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Tottenham 1-4 Brighton (Solanke pen ’17 | Hinshelwood 51’, 64’, O’Riley pen 33’, Gomez 90+3)

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM – Someone at Berocca ought to be getting a pay rise. It has been a season of football miracles but the fact these Tottenham players managed 90 minutes after partying like it was 1984 has to be right up there.

Goals are supposed to be the only statistic that matters but there was much number-crunching to take in during the final day thrashing by Brighton. Goals conceded: Four. League defeats: 22. Position: 17th. Forty points? No. Brighton attempts: 23. And fans inside the stadium who cared about any of the above? Absolutely zero.

It couldn’t have really been any other way. How do you make sense of a season in which Spurs recorded their lowest finish since 1977 and still provided their supporters with the best night of many of their lives in Bilbao?

The one man who has to weigh up that peculiar paradox is Daniel Levy, a chairman who does not usually illicit much sympathy. Yet not many would want to be in his shoes as he ponders Ange Postecoglou’s future.

It was just three minutes into the game that the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium began singing the Australian’s name. “Ange In” read the banner.

Throughout the match, there was an outpouring of love for him and once the lap of honour was done, his was the final chant echoing around the ground. They bellowed it in defiance at jibes from the Brighton end that he was getting “sacked in the morning”.

On Friday, 220,000 people had lined the streets of north London to serenade Postecoglou, who delighted them with another prophecy.

In September, he promised that he “always wins things in his second season”. Now he declared that “in all the best television series, season three is better than season two”, though he later joked he should have given that analogy more thought. “Sometimes they kill off the main character.”

That was not his only brilliant one-liner. “Dickens said it the best,” he told the club’s in-house TV. “It’s been the best of times and the worst of times.”

Despite everything, Spurs are only three or four signings away from building on their Europa League triumph and Champions League qualification has added at least £100m to their transfer kitty.

A central midfielder, a winger, another centre-back and left-back will be the priorities this summer, along with keeping their existing stars – particularly Cristian Romero, who is attracting interest from La Liga.

Levy has to decide whether Postecoglou, having guided Spurs to their first silverware in 17 years, has earned the right to oversee that rebuild. Whatever call the chairman makes is likely to be divisive and emotion cannot be a factor in his decision.

The only real downer on Spurs’ end-of-season party was when Levy briefly appeared on the big screens – he was met with jeers, that were fortunately drowned out by the rendition of Glory, Glory Tottenham Hotspur blaring from the PA system.

Will the Europa League likewise drown out memories of everything else that has happened over the past 10 months? In terms of Postecoglou’s legacy, whether he stays or goes his status as a legend is cemented. In his own words, “we’ve given them a night and a couple of subsequent days that will live with them forever.”

“I’m so confident about what we can build at this football club,” he said afterwards. “And I want to push on and take it to the next level and we’ll see whether that happens or not.

“My gut feeling is I feel right now that I’ve done something that no one believed I could. And I shouldn’t be sitting here talking about it [my future].”

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There is often a contrast between matchgoing fans and those on social media but it was clear those present on the day felt indebted to him. Whatever is said online, before the final in Bilbao Postecoglou also noted how “kind” the supporters he met had been to him. For some, they will still want change but would be happy to see him go out on a high. There will be plenty of others who have no more appetite for another change of manager.

When a group of club legends gave the squad a guard of honour and Son Heung-min brought out the trophy, there was a particularly distinguished guest at the end of the line. Keith Burkinshaw is a month shy of his 90th birthday but the last Spurs boss to win a European trophy before Postecoglou was there on the pitch – curiously, that 1984 Uefa Cup was his parting gift as he had already resigned due to differences with the board.

This time around it is ultimately a question of whether Levy believes the prognosis that injuries derailed this season and that the league was sacrificed in pursuit of a trophy. There will also be pressure to invest heavily to prevent another such injury crisis, particularly with Champions League football ahead.

Levy deserves credit for persevering with the Postecoglou project even if there were plenty of moments when they might have parted ways.

The atmosphere against Brighton may well have backed him into a corner, however, and dispensing with such a popular head coach would be controversial. This is a football club that for the last few days has felt high on life – and any chairman would be reluctant to disrupt that.

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