Spurs were 20th in the last Premier League mood rankings; they are not there anymore. And the Quad is still on but Liverpool sit 3rd.
In a way, Spurs’ split-personality leaps up and down this table reflects the truest essence of Spursiness. And also our clear inability to make an instant snap judgement on a player. Dejan Kulusevski, we are very, very sorry…
You can revel in the full majesty of our wrongness in the last instalment here…
1. Tottenham (20)
When dropping them from third to 20th last time out we admonished ourselves ‘for putting them as high as third a month ago’. We’re not making that mistake again. They go straight to number one because right now they are giddy and frankly unbearable. The last update was written in that period when Spurs’ new signings looked underwhelming – we foolishly said they had been ‘absolutely diddled’ on Dejan Kulusevski based on his ponderous early substitute appearances, a jerk of the knee which has now ruled us out for the season – and they were losing meekly at home to your Wolveses and Southamptons.
We noted that their third-place rating in January was based on ‘a decent unbeaten run, favourites to finish fourth, and the at least theoretical prospect of significant improvement to the first team before the month was out’. Turned out that February was a mirage and Spurs are now on another even better run, are definitely favourites to finish fourth, may have made the single most impactful improvement to a starting XI in the history of January Transfer Windows and have seemingly transformed overnight into a peak Conteball outfit. Seven games ago after a defeat to Burnley that seemed to tip Conte over the edge, Spurs had a negative goal difference. It now stands at +19. After the Burnley match, Spurs had 31 goals from 24 games. They’ve scored 25 since then. Yet undoubtedly the most fun part of all this is the sure and certain knowledge they will be 14th when we do it again in six weeks’ time….
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