Does Tottenham’s PFA Team of the Year Haul Show They Should Be Champions?

Tottenham Hotspur sit five points behind Leicester City with just four games to play in the most unpredictable Premier League season in years. 

Spurs began this campaign with aspirations of breaking into the top four and returning to the UEFA Champions League after a five-year absence.

From this point, there will be some sense of disappointment at finishing with anything less than the league title. 

The PFA Premier League Team of the Year was named on Thursday, and no team has more players included than Tottenham. 

Four of the stars of Spurs’ season were selected. 

Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Toby Alderweireld and Danny Rose were recognised for their brilliant individual campaigns as part of Mauricio Pochettino’s title-chasing side. 

The Professional Footballers’ Association Team of the Year was inaugurated in the 1973-74 season, and Tottenham have never had more than three players selected—except in 1977-78, when five Spurs players were named when they were playing their way out of the Second Division. 

Tottenham have had more players selected this season than they did in the entire decade of the 2000s. In that forgettable period, Stephen Carr was twice named and Dimitar Berbatov once.  

This is yet another expression of the fact this has been Spurs’ best domestic season since the double year of 1960-61. 

They’ve scored the most goals (64) and conceded the fewest (25) of any club in the division. …

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