Ange Postecoglou and a Tottenham summer tour that's doing its best to thwart his best-laid plans

It never rains but it pours for Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham Hotspur right now.

Just when the new Spurs head coach thought he might be getting a handle on some of the things within the huge job that lies ahead of him at the north London club so a German reporter taunts him in a press conference and then the heavens opened to strike out one of his warm-up matches.

It would have been the first time Tottenham had played a game in Thailand but ultimately 40 minutes after the scheduled kick-off time in Bangkok, the match officials at The Rajamangala Stadium had seen enough and recommended Spurs' encounter with Leicester should not go ahead after a huge downpour more than an hour before.

The rain had eased but several problematic patches remained where the ball would not bounced on the sodden turf and the risk of injury became clear.

The weather has dominated Tottenham's short trip to Thailand. They flew into the country through a fearsome storm, they trained the night before the game in a deluge and then the wet conditions decided the match Postecoglou had been preparing for was to be no more.

The rainy — or monsoon — season in Thailand lasts from July to October, the rain in the early months heavy but intermittent and only lasting a few hours while in later months of the season the downpours are consistent and long.

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The match cancellation was hugely disappointing for those passionate Spurs fans in Thailand who had waited years for the team to come.

«To everyone involved and particularly to our supporters, the ones here in Thailand and obviously the ones who have travelled, really disappointed with not being able to play the game tonight,»