It takes a while to shake off the previous season in football, good or bad. Mauricio Pochettino and his Tottenham Hotspur side kicked off their 2016-17 Premier League campaign against Everton on Saturday still contending with both.
The good was in being able to keep together a talented, predominantly young team that finished third last season, the only differences at Goodison Park being the appearances of new signings Victor Wanyama (replacing the still suspended Moussa Dembele) and Vincent Janssen.
The bad was the shadow cast by the disappointing aftermath of their title challenge, something going behind to Ross Barkley's free-kick in a poor first-half display threatened to awake unwanted memories of.