It was Glory, Glory Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday night.
Spurs supporters have waited a long time to see their team lift a piece of silverware and they finally got their wish as Tottenham beat Manchester United 1-0 in the final of the UEFA Europa League.
It was not a vintage final, by any stretch, with just the one goal being enough to hand Spurs victory and end their 17-year long trophy drought. It was also the first piece of European silverware the club have won in 41 years.
All the talking can now stop about Spurs not getting the job done and not being a team that wins trophies. Brennan Johnson was the hero on the night, scoring the only goal, although it took a massive deflection off Luke Shaw, but there were plenty of massive performances all round.
Defenders Pedro Porro, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven and Destiny Udogie all got ten out of ten in our football.london player ratings from a special night in Bilbao, with van de Ven provising another match-winning moment with an incredible acrobatic clearance off the line from Rasmus Hojlund’s header.
As the final whistle sounded, the Spurs supporters erupted, the entire bench ran onto the field of play and years of hurt were finally over.
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All that was left was to pick up winners medals and lift the heaviest European trophy of all.
However, things did not quite go to plan. The entire Spurs squad were out in Bilbao as a celebration for their efforts in getting the team to this showpiece final. And every player, injured or otherwise, went up to collect a medal.
Waiting until the end, obviously were captain Son Heung-min and vice-captain Cristian Romero. And Romero was left utterly bewildered as he was not given a medal.
The final three players to go up did not get a medal, Rodrigo Bentancur also missing out, as UEFA had run out! The look on Romero’s face was incredulous as he spoke to Dominic Solanke and gestured around his neck that he did not have a medal.
UEFA later apologised for the mistake, saying the duo were given medals in the dressing room aftewards, but Son was left to lift the trophy without his own winners’ medal around his neck.
They only went and did it! Click here to listen to a special episode of Gold & Guest Talk Tottenham on Spurs’ Europa League triumph.
