Pressed into a corner by fan unrest, Spurs’ chairman has gone back to the big-name manager he first approached in June
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Confront previous inconvenience and own the narrative. It is a staple PR play. And how
Tottenham pushed it on Tuesday as they trumpeted the arrival of Antonio Conte as their new head coach.
The inconvenience lay in how Conte had turned them down on 4 June. At that point Spurs were 46 days into the search for a permanent successor to José Mourinho and, as we know, it would take 72 before they plumped for Nuno Espírito Santo – who had been out of work for the previous 37.