Tottenham Hotspur FC, founded in 1882 with a Shakespearean character Sir Harry Hotspur as a mascot, are back as a force to be reckoned with in English soccer. The Premier League's youngest team earned a league-best goal difference, a club-best Premiership finish (third), and at times we earned the sobriquet of being England's most thrilling footballing side with several awesome wins including, beating ManU 3-0, ManCity 4-1, Stoke 4-0, Sunderland 4-1, West Ham 4-1, Bournemouth 5-1.
It's been the best top division finish in most of our Los Angeles Spurs supporters' lives, finishing above four of the traditional big-5 teams -- City, United, Liverpool and Chelsea for the first time in the Premiership's history. And it was also our club's first title tilt since the glorious and incomparable Tottenham double-winning side of 1960-61 led by captain Danny Blanchflower who said words, in his inimitable Irish lilt, that epitomize Spurs and separate us from teams who put results over entertainment, who park the bus, who forsake possession football for only counterattacking and set play opportunities.
As "Danny Boy" eloquently noted:
The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.
We were led by an incarnation of Harry "Hotspur" himself, the Premiership's leading goalscorer Harry Kane (25 league goals) -- and as the song goes, "He's one of our own!" We were also inspired by mercurial freshman Dele Alli (PFA Young Player of the Year and BBC's Goal of the Season), and by new defensive stalwart Toby Alderweireld, and our onfield captain and goalie Hugo Lloris.
Our onfield success was inspired by our virtuoso conductor cum chairman, Daniel Levy and his brilliant second year signing and our inspirational manager, Mauricio Pochettino and his superb training staff.
For all of our 38 PL matches, we LA Spurs fans congregated at our "church," our local pub, The Greyhound Bar -- kudos to co-owners Mateo Glassman, Ryan Julio, James Bygrave and our head barmaid Lindsay English, Krystal and crew. Even though LA Spurs are the largest Premiership supporters club in California, we share our success with our growing, fellow Spurs supporters clubs across America.
The Greyhound's guest visitors during the season included: the Copa America trophy (upcoming tournament June 3-26 in the U.S.); the great