“If Spurs are successful, Ange will go massive. An Aussie flavour at a Premier League club is huge. It’s (first-team coach) Mile Jedinak and to a lesser extent (incoming chief football officer) Scott Munn. “It’s hard to supplant Liverpool and Manchester United but it’s not just the Ange factor. “If they were to win something in the next few years I think they would go from somewhere between the fifth and eighth most supported club in Australia to right near the very top. “I think Spurs and Ange could go stratospheric,” says Vince Rugari, a sports reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, who has covered Postecoglou for more than a decade. The sense from talking to people on the ground is that there is a big growth opportunity for Tottenham in Australia. Spurs’ first friendly: Old and new faces shine – but familiar defensive problems bite.
Kane ‘totally committed’ to Spurs – Postecoglou.Fewer than 25,000 were there to watch West Ham’s first friendly against Perth Glory the night before. By way of comparison, just 40,501 were at the same stadium to watch the Aussie Rules match between West Coast Eagles and Richmond on Sunday. A day on from the packed-out training session, there are more than 46,000 in attendance for the friendly match against West Ham. Later they flock to the hotel where the team is staying to get a glimpse of their favourite players. A couple of kilometres away, Tottenham fans in replica shirts gather at the Spurs mural of Ange Postecoglou, Son Heung-min and Richarlison.
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