Antonio Conte is no longer the Tottenham head coach. His furious four-minute rant after Spurs let slip a 3-1 lead to draw 3-3 with bottom club Southampton last weekend was the final straw for chairman Daniel Levy.
Spurs remain in the hunt for a Champions League place this season, but Conte declared the players to be "selfish" after the game at St Mary's, saying all 11 players were playing for themselves, not for the team. He also said it was "Tottenham's story" that things like that happened. "Tottenham’s story is this, 20 years there is the owner and they never won something but why?" he said.
With Spurs going into the international break with that result, and Conte heading home to Italy to spend time with his family, as he often did on such occasions, a decision needed to be made.
