Ange Keeps His Promise, But What Promise Do Man Utd Have?

Wednesday's low-quality Europa League final leaves Ruben Amorim on thin ice.

By Patric Ridge

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“I don’t usually win things. I always win things in my second year.”

It’s a hell of a lot of pressure to put on yourself, especially when in charge of a club that are the perenial nearly men of the Premier League.

And even for all Ange Postecoglou’s bullishness, perhaps it was a comment he was regretting as his Tottenham side slipped down and down the table, and out of the domestic cups.

But Postecoglou does not seem like the type of person, the type of manager, who lives with his regrets. He lives and dies by his own sword, and on Wednesday in Bilbao, he delivered on his promise.

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Tottenham are Europa League champions. They beat Manchester United 1-0 in one of the lowest-quality European finals in recent memory. Brennan Johnson’s scruffy 42nd-minute goal proving decisive.

It was a poor goal befitting of a poor game, not that Spurs, their fans, or Postecoglou will care. It was also the kind of game that should have been expected — after all, this was 16th in the Premier League take on 17th. And 17th won.