An inevitable parting of ways

Only a few weeks into the ill-fated reign of Andre Villas-Boas at White Hart Lane, two former Tottenham managers reflected on his muddled methods and one of them commented: “When he eventually flies home after being sacked, as he surely will, he will look down on Stamford Bridge and say ‘I ruined that club’ and look down on White Hart Lane and say ‘I ruined that one too’.”

Actually, the former Spurs boss did not say ‘ruined’ but his words cannot be printed in a national paper.

So obvious, to many seasoned Spurs-watchers, was the mistake Daniel Levy was making in appointing AVB that it was only a matter of time before the inevitable sacking would occur.