As party ends, question over Postecoglou looms for Levy

No one left Tottenham's celebrations when the hotel lights went on at 3am but the lights could still go out on manager's tenure after a season of glory and misery

- David Hytner

The Tottenham afterparty was in full swing at the Hotel Carlton in Bilbao; players, management and family members just surrendering to the moment.

Many of the players were still in their full match kits, medals draped around their necks and the centrepiece was the Europa League trophy, 15kg of the purest bliss.

It is heavier than you think, according to Son Heung-min. "Very heavy, very heavy," he said. The Spurs captain had accidentally head-butted it as he hoisted it high into the sky after the 1-0 win over Manchester United, a teammate having pushed into him as he performed the move he had dreamed about ever since signing from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015.

The angry red cut on Son's forehead was a part of the tapestry.

It was about 3am and, suddenly, the lights in the Carlton's function space were switched on. How do you think that went down?

According to one of the revellers, it was the lamest attempt in the history of lame attempts to end a party, to usher people off to their beds. Nobody was leaving. And so they did not, the celebrations pushing on from the small hours into the slightly larger ones.

It was the night that nobody connected to the club wanted to end. When you have waited 17 years for a trophy, 41 years for one in Europe, this is going to happen.

There was food laid on. Probably. Maybe... The drinks flowed. One of the musicians who plays at Spurs' stadium did a turn. There was a DJ. And for Ange Postecoglou, who was there with his family, posing happily for pictures, it was an impossibly sweet time.