Colin Sheridan: Rabid Spurs inconsistency makes it hard to turn that corner

History suggest not all of Spurs' ills are down to Ange Postecoglou.

BEATEN DOCKET: It seems a shame for Ange Postecoglou that Spurs were the side who chose him first. Pic: John Walton/PA Wire.

I don’t habitually watch Tottenham Hotspur - they are - after all - only Spurs - but given their results of late (that is, everything since Poch), catching the after-match party is fun. 

José Mourinho, whose time at the club was typically chaotic, was guaranteed copy, whether it was in press conferences or in Amazon’s unintentionally hilarious documentary All or Nothing. “For 90 minutes you cannot be nice,” he told his players then, the inference being that they were in fact too nice, “For 90 minutes you have to be a bunch of c***s, but intelligent c***s, not stupid c***s. B******s in the sense that you are there to win matches man.”