It was a horrible game, won by a joke of a goal.
But there is no Spurs fan in the country that now gives up.
The big question, however, is whether the reward of Ange Postecoglou should be to go through the 17-year-old trophy-dried of the club to go again, or to receive his P45.
Sun Sport looks at the arguments both sides …
Ange In – The Hoodoo is broken
The big Aussie put itself under enormous pressure when he pointed out: “I usually win a trophy in my second season”.
He made it more difficult when he doubled to get it: “I always win a trophy in my second season”.
After they have done that and have realized his promise, many will think that it would be completely unfair for moving Postecoglou to be demolished.
That Postecoglou believes that this can be the turning point is also clear, after he spoke about his desire to move the club during the coming seasons.
Postecoglou is of the opinion that the lack of silverware was a huge albatros that hung over the club.
By ending that Jinx, everything can be easier.
In the aftermath of the victory, he said: “I would be disappointed if I couldn't continue on this path, but I understand why it would be difficult for a club like this to buy in the vision of one person.
“But Maat, I am a winner. I have been a serial winner all my career.”
The Europa League trophy is the physical embodiment of his self-confidence and proof that Postcoglou has the courage of its own beliefs. Now he would claim that he deserves the time to underline all of that.
Loyalty counts
When James Maddison and Sergio Reguilon raised the banner with a photo of Postecoglou complete with that quote for the Spurs fans in the midst of the Bilbao celebrations, there was a lot about the bond between the manager and his players.
Maddison is supposed to occasionally have had his own fall-outs with the Aussie this season, while Reguilon was sent twice on loan and hardly kicked a ball for spurs in two campaigns.
But they made a statement on behalf of the dressing room – that whatever their different problems have been, they clearly keep them on a personal level.
Other players have also expressed their positive feelings about Postecoglou.
And although football is about tactics and intelligence, it is also an emotional game – if you like a manager and want to play for him, you are more likely to perform better.
Continuity counts
Now Spurs has won a trophy, it will illuminate so much tension – both on and outside the field.
Change because of change now threatens to blow up everything and to introduce a new level of uncertainty.
A new manager means a new coaching team, and probably also a new set of players – every boss worth his salt wants a level of autonomy.
Although this has been a roller coaster of a season – albeit one with more plunge than Ascents – Postacoglou has succeeded in cinging the head of the intensive view of control and strengthened the other side and to come out stronger.
The Australian has admitted that the domestic season has been “unacceptable”, but success has the tendency to grow success and he will now be encouraged as the manager who can lead a daring new Spurs era.
Ange out – months of misery
One night of glory – albeit the glory deserved by crusted resistance and one -dimensional anti -football – cannot wipe away everything that went earlier.
Postecoglou won 26 points in his first 10 games in the Spurs Helm.
The subsequent 65 only achieved 77 points.
That is a relegation form, according to all standards. By far the worst campaign of the Premier League era club, demonstrably worse than the relegation season of 1976-77, given the resources on which his decision is.
And just not good enough for Tottenham Hotspur.
Yes, the Postecoglou team is plagued by injuries over a large part of the last 18 months.
But a lot of feeling an important contribution to that absence has been the playing style of Postecoglou – if your defenders play permanently on the margins, instead of being able to relax a little during games, they are previously injured.
And while his staff was in a constant state of Flux, Postecoglou was married for far too long with a playing style that had not taken the actual manpower into consideration.
It is all good and good with playing a high line, with inverted full-backs, and playing from the back, if you have Micky van der Ven and Cristian Romero available.
But not if your central defenders are Radu Dragusin and Archie Gray, with Ben Davies left-back, for a stand-in keeper who can't kick.
Fans
Daniel Levy has long been the aunt Sally for the Spurs supporters.
But the relationship between fans and the manager also suffered – perhaps irreparable.
In those early months it was all Robbie Williams and “oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, ange postecoglou”.
They have not been heard too much in recent months.
At the end of last season, Postecoglou lost a lot to the fans, when he simply did not understand how one of them – let alone many – was willing to lose at home in Manchester City to ensure that Arsenal did not win the title.
His arguments were healthy – he is a football manager, whose task is to win games and get the best possible finish for his club.
But football is not just about “football”. It is about so much different – and tribal rivalry runs deeper than blood.
This season, while Spurs lost the game after the game – 21 and counting in the competition – the simmering dissatisfaction was cooked.
Maybe not in songs. But in the bars and the stands, on the podcasts, in the chat rooms for social media.
Does One Night of Joy go beyond that?
One swallow does not make summer
No fan who was in Bilbao, or in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in a pub or at home, will someday forget that feeling of pure, unbridled ecstasy with the last whistle.
All those seasons of frustrations, the near-miss, the pain, disappeared, in one explosion of the referee's whistle.
Yet Tottenham should win things.
They are the ninth rich club in the world. With the best stadium in England. And one of the best grounds of training everywhere,
For all koans that the club is reluctant to dig deep, Spurs have also spent money.
Last season finished fifth after he had lost Harry Kane – if he had not been sold, it would certainly be third or fourth – felt like a decent return.
Even then many fans watched the Europa League as a competition that Tottenham could really win.
But when Juande Ramos won the League Cup in 2008, this was not the beginning of anything. He was gone before the end of the year.
Manchester United stayed with Erik ten Hag in principle last summer because he defeated City to win the FA Cup.
It was an epic error and keeping postecoglou based on an emotional reaction would be that traces do almost the same.