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The ten year challenge is all the rage right now and for Tottenham Hotspur the past decade has certainly been good to them.

Across social media people have been sharing a photo of themselves ten years ago and another one of them now to show the difference a decade makes.

Many Spurs players have taken part, with Harry Winks' photo in particular showing a contrast as he was only 12 back in 2009.

However, it is the club's own snapshot from ten years ago that provides the biggest contrast.

For a shot of the Premier League table on January 17 in 2009, shows that Tottenham were bottom of the league, with just 20 points from 21 games, albeit with a game in hand on some of their rivals above.

Harry Redknapp had taken over as manager from Juande Ramos in October of 2008 and despite an early pick up in results, Spurs had continued to hover around the bottom with all the teams tightly packed down there.

Martin Jol had pushed Spurs up the table after years of mid-table mediocrity, but Ramos' reign had seen them plummet back down - albeit with a League Cup win - and Redknapp had to sort the mess out.

It was the signing of five players in the January transfer window that would eventually get Spurs back on track, with Jermain Defoe, Robbie Keane and Pascal Chimbonda all returning to the club with Wilson Palacios and Carlo Cudicini also coming in. Tottenham eventually moved up the table and finished eighth in the table, losing out in the League Cup final to Manchester United on penalties.

From then on Tottenham have continued to improve, albeit with the usual managerial merry-go-round until Mauricio Pochettino's arrival in May 2014.

Spurs have gone from that bottom of the league spot to two fourth-place finishes and a Champions League quarter-final under Redknapp, to their then record Premier League points total under Andre Villas-Boas and then the heights of Pochettino, which has so far brought fifth, third, second and third-place finishes as Spurs have cemented their position as a top three side.

The club currently sit third in the table once more, heading into their match at Fulham this Sunday.

Off the pitch the club has been transformed as well with a £25m new training ground in Enfield, moving from their own Chigwell base, and White Hart Lane is no more, with the club's enormous 62,062-seater new stadium set to open in the coming months after a temporary stay at Wembley.

Silverware has still alluded Tottenham in the past decade, but the fans will be hoping that with their trajectory over the past decade those are in the pipeline.

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