It’s about time Tottenham Hotspur dared to think big again

The fact remains that this is a club with a default setting of one step forward followed by two back, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Glory glory Tottenham Hotspur. The chant, sung to the tune of ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’, has also been appropriated by fans of Manchester United and Leeds United down the years but Spurs supporters have been delivering that particular ditty as far back as the 1960s, a decade which began with the North London club claiming an historic first domestic league and cup double of the century.

It’s not the wittiest nor most original of terrace tunes. The second verse consists of one phrase, namely that ‘Tottenham are the greatest team the world has ever seen’. Repeating it three times may have been symbolic of an actual belief back then. Now it smacks of self-delusion, something the club has long laboured under.