ANGE'S FUN & GAINS

NOTHING has ever been straightforward with Ange Postecoglou's Ministry of Fun.

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But at drinking-up time in the last chance saloon, two-goal Wilson Odobert became the toast of Tottenham's European bounty hunters.

Postecoglou's claim he always wins a trophy in his second season at each club was down to the last drops of credibility until Odobert came to the rescue.

In the space of a week, Spurs went from looking more rattled than a tambourine to calling the tune like a jukebox.

But they turned plain sailing into a four-act drama, swapping a vapid first-leg defeat in Holland eight days ago for a nerve-shredding salvage operation.

If the Thursday Night League is by no means the apex of big clubs' ambitions, it offered Postecoglou a road to salvation.