Why Postecoglou laughed twice after Tottenham defeat, Son fury and a Hollywood star watching on

This felt like classic Tottenham Hotspur and everything that Ange Postecoglou is trying to get the club away from.

Pick up a big result with a 4-0 win at Villa Park, full of positives and a great mentality, only to head across London six days later and put in the most disappointing performance of the season.

For the Tottenham supporters this was the opposite of Al Pacino's memorable speech in The Godfather Part III. It was more 'Just when they pull me back in, they throw me back out'.

Everything that was good about the display in Birmingham was missing at Craven Cottage. There was no intensity, no clinical edge and very little in the way of cohesion or discipline to a team that had previously lost only two of their away trips in the Premier League.

Ardent Fulham fan and Hollywood star Hugh Grant was at the game, fresh from his exploits as an Oompa Loompa in his most recent big screen role, and he got to witness his team win comfortably against a Spurs side that was more wonky than Wonka.

Postecoglou said Spurs were «careless on the ball» and «too keen to get forward» without the required conviction. It was a performance that bore all the hallmarks of a young inconsistent team, one that will have the odd bad day at the office but that thought won't take the sting away from the timing of this timid and tired trip down the river.

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Postecoglou was not having it when football.london asked why his players were unable to harness the momentum from the resounding victory against Villa.

«I don't buy into that sort of stuff. It's a different game, it's a