
Apart from four hours a night, when he allows himself to drift off into a fever dream of Emerson Royal endlessly ballooning crosses over the box, Antonio Conte says he is giving everything to turning Tottenham into a team worthy of his image.
Standing in the rain at Turf Moor, after watching his Spurs side slump to a fourth defeat in five Premier League matches, Conte was hit by the realisation that those obsessive 20-hour days still might not be enough, as he called into question whether he, a five-time league-winning manager, is up to the job.