BPL citizen journalist Remy Davies is a journalism student at Griffith University.

If, at the beginning of the 2009/10 English Premier League, you were asked to choose which club's fans would be the happiest at the end of the season, which would you have chosen?

Obviously fans of any of the top four title contenders, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal would only be content if they won the league. Fans of nouveau riche upstart Manchester City would be delirious if they cracked into the top four and would happily settle for fifth.

Then there were the fans of the clubs fighting for a Europa League spot - Aston Villa, Everton, Fulham, and the perennial underachievers Tottenham Hotspur.

But with the season now done and dusted, it is the fans of Tottenham - the running joke of the EPL - who are perhaps the happiest (title winners Chelsea aside) after their club broke the stranglehold that Chelsea, Man U, Arsenal and Liverpool have had on the top four. Not since Everton five years ago has any other club breached 'fortress top four'.

Equally, fans of Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City,and especially Liverpool will be disappointed with their club's respective league results when put into perspective of their expectations. Arguably Birmingham City fans aren't too far behind Spurs fans in terms of happiness with their club's successful push from Championship League runners-up into the top 10 of the EPL.

But back to the Spurs and their giddy supporters. It wasn't long ago that football pundit Alan Hansen now notoriously claimed on the BBC's Match Of The Day' program that Tottenham Hotspur that "in the end, they'll always let you down". Undoubtedly this struck true in many Spurs fans heads.

The unfailingly pessimistic faithful only have to look back at Tottenham's last push for fourth four years ago when just before their final match of the season — a fourth place deciding match no less — their squad was struck down by food poisoning after eating dodgy lasagne. They lost the match and fourth place subsequently went to their arch-rivals Arsenal.

This season however, Spurs have acted — if it is possible — not like Spurs. It was a season that was marked by an unusual winning consistency, with only minor hiccups. An example of Spurs' resolve was when they lost to Sunderland, and with that their grip on fourth, and then to relegated side Portsmouth in a FA Cup semi-final in the same week, only to then Spurs defeat Arsenal and Chelsea the next week.

Their victory over Arsenal was the sweetest, being the first time they have defeated the Gunners in the league since 1999, with the win effectively ending Arsenal's title hopes.

These wins in the London derbies, plus the season opening win over Liverpool, the double over fourth-place rival Manchester City, and the 9-1 demolition of Wigan will make for a memorable year for Spurs fans—this time for all the good reasons.