Spurs fans are dreaming of silverware before their FA Cup clash with Burnley but their manager has loftier ambitions
It is FA Cup third round time, the start of another shot at silverware and for the Tottenham manager, it can mean only one thing – questions about the club’s trophy drought and his thirst to put it right. And put it right Ange Postecoglou would love to do. Yet as he prepared for Friday night’s home tie against Burnley, his idea was for a more fundamental step change, a deeper kind of victory.
The elephant in the press conference room was the gap to Spurs’ previous trophy – the 2008 League Cup; how it has been the only silverware of Daniel Levy’s 22-year chairmanship. At one point, Postecoglou was asked whether he ever pictured himself lifting trophies.
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