History is clear for Ange, but Cup's not 'holy grail'

Spurs boss insists silverware won't be a cure-all in his rebuild

- Dan Kilpatrick

ANGE POSTECOGLOU does not have to look far for evidence of what the FA Cup means to Tottenham.

When Postecoglou and his players are preparing for tonight’s third-round tie at home to Burnley, they will be in the company of legends: Gazza, Lineker and Mabbutt in 1991; Ricky Villa a decade earlier; Greaves and Blanchflower in the 1962 Final against the Clarets.

“The people who have had success at this club are rightly honoured,” Postecoglou said ahead of tonight’s game. “If you walk around the home dressing room, those are the only pictures we have got up there; teams and individuals that have won things, because we know how important they are to this club. We don’t hide those things away, you absolutely put them up as an example of what you want to be.”

Postecoglou, who grew up watching FA Cup Finals in the dead of night in Australia, is likely to evoke the past in his pre-match address to the players, but the 58-year-old will be as conscious as anyone that Spurs could do with some more recent inspiration pieces for the dressing-room walls.