There is an old saying that if someone shows who they are, they believe!
We have all seen the irritable and stubborn reaction of Ange Postecoglou on injuries, losing and criticism this season. In combination with, in my opinion, an inability to offer solutions to the challenge to finish more than one place above the relegation zone.
It cannot be in any way what the Tottenham hierarchy was the route map for this season.
Although a school of thinking suggests that his future depends on the defeat of Manchester United in the Europa League final of next week, I am convinced by an alternative image where even the victory by the club will be considered mere papers over the cracks.
Daniel Levy will of course take comfort and have an element of conflicting gratitude to Postecoglou if he can get the monkey from Tottenham's back and win a trophy for the first time in 17 years. Qualification for the Champions League too, although less appreciation for a stinker of a Premier League season.
But a moment in time is not the best measure when you look at how you can prepare for future challenges.
Is there a point that hesitates Spurs to make a change this summer to be alone in the position of Manchester United to keep Erik ten Hag and you in October? From that example, sticking to Postecoglou could cause a further monsoon of problems.
Once admired by the Tottenham Fanbase, I am routinely informed that he has alienated many of the supporters. There is only one person less popular among the dissidents and that is the chairman who could ultimately reject his services!
Spurs cannot be 17th in the Premier League. Even the financial benefits of their European run and potential access to the Champions League will be considerably compensated by the decrease in merit payments due to their competition.
We cannot forget the impact that Postecoglou made in Tottenham in his first few months, but he was also the beneficiary of the timing.
Anyone who followed the destructive, self-engaged negativity of Antonio Conte of Nuno Espirito Santo's lack of stylistic fit would have lifted the hangover to a certain extent.
I found the way the Australian tried to enclose a new culture and character in his players – even with nine men against Chelsea – and pushed back against the pathetic mentality of Spurs fans who wanted their team to lose to Manchester City, so that Arsenal could not be a champion.
Postecoglou initially spoke and delivered a good match and, because first impressions can be the longest, it may have helped to delay the investigation on him until the results became so bad that there was no escape.
If you started digging under the hood, it was clear that traces were already deteriorating at the end of last season, but because we are in an era in which feelings are promoted more than facts that do not get our Tottenham back in the story of Postecoglou '.
There is no step for him now. Advanced, brave, front-foot football doesn't seem so exciting as you lose every week. Delivering spicy sound bites is not a replacement for setting up a working mechanism for success.
Yes, he has had injuries to contend, but Tottenham should not lose at home in Ipswich. In any case, the results have deteriorated further since more players have been available. Tottenham has won only once in the competition since 22 February – and that was at home in Bottom Club Southampton.
I would imagine that the task of Postecoglou was safe, while Spurs was still in the Europa League, because you cannot take the importance in Newcastle style on the club to win silverware after waiting for so long.
It is not my job to ask a manager's head, but I can see that as soon as the final is played and the campaign is over, Levy will consider a change, regardless of the result.
In terms of optics, the fantastic winning of a big cup is fantastic. But it will not be significant in the longer term if the bad habits of Tottenham appear again in August.
The obvious reservation is, if not postecoglou, who then?
Andoni Iraola in Bournemouth looks like a good manager and although I hate to hear myself say, Oliver Glasner in Crystal Palace would also be a candidate who is worth the pursuit.
Glasner has a proven track record at Eintracht Frankfurt and has worked in Crystal Palace this season. His history suggests that he has an ego and will push people hard, players and ownership.
What made an impression on me during the struggle of Palace in the early season, without Jean-Philippe Mateta and Ebereechi Eze and having Center back Joachim Andersen, Glasner did not respond as a rabbit caught in the headlights.
He portrayed an inner belief that his methods would turn things around, without one of the key under pressure that has become a characteristic of Postecoglou.
The irony is that if Palace wins the FA Cup on Saturday, the shares of Glasner will only rise higher, just like his ambition and expectation of what the club should do to be competitive.
I do not want to be accused by colleague palace fans of promoting our manager for other jobs on the eve of a large game, where they can lift the first major trophy in their history. But in the interest of objectivity (note, Martin Keown) would fail to not mention him as a potential successor to Postecoglou.
I would like to have worked with Glasner. As the owner, it is rare that a manager comes in and does exactly what they said they would do. That is to make the team better!
A lot is made of what makes a good owner or not, and how much they spend or interfere. This week we saw Evangelos Maranakis in Nottingham Forest March on the field to express his feelings. My attitude was to hire and continue with supposed experts in their field. I didn't want to choose the team or get involved in tactics – I paid managers for that.
I will not be in Wembley this weekend, but it is known that Palace was my boys' club. I grew up with 200 meters from Selhurst Park and saw my house players such as Vince Hilaire and Kenny Sansom Training in a compound behind a parking lot.
On Sunday I would bunk the ground with my brother and friends to have a kickabout on the grass, to climb the spotlight or to run the Arthur on position. I was an avid football fan at that age. I devoured every magazine and collected players cards and stickers.
A FA Cup -similar play against Liverpool in 1977 was particularly memorable because we were shown stars like Kevin Keegan, Ray Clemence and Emlyn Hughes, which I had read before or read on TV in our Third Division Stadium.
My own football career came at youth level with Chelsea and Palace. I played in a team with another South Londoner, Michael Thomas. In later years I point out the striking fact, at least in my mind, that I scored the second goal of the new Wembley in a pro-AM charity game.
Instead of a professional career, I went into business and made a few pounds. When I bought Palace, it was because it was the club that supported my father, his father for him and I. It was also because I was enthusiastic and ambitious and saw an opportunity in the growth of football.
For generations of Eagles fans, winning a first trophy in Wembley will be the Ultimate Dream on Saturday.
From a more pragmatic point of view, I wonder if Levy also keeps an eye on the attention of the Europa League final.