Then Campbell was injured impeding a raking Parlour run down the right flank. From the resulting free kick, it was clear that the tide had turned. Vieira had equalized while Sol was being treated, Campbell was substituted, and from then on there was no conceivable way that Spurs were ever going to win or score. The fact that the final score was 2-1 was due to a good King Canute impression from Neil Sullivan, and pitiful finishing from Arsenal. Spurs are million miles away from Arsenal in everything football.

The only thing to look forward to as a Spurs fan is the beginning of a new era and the promise that the next year will at least be more stylish than the last. Gone are the bad old days where all that mattered was the results. This philosophy like communism is sound in its foundation, but lacking when implemented. George's results based philosophy got us no higher up the table than Gerry's forget-the-midfield ethos. Lets not fool ourselves, if these were successful times we would have forgotten about the performances but it was more fun under Ossie and ecstasy under Tel.

So what is Glenn’s manifesto. A cull of F&M proportions needs to begin. I do hope that Young and Thelwell make a living out of the game - just not at Tottenham. These are the first on the pyre. Gardner, Doherty, King and Tarrico escape just. Worthwhile reserves. Freund, Korsten, and Anderton should mysteriously disappear from the midfield - just like in League games. Sherwood and Leonhardsen are good squad players and deserve their reprieve. Sherwood for last years work. Davies and Etherington are promising.

Up front, Les should go, too expensive for what he provides. Iversen and Rebrov form the basis of the future. Glenn is more likely to use these players as go-betweens rather than burning them in one huge pile - unfortunately. They will form the unsteady bridge between the Spurs that he takes over and the one he envisions.

Glenn has £50 million to spend. Just like a fantasy league competition, and maybe with fantasy money. Nicholas Butt and Philip Neville are the first players that he supposedly wants. Butt would be a good signing on the premise that you can’t win games without winning the ball. His arrival would leave Sherwood and Leonhardson to rumbust between box to box. He may be attracted at being a bigger fish in a smaller pond. Doubt it somehow. Still needing proper width, there is talk of Ginola coming back. Probably not. His year on the sidelines with his aging legs may have bottomed him. Not the player for a five-year plan. Leave Simon Davies develop on the right.

Jan Venegoor of Hesselink and Francis Jeffers have been mentioned as replacements for Les. Jody Morris, Kachloul, Titov and Bulatov mooted as midfield additions and Bridge and Richards for the back four. The real beginning is now under way. Hoddle can now get to grips with the job of changing the entire outlook at Spurs. Coaching them in how to pass a ball from the back to the strikers. I don't know where we can turn to if Glenn fails, but luckily I can't see that happening, it just might take time.