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Tottenham should draw inspiration from Ajax success

By Barrett Rouen

DORTMUND, GERMANY - MARCH 05: Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur scores his sides first goal during the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Second Leg match between Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur at Westfalen Stadium on March 05, 2019 in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
DORTMUND, GERMANY - MARCH 05: Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur scores his sides first goal during the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 Second Leg match between Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur at Westfalen Stadium on March 05, 2019 in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) /
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The football world watched with equal measures of delight and disdain as Ajax dismantled current holder Real Madrid at the Bernabeau.  Tottenham already having several former Ajax players in their team should use this for inspiration.

Anything is possible in football.  Ajax showed that with their utterly thorough and destruction of Real Madrid that if a team is playing together well enough, in good form and has enough talent that any result is possible.  It is healthy for football when this sort of thing happens.  When teams are allowed to be as cynical and lazy as Real Madrid were becoming in their recruitment, practices and behavior it’s important that the honor and joy of football are defended.

Tottenham who have in many recent seasons counted themselves out of larger competitions or stepped back from major challenges should learn something from this.  It’s important for them to see that this sort of thing is possible and that they should never resign matches or think they are lost before they have even been played.

Too often Tottenham fail because they are worshipping at the alter of the realistic and spend too little time thinking about the possible.  With a team as good as the one that they have why would they not think that they could win it all?  Why is the manager saying they are still so far away from a trophy when they’re already in the quarter finals of the champions league? They’re three matches away from winning the biggest trophy in European football.

This is not the time to be realistic.  This is the time to be inspired and to chase after the dreams that football is all about.  Now Tottenham have seen exactly what is possible why would they not think that they can do more?  If Ajax and their team of youth products can beat Real Madrid away from home in the Bernabeau there’s not one reason why Tottenham can’t do a little better!

Tottenham must throw caution to the wind and remember what the point is of football in the first place.  The point is to be entertaining, to be fun and to win.  To chase the sort of trophies and achievements that go down in history and that people actually remember over time.

Spurs should be grateful to Ajax for proving that it is possible.  Tottenham should go out and prove it too.