It was always going to end spectacularly, one way or another. The end, it seems, is almost here – and if this really is Ange Postecoglou’s last act at Tottenham, at least he’s stuck to his script.

It speaks to the dark, oppressive cloud of negativity that has settled over Spurs this season that most people seem to have totally discounted any possibility that they could beat Eintracht Frankfurt on Friday morning (AEST), reach the Europa League semi-finals, and maybe even go on to win it to end the club’s 16-year trophy drought.

For some, even that would not be enough.

Indeed, you don’t have to doom scroll for too long on any given social media app to find Tottenham fans who want the team to lose so Postecoglou gets sacked. We have come full circle: it has been barely a year since many of those same fans wanted Spurs to lose to Manchester City to prevent Arsenal from winning the Premier League title, a concept that an enraged Postecoglou couldn’t get his head around, creating a schism between himself and the club’s cynical supporter base. That schism is now a chasm, and it can’t be bridged. Now they’d deny themselves a trophy to be rid of him sooner.

Read the rest of my analysis piece here.