No wonder because it was something special for him and his club. The goal was Johnson’s 20th of the season for Club and Country – his best return in a single campaign – and Spurs gave her first cutlery since 2008.

“I’m just so happy,” he said. “This season was not good at all, none of us players are now interested.

“This team has not won trophy for 17 years, it means so much.

“All fans are struck, we will be beaten because we did not win trophy. We had to get the first. I’m so happy. Since I came here, it was ‘Tottenham, a good team, but I can’t do it’, but we did it.”

The 17th place in the Premier League was not what Johnson expected when he joined Spurs from Nottingham Forest for a fee of more than 45 million GBP in the summer of 2023.

While his old club was one of the stories of the season and challenged himself for a spot for Champions League, his current employers and boss Ver Postecoglou were mocked because of their dark domestic campaign.

But Johnson, who also achieved in the semi -final of Spurs’ Europa League against Bodo/Glimt, said that he and his teammates would have posteclou in the course of a successful European campaign that opposed their fights in the Premier League, a debt of gratitude for “trust in us”.

“He did his job,” said Johnson. “He said he wins in the second year and if there is ever a time for a microphone drop, he has now (when he talks to the media).

“I can’t thank the manager enough for how much trust he has in us, and he has a really good way to raise us.”

Johnson added: “Tottenham Hotspur, the 17th in the Premier League, is not good enough. We had an incredible run in the Europa League. The fans were so good, at home and gone and they had the advantage over the United fans. They were all here an hour before the game, they came through the game.”