Great stadium, fans onside and Son up top...What more does Conte want?

Antonio Conte was in another of his dark outfits and spent much of the 90 minutes with a face like thunder, fulminating, pointing and generally living up to that image as the Godfather on the T-shirts they sell on White Hart Lane.

It still does not feel anything like love between him and Tottenham, with the course of his press conference last Friday much like any other, Conte being asked in myriad ways about whether he wants to be here beyond a contract which runs to the end of next season. And implacably refusing to do so, because he does not feel there is enough here to satisfy his ambition.

It is hard to imagine a conversation with Daniel Levy resolving things this summer, given that the budget didn’t even satisfy him at Chelsea. Yet there were moments over the course of this afternoon when you wondered what more Conte could possibly want.

Around the hour mark, just before the second goal went in, the vast, steep bank of the beautiful South Stand launched into full song, filling this vast stadium with its sound. Then Son Heung-min took the pass which Dejan Kulusevski had laid into him, threaded it through a forest of players, to score and the roof was sent off the place.

Son’s second goal was even finer, sending Conte running back and hurling himself into his coaching team. The lingering embrace in which he held Son, when he departed three minutes later, signalled he knows what a gift he has in this player. He joked with him as they embraced, beneath the din of his send-off, about which foot was his favourite, since he scored with both.

If further reminders were needed that managing Tottenham ought to be a source of pleasure and honour then Kulusevski, whom he had lobbied Levy to sign in January, provided it.

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