Samuel Gardiner - Sports Journalism

Europa League Final: Now that the dust has settled, where do Spurs go from here? Ange Postecoglou lifting the Europa League trophy – in his second season As the final whistle sounded in Bilbao on Wednesday, the relief and jubilation for the Tottenham Hotspur fans around the globe was there for all to see. The seventeen-year wait for major silverware, since a League Cup victory in 2008 at Wembley against Chelsea, had finally ended, with Brennan Johnson’s goal enough to see off Manchester United in the showpiece in the northern Spanish city. What’s more, Europa League victory for Spurs secured their place back in the Champions League for the first time since the 2022/23 season. But will this glorious failure be overshadowed by such a disappointing, dismal league campaign, their lowest finish since relegation in 1977? It has been a massively disappointing domestic season for Tottenham Hotspur and captain Heung-min Son The 2024/25 domestic campaign started promisingly: five...

  FK Bodø/Glimt v Tottenham Hotspur: UEFA Europa League Semi Final Second Leg Preview   James Maddison scored the second goal for Tottenham last week… but injury will rule him out of the second leg in Norway   It’s the biggest night in the history of FK Bodø/Glimt. A European semi-final seemed inconceivable for the Norwegian minnows when they were promoted back to the top-tier Eliteserien in 2019, then still very much a part-time club. But six years later, under the management of long-term boss Kjetil Knutsen and driven by a hard-working squad with very little foreign influence, they are just 90 minutes and a two-goal deficit away from the greatest night of the club’s history, bar none. All that stands in their way is Tottenham Hotspur, who would consider themselves European giants compared to the obscurity of their opponents from north of the Arctic Circle. While their Norwegian counterparts were surviving relegation by the skin of their teeth in 2019, Sp...