I'll always believe that the professionals in the game are right 90 per cent of the time and us punters about 10 per cent of it, but sometimes you have to wonder. I don't think you needed to be particularly clever to realise that Mourinho would always be a bad fit for Spurs given his view of how the game should be played and that of most Spurs fans.

Therefore, replacing him with a manager whose previous team played a counter attacking game while not being particularly bothered by their opponents having more of the ball hardly seems a match made in heaven. Apparently, there has been an undertaking that Nuno's team will play in the "traditional" Spurs manner, but they would say that now wouldn't they.