For a team whose new manager has been dismissed as tactically reckless and whose season has been written off as transitional in many quarters, Spurs are remarkably in with a shout of the Champions League football that eluded them last season.
We face them on Wednesday, and are they as good as the "hype"?
Sunday's win over Everton was tense, uncomfortable and rather lucky.
What is worse to play against - a good team; or a lucky one?
The rode out a first-half in which Roberto Martinez's side played them off their own pitch, Sherwood's boys got lucky.
The recent home game with Crystal Palace provided a few scrapes too. Yet by hook or by crook, they came out on top.
Sherwood is not everybody's cup of tea, perhaps having too much assurance for one so inexperienced in the eyes of some.
Yet. whatever Spurs' faults, the new man has given them some belief.
There will never be a better time to visit Newcastle United than on Wednesday, with morale low at the ailing Magpies.
Alan Pardew is under pressure (mosty of it of his own making), but now he has to face a period without star players because of injury ... or errrr ... the odd sale to a certain French club (not of his own making).
The question is - have Newcastle the fight to knock the arrogance out of the young pretender?