It was a measure of Ange Postecoglou’s frustration, of his despair, that he said on more than one occasion that the journalists who cover Tottenham could join in with training and not look out of place. Just when the fans thought they had hit rock bottom, eh?
The manager’s point was that his injury-ravaged squad was not really training at all and the situation was very much a live one up to the FA Cup defeat at Aston Villa on 9 February. They were simply shadow boxing in between the matches, which came thick and fast – there had been only one midweek without a game since the November international break. Postecoglou’s absentees were sometimes in double digits and he worried about pushing those still standing too hard.
