A meaningless Europa League group game on a freezing cold Thursday night has never been so popular.
From the moment the first chant was sung - a customary “What do you think of Tottenham?” fifteen minutes before kick-off, two- hundred-and-seventy-two days of wait came to an end.
The air was chilling, the result was pleasing but neither of those emotions topped coming back home.
Thursday night’s game shows that going to football matches is much more than the 90 minutes. It’s about the community you go with, the familiar faces you see in the pub and the stands, the banter with the away fans.