Tommy Martin: If it's not about winning, what's Big Ange all about? 

The Spurs boss has arrived in the Premier League to speak truth to power.

LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU: Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou, with a Tottenham Hotspur fan banner saying 'We're loving Big Ange instead' in the background. Picture: John Walton/PA Wire.

As the great philosopher Jonathan Sexton once said, “We lost, but we won.” The Sextonian Paradox was all over Monday night’s madcap fare at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where the home team went down 4-1 to bitter rivals Chelsea but were applauded off the field by their defiant supporters.

The Spurs fans had taken solace from the approach adopted by their team in response to having two players sent off. Rather than cowering in the traditional hedgehog formation, Ange Postecoglou had his team defend on the halfway line, giving them the precarious look of those 1930s New York construction workers eating their lunch on a steel beam atop a skyscraper.