There was something pleasingly old-fashioned about Albion’s stirring comeback against Tottenham.

Amid all this talk and all these tweets about tactics, analysis, low blocks and high lines, diagrams and stats, they got stuck in.

Don’t get me wrong. Albion also won because of the detailed gameplan and lots of careful work and planning.

There was a lot of football science and planning about their performance.

But the more you heard afterwards, the more it felt like it was hugely down to desire, determination, stung pride, a bit of channelled anger, giving the crowd something and feeding off the response.

Doing the right things but doing them more quickly and with more conviction.

Old-fashioned attributes if you like. Or, rather, attributes which never go out of fashion.

That is something you notice about professional sports people, including Premier League footballers.

They are not like us. They go into games thinking about what will go right, not what could go wrong.

They are intensely competitive. Almost awkwardly, uncomfortably so.

But that is what you need at any level of sport above recreational and Albion found that controlled desperation to then turn the game.

So what happened at half-time? The suddenly ubiquitous Graham Potter pointed out on Match Of The Day the difference Pervis Estupinan made in the second half, including for Kaoru Mitoma.

But a picture also emerged of home truths being delivered in that intense home dressing room while Guy Butters and Paul Reid were having a laugh and a joke for the fans outside.

Danny Welbeck pointed out the contributions did not just come from those who were playing.

He said James Milner, Jason Steele and Jan Paul van Hecke all said their bit.

Welbeck said: “We have got some great leaders in there. Lads who weren’t even on the pitch - Milly, Steely, JP, they kind of told us what was going on.

“And it’s the bare minimum in the Premier League.

“You have to fight, you have to win your duels.

“We came out and we knew the second half wasn’t about tactics, it was about fighting, and that’s what we did.”

Huerzeler had hinted at a few different voices being heard at the break.

When I asked him whether others had stood up to speak, he replied: “I think it is very important to keep things internal.

“But we have great characters in the team.

“In the end it’s my responsibility to help the team to stay positive.

“To find the right words, to find the right solutions.

“But, to be honest it was the players’ game in the second half so they deserved it.

“They worked hard. They were more ruthless, they were more intense in the second half and they worked hard for the goals.

“Also how they defended in the second half was much better than the first half.”

But, again, let’s not get this wrong.

The head coach takes credit for this result, at the end of a week in which, in a balanced way I would suggest, we had questioned how Albion were playing.

(And questioning is not necessarily criticising - it can also be wanting to understand the full picture).

Huerzeler went with four genuine attacking players this time compared to what was more of a 4-3-3 or 4-1-2-3 at Chelsea. That was good to see and was rewarded.

The half-time substitution worked, the early goal came.

As Huerzeler pointed out, Albion gave the crowd something to get behind and the response was good – even though they were playing towards the South Stand rather than the North.

Six of their seven home Prem goals have come before the South Stand.

And then there are the things you can’t explain.

Like Welbeck missing a great chance and Bart Verbruggen letting a ball under his body in the first half.

But Albion finishing chances in the second 45 and Verbruggen making a sharp low save.

Maybe it results from confidence or momentum. 

But Albion have blasted their way out of heir first sticky spell of Huerzeler's tenure and players, fans and coach will be all the better for it.