutes later made no mistake with great control from James Maddison's lofted pass, Moore again involved in the build-up, before the Wales international arrowed a left-footed strike in off the post to make it five goals in five consecutive games.
Tottenham's defence lost their clean sheet in added time when Varga did well to get between Romero and Davies to slide home an effort but it proved to be only a consolation.
Spurs' reshuffled team, with its four teenagers, had 58% of the possession, sent 17 shots at goal with seven on target and forcing the keeper into five saves and the home defence needing to make 28 clearances.
Tottenham became the first English side to beat Ferencvaros in Hungary in 55 years.
This was Spurs' fifth win on the spin and it was their third away from home within that run, showing not only their character but proving to Postecoglou that he has a squad more fit for his purpose so the football does not change when the players do.
"Yeah, I am [really happy]. Irrespective of who you play in Europe away, it's always a challenge," the Spurs boss told football.london out in Budapest. "You saw with the atmosphere the crowd create, they really get behind their team and the conditions as well. So there's a whole range of things you need to deal with.
"Obviously we made quite a number of changes to the team, including putting the young boys in, but I thought they handled it really, really well.
"We needed to defend and defend well, we played some good football and created some good chances, maybe could have had a couple more and most importantly win an away European tie which I think is a credit to the lads."
European victories on the road are a rare thing recently at Tottenham Hotspur and it's been more than three years since they won five on the trot in all competitions. Postecoglou is changing the narrative around the club and this is only the beginning.
Magic Mikey Moore
When you look at Mikey Moore around the Tottenham training ground, he looks like any other youngster who has recently turned 17. He laughs with his academy friends, winds them up and acts like a teenager should. They don't treat him any differently even though they know he's destined for the top.
Take him out of that environment and place him within Ange Postecoglou's first team set-up and he becomes naturally quieter and remains incredibly polite, yet he's not shy. Players with his ability know what they've got and it gives them an inner confidence that allows them to feel like they belong.
On the club's tour to Asia in the summer, he took in the new experiences of Japan and South Korea with the eagerness of youth and it was an important bonding experience for him and the senior players, who all began to take him under their wing. His team-mates and club staff on that tour constantly remarked to football.london about how mature the teenager was.
There's a feeling of responsibility among these Tottenham players that they can play a part in helping Moore fulfil his remarkable potential, ensuring he does all the right things he needs to do while steering clear of any pitfalls they might have fallen into over the years.
"Mikey, when he first came up I had to remind myself how young he actually is," said James Maddison. "When he first came up he was 16 and more of like a man already when I watch him play, he’s very powerful, and he’s only going to get stronger as he develops into his body.
"It’s quite scary, he’s got a lot of ability, but I don’t want him to feel any pressure because he’s getting a lot of people talking about him, and rightly so, and that’s down to him training well, getting in the first team and getting exposure which is what he wants.
"Firstly, he’s a great kid… a really polite and well-mannered young man, which is a credit to his family because as a senior player with a young lad coming up that’s the first thing you recognise. You don’t want a young lad coming up with that arrogance, and that who does he think he is…
"And then his ability on the ball. We’ve seen it in training and the Spurs fans will be keen to see more in games. But we see it in training. He’s got bags of ability and it looks to me as if he loves the game, loves playing, gets tackled and sometimes falls on the floor and jumps up as if nothing’s happened and he wants the ball again. So I’m really excited to see how his journey goes and try to help him as much as I can."
He added: "I always try to have a little chat to him because I think ‘what would a 16-year-old James Maddison want?’ and he would want one of the senior first team players to put an arm round him and one, treat him like a man, but also give him to advice to try and help him, and accelerate that success and living the journey he is going to have. He has got to go and do it when he gets the opportunity and I’m sure he will, and I’m sure he’s keen and eager to get going and get more minutes. I look forward to it."
Moore's captain Son Heung-min told football.london last week: "He's a fantastic boy and in coming from the academy, you as a club, you look after him even more. He's such a lovely kid and working hard every single day, coming with the first team with that age it's not easy, you know, like sometimes you're very shy.
"But he's showing good personality and working hard, which is very important to me. When you see the young players working hard in the first team you just want to help. You just want to help him.
"Just having him around me and just talking about things, because we are playing in a similar position that if I can help him a little bit with advice, then I'm always open to it. Mikey is also coming to me most of the times and asking questions, which is very fun. I enjoy talking to him. He's a fantastic boy and I'm definitely sure that he can be a fantastic player. There's no doubt because he has such amazing quality.
"As we always say about young players, let's don't give him too much pressure on his shoulders. Just let's enjoy how he develops, how he improves every single day, every single season and as a fan, as supporters, we should just enjoy watching him and he will be, I think, one of the top players."
All eyes were Moore's full debut on Thursday night. Postecoglou has been careful with him because he didn't want to stunt his progress by starting him in the wrong game at the wrong time.
The pouring rain of Budapest and the noise of the home crowd might seem like a difficult backdrop to finally do it, but the Tottenham head coach knew that none of that would faze Moore.
So it proved to be as every single time he got the ball, he drove forward and caused Ferencvaros left-back Cristian Ramirez a constant headache. The Ecuadorian's shirt number was 99. Add another nine to that and it would have made the phone number he would have rung back in the UK, so frequent were the emergencies he was dealing with on the pitch as the teenager in green flew at him again and again.
If you want the perfect statistic to sum up how much Moore's senior team-mates trust him, it's the amount of times he touched the ball during the encounter in Hungary. The 17-year-old touched the ball a remarkable 70 times, just six times fewer than Yves Bissouma, the man in the centre of Spurs' midfield hub.
The goalscoring Sarr for context touched the ball 56 times, Lucas Bergvall 48 and Moore's academy team-mate Will Lankshear's battling, scrapping display ultimately only saw him touch the ball 18 times up top.
Moore's fellow winger Timo Werner had less than half of the teenager's touches of the ball with 31. Two or three of those came when the German really should have handed Moore an assist after the youngster picked him out perfectly in front of goal.
There was some criticism of one of Werner's big misses at Old Trafford that he should have rounded Andre Onana and he seemed to have taken that to heart on Thursday night. He attempted to round Dibusz but with a heavy touch it did not fit the keeper's momentum and the experienced Hungarian simply moved with him, forced him wide and the German's shot sailed into the side-netting.
Moore though had shown exactly what he can produce. He had two shots at goal, one a low volleyed effort from outside the box that showed his technique, and he had a hand in both Tottenham goals with his progressive play and dribbling.
He showed unpredictability to his play, able to get to the byline and pulled the ball low across the six-yard box as Postecoglou drills but also able to drift inside and cause chaos. The first Spurs goal came from the latter, the second from the former as he got high and wide after switching to the left after Werner's exit.
Moore can play on either wing and his partnership with Pedro Porro was starting to form nicely, the Spaniard leading the way on the pitch with 120 touches and he kept trying to get the ball to the 17-year-old.
After the game, Moore had to undertake his first post-match television interview as he spoke to TNT Sports alongside the experienced Ben Davies. He spoke well and admitted that he had no idea he was starting until a couple of hours before the game.
"To be fair I only knew about 4pm today, so yeah it came quick but I was ready to take it," he said. "It is what you work for. Obviously there are a bit of nerves coming into it, but once you get on the pitch you are all right.
"It's a big step but it is one I am ready to take. It's been all right, all the boys have helped me and it's been perfect really so far."
On Postecoglou's input, the teenager added: "He is giving me little tips all the time really. To be fair, him putting me in the team, you get the trust straight away so I am thankful for him starting me and putting his trust in me. He is helping me all the time but so are all the coaching staff."
The youngster also said in his club interview about how, despite his age, he shuts out the noise of the bellowing visiting fans and doesn't allow them to get in his head. He also called it a "special feeling" to be playing alongside academy team-mate Lankshear in the starting XI.
Davies, almost twice Moore's age, said alongside him: "Look this is nothing new to us. We see it every day in training. Mikey works so hard every single day to get these opportunities so when they come, we had no doubts [the young players] would be ready and I thought he was very good tonight."
Moore played for the entire 95 minutes or so and despite tiring slightly towards the end, he showed remarkable fitness for someone who has only played 90 minutes this season once last month for England U19s and once in August for Spurs' U21s.
Postecoglou was delighted with Moore's contribution and had no qualms about keeping him on until the very end.
"I thought he was outstanding. It's brilliant for a 17-year-old to play 90 plus minutes in a European away tie," he told football.london.
"He just handled it superbly, I kind of knew he would and I think it'll help his growth as a footballer once you get through a sort of experience like that. I think he'll grow and evolve and I didn't feel like I needed to take him off. He still looked strong at the end and was still contributing.
"It's just his ability to deal with pressure and keeping the ball in really tight areas and making really good clean decisions for a young guy. It's not easy today, out there you can see the conditions, it always suits defenders because they can fly in with tackles and he got one in the first 30 seconds.
"He kept his feet well and he takes the responsibility of driving inside or taking his man on. He makes good decisions with the ball. He's got so much growth still, but the good thing is he wants to learn, he wants to develop and I couldn't be happier for him but also pretty pleased that he's part of our football club."
There's an excitement among all football fans to rush nowadays to throw any talented academy into the senior starting line-up with a feeling that they must surely be better than what is out there already.
Wayne Rooney as a 16-year-old and now Barcelona's Lamine Yamal are always pointed to as examples of why you have to trust even the youngest players. Postecoglou made it clear though that such young superstars are exceptions to the rule rather than the norm.
As someone who has given plenty of young players their introduction to senior life over the years, the 59-year-old spoke urged some caution while also allowing his own excitement about Moore to seep through.
"I still wouldn't say that [the game has shifted to being one of wonderkids]. I mean how many 17-year-olds are playing in the Premier League?" he asked. "Yeah, Yamal is brilliant but it's not a common thing. It's still pretty rare because you have to take into account, not just their physical maturity at 17 of being able to handle it, their emotional maturity, you've got to be really careful.
"There are always exceptions to the rule and Yamal is certainly one of them, but like I said, if you look at the Premier League, how many 17-year-olds are actually contributing and Mikey is already, which shows that he's got something special, but we've just got to be really careful about how we develop that.
"I think because it's too easy just to say, oh, you know, he's a great young player just throw him in there, especially in the Premier League because of all the leagues probably in Europe, it's the most physically challenging. So young players, the first thing I want to see is can they handle it and to be fair, Mike handles it pretty well, and certainly Archie and Lucas have that, but we've got to be careful with them.
"But at the same time, we've brought some really talented young players to the club and part of my pitch to them was that we will develop them and they will play and it's my responsibility to make sure they do that. I can't shy away from that because the next 18 or 17-year-old who I sign will point to recent experience. So it's important we give them the game time they deserve."
The Tottenham fans will want Moore thrown straight in again against Brighton on Sunday afternoon at the Amex Stadium, but that's a big ask for the youngster after such an intense and draining 95 minutes in the rain on a heavy pitch to then be chucked in against an energetic Seagulls side who have had a week off.
The likelihood is that if Son is not available, which seems to be the case, then Werner, despite that miss, will be trusted again after playing only 64 minutes on Thursday night.
Moore and the Tottenham fans need not worry though. This was a match that showed he's ready and that his team-mates and Postecoglou trust him. The little cameos in the final minutes of games will get longer and longer as the Spurs boss knows he can come on against experienced professionals and cause havoc and create opportunities, while he will also continue to learn the defensive side of the game.
Sunday could start to show that as Werner will also tire and Moore will likely be introduced, if Postecoglou does not start him.
There will also be a healthy rivalry between Spurs and Arsenal fans over who has the better 17-year-old, with Moore's talented England U19 team-mate Ethan Nwaneri breaking through down the road.
Moore will likely start most of Tottenham's European games now after showing his comfort on the continental stage and the first Premier League start won't be too far away either.
Postecoglou will continue to be careful with him and not push his teenage body into his ferocious system too much, too soon, but he will be as proud as the Tottenham supporters were in the Groupama Stadium to have been there on the night when Mikey Moore made his full debut for the club. It felt like the start of something special.
Ange's Angels
Ange Postecoglou laughed when it was put to him that with the Busby Babes and the Fergie Fledglings, could it be time for Ange's Angels?
"Nah, nah, nah, nah, you've got to do better than that. No, no chance," he said with a grin.
For it wasn't just about Mikey Moore. Postecoglou started three other teenagers on the night in Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall and Will Lankshear, while the goalscoring Pape Matar Sarr is hardly ancient at 22. Even Spurs' in-form second goalscorer Brennan Johnson is only 23.
On the bench, Postecoglou had also named academy defenders Alfie Dorrington and Dante Cassanova, 19 and 20 respectively, as well as 18-year-old winger Damola Ajayi - a great experience for all three of them.
Lankshear came into the starting line-up and handled himself well on his debut. He did not look out of place and gave the Ferencvaros centre-backs plenty of problems. The 19-year-old's physical stature and his movement mark him out as being potentially better suited to the rigours of Premier League football than those striking prospects who have come before him in recent years at Spurs.
He might have only had 18 touches of the ball but Lankshear's performance was as much about his off the ball work as it was about what he did with it at his feet. His movement could have brought him two goals had he connected with Werner's cross with his head rather than his shoulder and then got a slightly better connection to a scuffed volley from Porro's ball into the box which bounced up and inches over the crossbar.
He got a key touch in the build-up to Spurs' opening goal and also teed up Sarr for a first half effort with good hold-up play. The forward was also inches away from touching home Porro's effort that struck the foot of the post, while also being denied by a last-gasp challenge in the Ferencvaros box after a swift second half Spurs counter attack.
Postecoglou said Lankshear "led the line well" during his 65 minutes and the Australian could be seen applauding much of what the young striker did throughout the game and shouting words of encouragement to him.
A goal would have been the icing on the cake but the teenager proved to the Tottenham boss that, following on from his goalscoring pre-season exploits, he can be trusted to come on, or start matches, and he will cause problems for the opposition defence as well as holding up the ball as a focal point.
With Richarlison still out, Lankshear has a chance to establish himself as a deputy for Solanke in the immediate future and grab that Premier League debut that is surely on the horizon.
Behind him, Sarr was excellent on the night and started Tottenham off on so many different attacks, as well as showing composure for his own goal. On the other side of the midfield trio, Lucas Bergvall provided moments of good play and others where he held on to the ball for too long.
The 18-year-old Swede was paying the price for Radu Dragusin's red card and his own withdrawal moments later a week ago because he could have benefited from an hour at least in his legs that night.
Instead he only got around eight minutes and it showed a week later on the heavy, wet pitch in Budapest as he tired, took a couple of whacks and struggled as the game wore on to get back in position defensively as a Postecoglou number eight needs to.
The star of the teenagers beyond Moore was Archie Gray. The former Leeds man came with a £40million price tag so it's easy to overlook just how young he is.
Yet he's something special and it's clear in not only his technical ability with the ball and his supreme confidence with it but also his tactical intelligence. The 18-year-old started at centre-back and as Davies struggled in the Postecoglou inverted left-back role, leaving his younger team-mate exposed occasionally, so Gray moved out there for the second half and did the job as if it had always been his position.
There was one moment in the second half when Gray received the ball in a tight position in the right-hand corner next to the Spurs penalty box. He had two Ferencvaros attackers pushing him back towards the byline. There was no panic though, the teenager took one glance up, drew them in and shifted the ball to his right so he could backheel it away from them both and to a team-mate.
The move ended with Bissouma racing up the pitch and playing in Lankshear who was tackled in the other box at the last second.
Another pitch-long run from Gray in the second half down the touchline had hints of Gareth Bale about it and showed just what he's going to be like when the time comes for him to take his place in Tottenham's midfield. He's got the ability to become a Steven Gerrard-esque figure in the Spurs engine room.
"I wouldn't say I chucked [the youngsters] in. With all these things, you've got to be really careful with young players. I certainly am," said Postecoglou. "The first thing is that they're part of our first team squad, not because I want some young players, it's because they've earned that spot and then it's about how to help them develop and the moments we need to put them in there, the moments we need to hold off. And we can't discount the fact that Archie is 18, Lucas is 18.
"I thought Archie was brilliant today, we asked him to play in two different positions and it's incredible how he just adjusts and he's able to bring his game to wherever he put him.
"Lucas worked hard and Will was unlucky with a couple of moments when we could have got a goal. These guys are there because they've earned their spot, but they're an important part of our development because whilst we want to be a team that has an impact this year, it's important we're developing players along the way so that whatever sort of period of potential for success or opportunity for success exists, it's elongated because of the young players you got through.
"I just think tonight all those boys will come to me and go 'ok that was tough, it was different, but we got through it and we won'. "
On Gray's switch from centre-back to left-back in the second half, Postecoglou explained: "I felt like we were starting to get on top and stronger. Archie has got a great capacity to run, and I thought putting him at left-back he would be able to get forward for us more, and Ben with his ability to defend and his left-foot meant he could get the ball out to the left side.
"I just wanted to use Archie’s energy, as much as anything. He did a good job for us first half but I just felt in the second half we could put them under more pressure if we had somebody on the left-hand side in the same way as the right-hand side who could get forward and get back. I thought he did that really well. In his first run he ran the whole pitch. It helped us balance our attacks on both sides."
Call them what you want - Ange's Angels, Ange's Adolescents or even just the Tottenham Teens - there's something being built in N17 with the number of talented youngsters knocking on Postecoglou's door and, as the Australian says, Spurs are set up very nicely for an exciting present and future.
Brilliant Brennan Johnson
The Brennan Johnson freight train just keeps rolling on. When he struck the crossbar after coming on in the second half, the stats were already being tweaked to 'four goals in four starts'.
The 23-year-old soon dispensed with the need for that as he stepped inside with a lovely touch to control a lofted Maddison pass and squeezed a left-footed shot between a defender's legs and in off the left-hand post.
That meant Johnson has scored in five consecutive games and he's become such a key figure in Tottenham's uptick in results. He steps up when needed and has scored important goals in important moments, three of them ending up being the match-winning goals.
Postecoglou grinned after the game when a reporter had to apologise for asking about Johnson yet again, suggesting that it was not coincidence that the Wales international is constantly putting the ball inside that left-hand post after hours upon hours on the training ground.
"No, [it's not a coincidence] and I thought he was unlucky with the one that hit the bar as well. Look, he is in a great vein of form and obviously feels good about himself at the moment, really confident," said the Spurs boss.
"I guess with all attacking players, goals and assists, they kind of thrive on that stuff, but I've said before he has been fantastic for us. Even if you look at his figures last year. He moved to a big club and still got a decent return of goals [and assists].
"It was always curious to me why people were singling him out because if you compare him to other wingers in the league, his numbers always stacked up anyway and now he has probably bypassed all of them. I had no doubt he would make a massive impact for us. Now he is making not just an impact but changing games for us. Again, still a young guy, still working hard and wants to learn, so that's great for us."
Spurs shared on social media after Johnson's goal an image that Maddison had already posted a couple of days before, with Johnson's face overlaid on to an image of the Brazilian Ronaldo - a hybrid the Tottenham fans have labelled 'Brennaldo'.
Johnson's exit from social media means he will not have seen the club's post but he is making a powerful case for footballers stepping away entirely from the toxic unpleasantness that can exist online.
Maddison told football.london before the game that he believes more was made of Johnson's Instagram deactivation that there actually was to it, but that he certainly wouldn't be advising his friend to rush back to it.
"Brennan is first and foremost a very good friend, I’m close with him. I think a lot has made of him coming off social media which to him was probably not such a big thing," he said. "He’s the type of guy to have a break from that stuff anyway. People have maybe read too much into it too much but since then he's gone four in four so I don’t think I’ll be telling him to redownload anytime soon!
"He’s a great kid, a brilliant player. No-one has every doubted that but he’s really showing it at the minute consistently. It’s not easy to score four games in a row. He's a brilliant lad and a great friend of mine so I’m always there for him.
"That [Brennaldo] picture was a bit tongue-in-cheek, we found it funny when it was put in our group chat. But hopefully he can continue this form because he’s a real threat for us. He can do damage to a lot of oppositions in the Premier League and Europe so I like to see him in that rich vein of form."
As Postecoglou said, Johnson is one of the in-form wingers in the Premier League right now and he has confidence running through him. Every defence will be watching him closely, trying to end his remarkable run and in doing so they will allow space for Tottenham's other attackers to profit.
One of those will be Dominic Solanke who received his first call-up to the England squad on Thursday in almost seven years. Ivan Toney's move to the Saudi Pro League has taken him out of the England picture and Tottenham's striker has grabbed the advantage like a true poacher should.
"Credit to Dom, it’s reward for his hard work," said Postecoglou. "I’ve got no doubt that he will be a fantastic player for us and if he continues as I know he can, he’ll be a great asset for the England team."
With three goals in his past three starts for Spurs, Solanke is also in fine form right now and that he only came on for the final 10 minutes in Budapest will leave him fresh and ready for the trip to Brighton this weekend.
Once again Postecoglou's decision to rest players paid off. Micky van de Ven and Rodrigo Bentancur will be rested up and ready to step out at the Amex Stadium as will Destiny Udogie, who Postecoglou believes could be fit to return if his involvement in training on Friday and Saturday goes to plan.
He also has Djed Spence, who was left at home to prepare for the game in case he had to fill in for Udogie or potentially Porro, who played the full match on Thursday night. Radu Dragusin is also ready if called upon.
Solanke barely got on the pitch, while Johnson, Maddison and Kulusevski all played a little over 25 minutes each, Johnson of course only further boosting his confidence.
That's seven players who will be fit and fresh to face the energetic Brighton side that will be waiting for them in what will be a battle of the high line on Sunday.
Maddison's own England snub despite his fine form will be tough for him to take but could benefit Tottenham as that fire will continue to burn brightly within the midfielder to fight his way back into the national team.
"Whenever in life you have setbacks, it can go one of two ways, and the gaffer has said that before," said Maddison ahead of the squad announcement. "It is how you deal with that. You can either let it swallow you up a little bit and feel sorry for yourself and go down that route, or you can respond in the right way or the only way to get back to being successful and getting back in the England squad and playing at the top level for Spurs again.
"It wasn’t a massive thing [missing out on the last squad]. I feel like I actually finished the back end of last season quite well. I always want to prove people wrong. Any sort of doubters, people who question, I always want to prove them wrong.
"That is where I get some of my hunger from, wanting to be the best version of myself for Tottenham, my team-mates and people close to me, but also to prove people wrong who doubt me. I get satisfaction from that. I feel really good at the minute and I feel sharp. Hopefully that can continue."
It will be Postecoglou's 50th game in charge of Spurs already this weekend. The Australian is getting a great version of his Tottenham Hotspur right now, with spirit, style and goals and thrilling youngsters bursting on to the scene, all the while with an exciting feeling that it can all still get even better.
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