sport news Tottenham should sack Antonio Conte NOW after bringing the club into disrepute, ... trends now

In one outlandish, outrageous and staggeringly devoid of self-awareness post-match interview, we seemingly witnessed the attempted assassination of a football club. By its own manager.

What a despicable misrepresentation of his responsibilities that was by Antonio Conte.

Now most sensible observers would assume that was an oral resignation letter, but in reality there are most likely 3.5million reasons why he wouldn’t have the courage of his convictions to do that. He’s waiting for his pay-off.

Don’t wait for lawyers. Sack him now. He’s brought the club into disrepute, a breach of contract. He showed zero sense of his own culpability. 

Excusing himself, his decisions, his selections, his behaviour, whilst nuking everyone else at Tottenham. Don’t give him a penny.

How can Conte re-position this elsewhere and steer his dissatisfaction into a growing roar of malcontent from Spurs fans and their feeble trophy achievements? 

Conte is like a man escaping a burning house with the matches, but looking to blame everyone else for the flames.

Excuse me, Antonio, vecchio figlio mio. Losing the Champions League knockout to an average AC Milan team, defeat against a weakened Sheffield United in the FA Cup – and, most recently, the substitutions made while leading 3-1 at bottom-of-the-table Southampton – are yours. They came on your watch.

In the interests of integrity, weeks before his Pompeii-esque eruption to the media after drawing 3-3 at St Mary’s, I had naively calculated that Conte would honour the obligations of his enormous contract and do his level best to guide Spurs to the Daniel Levy-driven promised land of fourth in the table.

I wrote then about the importance for Spurs and their chairman in keeping Harry Kane beyond his current contract, throwing the kitchen sink at him, supporting Conte further and striving to win a trophy. 

A bad record can become a hit with a remixed version and a jolly parade around Wembley would change the narrative. I think that column should now be filled under W for wishful thinking.

I’m not here to defend Daniel, who can sometimes save a pound to lose a fiver, but there is no way he appointed Conte with the order to win the Champions League and/or the Premier League.

The brief would have been this: be competitive, consolidate in the top four and qualify again for the Champions League, build our team, push forward. 

Antonio, you are the man, with your experience and your success, take us to the next level. You never know. Maybe even try and win an FA Cup. 

Conte has not been sold a pup. He wasn’t sold a Fiat with expectations of a Formula One car. This season he was given £192million to spend on players and asked to deliver progress. That’s more than the money spent by the two previous incumbents, Jose Mourinho (£131m) and Nuno Espirito Santos (£57m).

Yes, there is a historic problem with Spurs, they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Even though they boast a generational footballer in Kane. 

In Daniel’s 22 years at the helm, they have had seven top-four finishes, five FA Cup semi-finals, one League Cup win, four runners-up and three semi-final losses and one Champions League final defeat.

With the exception of the misguided appointment of Santos, they have appointed historic proven winners in recent times in Mourinho and Conte. 

Yet it seems the players, despite falling short, have possibly exerted power to oust someone like Mourinho, or in this situation, reduce Conte to a simmering demented-sounding Tasmanian devil.

In one of the lowlights of his rant at Southampton, he turned on his selfish players, showing this Italian does not have the patience or feeling that can grow success, build a culture, dare I say it actually

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