Matt Doherty believes Tottenham's players are ready to run through a wall for Antonio Conte and said the Italian spoke to him before he departed for Republic of Ireland duty.
The 30-year-old Irishman had worked hard behind the scenes last season to become Conte's first choice right wing-back at Spurs only for a serious knee injury - rupturing his medial collateral ligament against Aston Villa - to end his campaign early. Doherty admitted during pre-season that he was still feeling his way back from the injury with some pain in his knee and his game time has been limited to just eight minutes since, with late substitute appearances in one Premier League game and one Champions League match.
Conte recently said that he could see Doherty, who he refers to as "Matthew", is improving rapidly on the Hotspur Way training pitches, was looking more like his old self and would come into contention more after the international break. While away with Ireland, Doherty admitted that Tottenham have someone special in charge in the Italian, who has won titles and cups in England and Italy.
