The end when it came was the complete antithesis of those angry final words shouted by Antonio Conte just eight days before.
It was the briefest of Tottenham Hotspur statements, put out at 10.20pm on a Sunday night to mark the end of a tempestuous and always doomed relationship. It was akin to the simple changing of a Facebook status from 'married' to 'single' via 'it's complicated', published the moment the ink was dry on the paperwork and legal agreements.
Daniel Levy's latest fascination with a manager who boasted a glittering CV honed at clubs entirely unlike Spurs had once again ended in divorce.
