Im bored. I'm bored of the problems, bored of the concerns and bored of the questions.
Is our season finished? Have our hopes of fourth spot evaporated with our goalscoring ability? Has Harry Redknapp taken us as far as we can go (a stupid and all too common question)? The list is endless and relentless.
Yes, if we don't beat chelsea today, then we are probably not going to qualify for the Champions League. But it's not mathematically impossible and, until that point, i'll be backing the team to the hilt.
Vital run-ins are not the time or place for post mortems.
Recent weeks have led me to suspect that as a group, our squad is running out of steam for this term. The will and the ambition is clearly there, we came back to draw against Arsenal, but it doesn't look like there's enough gas in the tank to see us over the finishing line.
To me, that's perfectly understandable and perfectly acceptable. The season started with an almighty bang in August and we kept it going until Christmas, in January we began to roll with the punches a bit, bouncing back off the ropes on occasions but focusing efforts and raising our game for the two tough but ultimately successful legs against milan.
The fact that we are still fifth in the table is actually a minor miracle. the only questin that Spurs fans should be asking is 'have we enjoyed this season?'
We attacked a new level of challenge with style and we reacquainted the club with a generation of football fans around Europe beginning to think 'whatever happened to Tottenham Hotspur?'. The answer, from those with a sound mind, is always an almighty 'Yes'.
If we can't beat Chelsea today, then we'll probably all look to the West Brom game as the day our hopes faded. But can't is a big word, and it's a word that this Spurs team don't always know the meaning of. So here's hoping...
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