BACK FROM THE DJED

Spence just in time to save game for Spurs and then Johnson adds winner

- MIKE WALTERS

ANGE POSTECOGLOU can remove his highwayman's mask and release the stagecoach.

In football's twisting kaleidoscope there are hardluck stories, pickpockets and burglaries but this was downright robbery.

Goals inside the last three minutes from substitutes Djed Spence and Brennan Johnson turned the mood from militant to joyous among the travelling disciples from north London.

But in Big Ange's Aussie lingo: You got away with one there, mate.

Feckless, complacent and second-best all over the park, Spurs were booed off at the break, away fans booed Postecoglou's decision to hook their best player, Lucas Bergvall, and they were lucky too survive the whitest of white-knuckle rides at a disbelieving CBS Arena.

For 87 minutes, manager Postecoglou's reminder that he always comes up trumps in his second season looked a forlorn boast.

Tottenham were awful.