The temperature was a trifle lower than Antonio Conte may have wanted but, in so many ways, this trip to West Yorkshire proved every bit as restorative as a week in the sun at the Tottenham manager’s favourite resort hotel in Sardinia.
All those not so veiled threats about walking out after losing at Burnley last Wednesday were forgotten as, with Harry Kane and Ryan Sessegnon excelling, Spurs repeatedly cantered through Leeds’s defence, reviving their slender, Champions League qualification hopes along the way.