Should Tottenham be upset about letting Golden Glove slip?

Hugo Lloris, when Sam Clucas scored for Hull, narrowly missed out on a share of the Golden Glove with Thibaut Courtois, but how “devastated” should Spurs players be?

Kieran Trippier, in an interview with the Standard, said the following:

"“We are devastated for Hugo,” said Trippier. “We really wanted to get the Golden Glove for Hugo and I am gutted we didn’t. The way we gave the goal away wasn’t like us. We all wanted to keep a clean sheet for him.”"

Devastated is a strong word.

Should Lloris, who fell one clean sheet shy of Courtois’ 16, and company feel forlorn and heartbroken about not winning the synthetically hyped up award?

Trippier’s point of view shows how dedicated Tottenham are to winning every possible accolade on the tediously lengthy list of potential “awards”. Spurs are replete with winners, all of whom have an innate winning mentality. It’s a mentality that can’t be learned or taught. You either have it or you don’t.

They shouldn’t, however, get caught up the media hysteria the Golden Glove is accompanied by, especially after taking into account how many other categories Spurs were the king of the castle of this season.

Top honours for Tottenham

Dele Alli won the PFA Young Player of the year for the second year running. Harry Kane, playing seven fewer games than Romelu Lukaku, won the Golden Boot again. He also scored five hat tricks, easily the most in the league.

Spurs scored 86 goals to top all teams. That’s 30 more goals than Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Spurs scored only seven fewer total goals than all three relegation teams combined.

As far as total team clean sheets go? Spurs, with 17 clean sheets, topped that list too. Only Manchester United managed parity on that front.

Tottenham are also the best at home in England, a more well documented stat. In fact, Spurs obtained the third most home points (53) of the Premier League era. We conceded the fewest home goals by a large margin, allowing nine to Chelsea’s 17. Compounding the team’s dominance, Spurs kept 12 home clean sheets, topping the charts once more.

Laying claim to the best overall defence in the top flight, Spurs conceded 16 goals all season, three fewer than second-place Manchester United.

The team’s top three goal scorers – Kane (29), Alli (18) and Son Heung-Min (14) – bagged more goals than any other triumvirate in England. They scored a combined 61 goals, more than 14 Premier League teams.

Oh, and Jan Vertonghen won the PFA Community Player of the Year.

"By no means is it the most important or prestigious award, but it’s just another feather in the cockerel’s already thick, impermeable plumage."

Speaking of Vertonghen, it was his inadvertent blunder that cost Lloris the Golden Glove. But one minuscule mistake in a meaningless match that had already been decided shouldn’t be dwelled upon.

The only thing this Spurs team should be devastated about is not winning the Premier League title.

They fell marginally – and devastatingly – short. Not, however, through a lack of effort. And definitely not because of their performances, which, for the most part, were inspiring, entertaining and pulled directly from the upper echelon.

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Spurs point total in 2016-17, in four other seasons since the Premier League era began, would have been enough to see the Lilywhites lift the Premier League trophy aloft.

And it was Spurs best season in 54 years.

So keep your heads up Trippier and company. You’ve done yourselves – and every Spurs supporter across the globe – extremely proud.