The leading expert on Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Tweeted this during the match and for me, it healthily sums up what we witnessed yesterday.
https://twitter.com/HaroldHotspur/status/820258004088029184
This wasn’t one of those ‘it was only so and so’ games that you take nothing away from, that you learn nothing from.
West Brom aren’t Arsenal or Chelsea, I’m not stupid, but their form and general demeanour this season doesn’t place them alongside the other deadbeats that got thumped Tottenham this term.
Dele Alli’s chips to Kane the resulting goals were joyful to watch. Not just because they reminded an old scroat like me of Archibald and Crooks, but because they encapsulated the invention and the confidence that pulsed through the entire team.
The Wanyana/Mousa axis was Champions League winningly good. Praise that high comes easy when you play that well.
Every Spurs player was unrelenting. Like they knew something the visitors didn’t. West Brom gradually became confused and then resigned. Pulis was mumbling something about a ‘a bad day’ but it is extremely difficult to imagine who might have had a good day against us.
Eriksen gave his all. And by this I do not mean he covered more ground than Fisons. The Dane swung like Sinatra; metronomic is somewhat of an understatement.
It was Eriksen’s performance that set not just the tempo but the mood, the purpose and cynicism with which West Brom were dissected, again and again and again.
This was the best performance of the season so far. If you didn’t watch it, I implore you to get hold of it and watch it. You’ll learn nothing by reading reviews.
Some may ask ‘is this is not an unlikely game to coo over? Anyone holding that view doesn’t understand what they were watching.
More importantly, you’ll carry on wandering about gushing over less interesting performances as if they were as good as this one, when they were not.
This was far better than the Man City win, this was positively lightyears ahead of the Chelsea win.
Even Kane, one the most irritating strikers since Robbie Keane, was continuously sublime.
The burning question is, can we keep it going? We’ll know more after we play Manchester City at the Etihad on the 21st of the month.
We’ll know even more once we return to the treadmill of the Europa.
