Mauricio Pochettino was sacked by Tottenham in November 2019 but the curtain really came down on his tenure as manager some five months earlier, with Spurs’ defeat to Liverpool in the Champions League Final.
Pochettino - who will take charge of his first game in English football in four-and-a-half years when his new club Chelsea host Liverpool on Sunday - was emotionally drained after losing with Spurs in Madrid, worn down by more than half a decade of working miracles in north London.