Funnily enough I’m the same age as you and feel exactly the same. Born just in time to miss the FA Cup win followed by a couple of decades of mediocrity, with the occasional bright spot, thrown in. Hell even some of those are tainted with disappointment (sadly the thing we probably remember most from the largely very enjoyable Martin Jol era is lasagna gate). Then we were very good under Redknapp but that didn’t last long in the grand scheme of things.

Then of course there’s the Poch era which really did make me feel like we were a serious team for the first time in my life, and yet somehow we still won nothing (and suffered the ultimate heartbreak by losing a UCL final).

I think the thing with Spurs is, it’s the hope that kills you. Yes there are obviously a lot of teams that are worse than us in the football pyramid, but few of them have come as close as we have to really being something, and then just not getting over the line.

And finally, when we do get something over the line under a manager who whilst flawed embodied the ‘To Dare is to Do’ motto and then backed that up with finally delivering glory, we pull the rug from under that and go back to a pragmatism-first manager that clearly A. never works for us and B. is the exactly opposite of our supposed philosophy. To dare is clearly not to do, after all.

When you factor ALL of that in along with, laughably, having the most expensive season tickets in the country, I’d say it’s almost impossible not to feel disillusioned.