We’re at the halfway point. Up until this point, any predictions, assessments or thoughts on the season as a whole are, rightly, deemed as inappropriate and premature. Now though, the door is open for meaningless journalistic platitudes, vague generalisations and assessments that have little to no value: and that is exactly what I intend to cash in on.

The following results, from my perspective, act as a relevant summation of our season when grouped together:

Tottenham 0-0 Swansea:

Tottenham 1-2 Chelsea:

Manchester United 1-0 Tottenham:

Tottenham 2-3 West Ham:

Tottenham 5-2 Southampton:

Tottenham 3-1 Dortmund:

Tottenham 4-1 Liverpool:

Tottenham 3-1 Real Madrid:

(I’ll forgive you for not watching the Swansea highlights as, quite frankly, they are infuriatingly shit.)

So where are we? Are we better than last year? Worse? The same? Lots of pointless rhetorical questions. I am here to offer my utterly unprofessional sentiment, which carries about as much value as a Zimbabwean 3p coin:

‘Eh.’

In some respects, this season has been phenomenal. You only need to look above to see some of the sensational results we’ve had. We broke our curse against Liverpool, we dicked Dortmund and ruined Real. 5 years ago, this season would already be viewed as one of the best we’ve had in recent memory. However, our sensational and formidable rise under Mauricio Pochettino for the last few years has led to us expecting more.

Some fans are not satisfied. Meaningless comparisons abound between us and Manchester City, despite the fact that we are not a hollow, husk of a club masquerading as a good football team rather than the money flinging, corporate embodiment-of-the -problems-with-contemporary-football, that they actually are. City are beyond comparison, simply because they have paid to be. Forget the title. Let’s get second, win the F.A Cup and win the Champion’s League. Will all of that happen? Absolutely not. Could some of it? Eh maybe? Will it matter a year from now when we’re free of the void of happiness that is Wembley? Absolutely not.

We are a team in transition, with a paltry spending record when compared against the clubs around us. We are above Arsenal, 3 points off Liverpool in 4th, 5 points off Chelsea in 3rd and 6 points off of United in 2nd. That’s not a huge gap and we’ve overcome more in the past. Especially with half a season ahead of us. Be calm, fellow yids, warm yourselves in the embrace of knowing that our time at Wembley will end, and though we may take some time to settle in our new stadium, it represents the near end of years of slow progression. From a side that finished mid-table regularly when I was younger, to one that has challenged twice for the title in the last two seasons. Our progress is something to be exceedingly proud of.

So where are we this season? Well, watch the videos above and I’ll let you be the judge. What I will say, is that we are defined right now by growth and the acceptance that although we may be handicapped by finances at the moment, we have competed with the best in the league, beaten some of the best in Europe and held our heads high in spite of all the disadvantages we have been handed by the ludicrous monetary demands of a league on steroids.

Keep faith, be calm and love Spurs. The rest will come.

P.S- Those of you wondering why I didn’t include the Arsenal game: because I’m still really bitter about it and why the fuck would you actually want to watch that again?

P.S.S- Criticism of Poch is fine and dandy, calling for him to be sacked is equatable with near criminal idiocy.

COYS.