United fans speak of the Carling Cup win in 2006 that supposedly set up the next few years, but for what other team has that happened?
Teams that win those cups are usually ones that are equipped to do so already, the transformative effect it had on our group is unique in that they were the first major trophies that Rooney, Saha, Fletcher, Evra, Park and Vidic had won as a part of the new team, without Roy Keane.
I have no doubt that SAF would have seized the opportunity presented to him and talked up the win to them as if it were a European cup final.
It was, quite clearly, the genesis of the new side and it kicked on thereafter. It stayed in the hunt for the title longer than it had any right too and then came out the traps flying in the 06/07 season.
If Spurs could do something similar it COULD galvanise them in the same way. However, given his comments about trophies today, I doubt Pochetino would have the same ability to get his players believing in themselves in the same way. Few could but something about him doesn't scream that he is a winner.
Talented coach and he can get his teams playing some great stuff, just doesn't seem to have "it" whatever that thing that SAF had, that Moyes never did and that Mourinho and LVG lost.