It's six months since Ange Postecoglou told the soccer world he's always won a trophy in his second season managing a club - and there's hardly been a day since during Tottenham's struggles when he hasn't been reminded of it.
Yet if he's ever felt hostage to fortune over that assertion and secretly wished he'd never mentioned it, you'd never have known it by his defiant air on the eve of what shapes as a potential watershed night for both Spurs and their Australian boss.
"No, no extra pressure," insisted Postecoglou, when asked about the comments on the eve of the second leg of the Europa League last-16 tie which, if Spurs lose at home to AZ Alkmaar on Thursday, will mean his second season will be trophy-free.
