Away from the mutinous chants pouring down from the south stand, the gathering peril around Ange Postecoglou and Daniel Levy’s thousand-yard stare at full-time, it was worth keeping Leicester’s jubilation in mind. Ruud van Nistelrooy’s strugglers have endured a bleak winter and, when they found themselves trailing Tottenham at half-time, they resembled a team waiting for the sweet release of relegation.
At that stage Leicester were on their way to their eighth consecutive defeat in the Premier League, equalling a club record set in the 2000-01 season. Yet if history was a guide then playing Spurs was a positive. After all Leicester stopped the rot 24 years ago with a 4-2 win over the north Londoners.
