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On the day that Daniel Levy celebrated his 20th anniversary as the Tottenham chairman, it was perhaps inevitable that the lack of silverware on his watch was highlighted. The return amounts to a single League Cup.
José Mourinho describes trophies as the “salt and pepper of football,” the essential seasoning, and so has Levy’s reign been bland? Hardly. Yet how everybody connected to the club craves something this season, very possibly in the Europa League. Against the 21-times champions of Croatia, Spurs took another step towards the dream. In the 45th game of a marathon campaign, they proved too strong for Dinamo Zagreb, wearing them down to put themselves in charge ahead of next Thursday’s second-leg. Continue reading...