There's a video doing the rounds from Thursday night. It shows Daniel Levy, face stern, eyes on the momentary wreckage of another game, and to his right is one of the Tottenham directors, Donna-Maria Cullen.
Marcus Rashford had just put Manchester United 2-0 up and to most amateur lip-readers it looks rather a lot like she said: ‘This is s***’. For all the things Spurs are getting wrong, she nailed that one.
It has been. And it still is, notwithstanding how that loss became an uplifting draw, because Tottenham are very much the soap opera of spring.