As Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino prepares to return to Tottenham for the first time, he might reflect that in different circumstances he could easily be taking a familiar seat in the home dugout on Monday night.
Pochettino was open to a return to his former club at the start of the summer but Daniel Levy, the Tottenham chairman, ignored clamour from fans to reinstate the popular Argentine, who eventually accepted a call from Spurs’ bitter rivals Chelsea.
