If you're a seasoned Tottenham fan, then you know what we're like and last night's result will not have come as a surprise - but that doesn't stop it being a big disappointment.
People will immediately point the finger at the manager, why didn't Niko Kranjcar start? Why was William Gallas on the right? Don't start Jermain Defoe with Roman Pavlychenko.
I have my own opinions, but Harry Redknapp will have thought long and hard about the most suitable line-up for last night's game and, given our injury list, he'll have had to play people out of position and make decisions he didn't want to.
He will have had good reason for every decision and at some stage the players really have to assume responsibility.
In Hunter Davies' famous Spurs book The Glory Game, written in 1972, Alan Mullery says, "With Spurs, I think we could do with a bit more of the killer instinct. Players will go out on the field when we're playing sides at the bottom of the league in a sort of complacent frame of mind."
So, it's not a new thing. Inconsistency has always been a problem at Tottenham; maybe it's because we tend to look up rather than down. On Planetspurs.com, Bracknellyid says, "Even during the dark days of mediocrity we were always more concerned about the possibility of a European qualification rather than a relegation dogfight."
This is seemingly ingrained in fans and players alike. In interviews our players now mention winning the title and the Champions League, without ever qualifying just how important it is we keep up with Chelsea, Liverpool and even Sunderland and Bolton.
Maybe now, with success in sight, players start taking their eye off the ball when it comes to playing teams lower in the table. The opposition may be a smaller side, but it's no less important a game than playing the teams at the top - or even Europe's elite.
Bad results don't come along too often at Spurs these days - four times this season we have won three games on the trot. But when things do go wrong, they seem to go wrong quite spectacularly.
Before last night's game, people claimed that, by attacking, Blackpool would play into our hands, leaving space that we could exploit. In truth, it seems to have worked the other way round. After conceding early on to yet another clumsy penalty, we pushed forward in search of goals but Blackpool twice hit us on the break.
We had 25 attempts to Blackpool's 8, and 7 corners to their 1. This will only give fuel to those fans angry that we didn't buy a striker in Janurary.
I thought that 'Arry would come out after the game and curse our bad luck, but he pointed the finger very directly at poor finishing and you get the impression that he is growing tired of our misfiring forwards.
We all know our forwards know where the goal is, but their attitudes need an overhaul. Jermain Defoe needs to play for those around him, not just himself, Pavlyuchenko needs to knuckle down and not whine to the press at the first opportunity and Peter Crouch needs to channel some sort of killer instinct - not smiling and sticking his tongue out when he knows he should have done better.
Arsene wenger once said of Arsenal's quick rise to success, "If you eat caviar every day, sometimes it is difficult to come back to sausages and mash.
This group of players have to realise that, if they want to continue dining with the Kings and Princes of European football next season, they've got to pile through a few plates of bangers and gravy in the meantime.
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