Ange Postecoglou has not had much to smile about in his second season as manager of Tottenham Hotspur but the under-pressure Australian now stands three games away from delivering the club’s first silverware for 17 years.<\/p>\n
The 59-year-old former Celtic manager has been mocked for his claim that he always wins a trophy in his second season with a club, especially with Tottenham on course for their worst Premier League finish since 1994.<\/p>\n
His tactics have been regularly questioned and had Thursday’s Europa League quarter-final away to Eintracht Frankfurt gone badly it might have spelt a hasty end to his tenure. Instead, Tottenham rolled up their sleeves and dug out a 1-0 victory for a 2-1 aggregate win.<\/p>\n
With a two-legged semi-final against Norwegian outsiders Bodo\/Glimt to come, Postecoglou appears to have bought himself some time and he was not shy in stating that fact.<\/p>\n
“I think I said yesterday, I am the same manager today that I was yesterday so if people think us winning tonight makes me a better manager or whoever thinks I wasn’t doing a good job yesterday, should be feeling the same way,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n
“I don’t care, it doesn’t bother me, it doesn’t affect what I do. For me, it’s always about the dressing room. Do the players believe? Do the staff believe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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