Spurs manager enjoyed a stirring start to reign last season but is now enduring difficult questions from grumbling fans
nge Postecoglou agrees because he knew just as well as anyone how it would have been painted. “Firstly, you can say that if we lost the other night, we would have been in crisis,” the Tottenham manager says. He is discussing theon Wednesday, which came three days after the home loss to Arsenal, a result that left Spurs with four points from the opening four Premier League games.
Some of the fans are not only booing at matches but grumbling about where they are going under Postecoglou. The tone of it all was reflected in many of the questions he faced in his media conference to preview Saturday’s visit of Brentford. There is a lot of noise around Spurs, plenty of it taking in the merits of Angeball, the entertainment-value-versus-results debate. And more about individual players.
For Postecoglou, there were two obvious questions. Does he do yoga? “No mate, jeez, I don’t have the patience for it … nothing wrong with yoga by the way.” And, more seriously, how does he cope with the intensity and craziness of the professional realm that he inhabits? “I’ve always said fans are more than free to feel what they feel,” he says. “We’ve just got to stay clear-eyed on what we’re trying to achieve and the kind of football team we want to be. If that’s swimming against the tide sometimes, that’s all right – it makes you stronger.”
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