Joe Lewis and the Tottenham drama starring Daniel Levy, Ange Postecoglou and Harry Kane
The drama that is Tottenham Hotspur rarely ends an episode without a late twist that leaves the shocked audience trying to figure out what could possibly happen next.
The latest series — we'll call it 2023 — is only just over halfway through its run but has already showcased drama aplenty.
This year's episodes have brought four head coaches, fan protests, Italian rage, a banned managing director of football, a spurned Argentine, a shirt-bearing German, a straight-talking Australian without the centre-backs he asked for, a chief football officer blocked from starting his job, a captain asking to leave and the club's biggest star faced with an uncertain future amid a backdrop of Bavarian noise.
All good dramas eventually take the show on the road for episodes abroad and so Tottenham headed off to Australia and Asia for a change of location. Only the club's latest pre-season tour has brought with it just as many twists and turns as were found at home.
There has been the bizarre Harry Kane Bayern shirt stunt, a rained-off match in monsoon-season Thailand — the first time Spurs have ever had a pre-season game cancelled ahead of kick-off in their history — and now they are set to take on a drafted-in local Singaporean side rather than, of all people, Jose Mourinho's Roma after the Italian club pulled out over financial issues with a promoter from an earlier part of their own planned Asian tour.
Ange Postecoglou has already learned that to manage at Tottenham you need to have at least some experience as a firefighter for all of the blazes that suddenly ignite without warning within the club. Even in his final training session in Singapore on Tuesday night, one of his young back-up goalkeepers, Alfie Whiteman, had to be taken off on
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