Football Daily | Ange Postecoglou, Spurs and senses of entitlement

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The news that Ange Postecoglou has agreed a flamin’ contract with Tottenham to become their new manager will be considered extremely grim by those Spurs fans who consider the Australian to be beneath the job of managing their great club. Such is their state of delusion that these entitled so-and-sos want somebody with iron-clad credentials in charge of their club, a serial winner in the mould of … er, José Mourinho or Antonio Conte. What they emphatically don’t want is some comparatively chilled out larrikin, who may not be as well known but has led four different teams to victory in six different title races, three domestic cups and an international championship since Spurs won their most recent trophy, whatever it was the Milk Cup was called back in 2008.

I haven’t taken the trouble to write to the Football Daily before, mainly because I hadn’t quite grasped the fact that it is really just a former tea-timely iteration in a posh frock, but recent events make it hard to resist the temptation to rant. I am a Wigan Athletic season-ticket holder and, as such, am in a perpetual state of tension – just check out our 10-year record of relegation, promotion, near-misses, administration and points deductions since that great FA Cup final to see why (congrats to City, btw). My recent tension levels are at an all-time high, though. The Football League insists on repeatedly docking the club points. This does not stop the club defaulting on wages because, guess what, they haven’t got enough money to pay them. We will now start next season on -8 points (if we start next season at all) and be favourites for relegation to League Two. The concept of a sanction that penalises the wrong people and cannot stop the club defaulting again is plainly ridiculous. On the other hand, the Football League has twice passed owners of Wigan as being fit and proper when … well. What penalty is it giving itself? Just saying” – Alan Willis.

If only José Mourinho could land the job at Inter Miami. Now there’s a fly-on-the-wall documentary I’d like to see. Like a weird counterweight to Ted Lasso in which a club is revolutionised by relentless negativity” – Stephen Butler.

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