Leaked message, Postecoglou anger: Behind the scenes of that Kane shirt stunt
football.london was in Bangkok as a strange press conference moment unfolded ahead of Tottenham Hotspur's friendly against Leicester City
You often get unexpected questions thrown by reporters into Tottenham's foreign press conferences but Saturday's one out in Thailand took those odd moments to a new level.
Over the years we've had Mauricio Pochettino asked which Spurs player he thought had the best hair, once he was asked whether he had lost weight ahead of Champions League match, which prompted him to stand up and pose like a catalogue model from the 1950s.
Then there was the weird moment when a random press conference intruder in Leipzig kept telling Jose Mourinho 'everything is going to be ok' at Tottenham as he walked out of the room after a Champions League defeat.
The mystery man couldn't have been more wrong. It proved to be the last in-person press conference for more than a year as the Covid pandemic then took a firm grip of the whole world. Mourinho was also sacked just over 12 months later. So if that guy ever tells you you're going to be ok, run in the other direction as fast as possible.
Sometimes managers become the centrepiece themselves as Antonio Conte proved on that fateful evening in Southampton in March with an explosive press conference. Never before have the words 'excuses' and 'players' been spat out with such frustration and anger as well as producing some unexpectedly high-pitched syllables as the stunned media watched on.
So what lay in wait for Ange Postecoglou, the new head coach of Tottenham Hotspur? The tour of his homeland Australia had been uneventful, albeit with the kind of Harry Kane future questions he would have been expecting. He was not however expecting what was lurking in Bangkok
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