Spurs have election every match – Postecoglou says managing harder than politics

Ange Postecoglou believes being a modern-day manager is harder than being Prime Minister ahead of trying to achieve the seemingly impossible task of helping Tottenham win silverware.

Spurs resume their latest quest to add to the trophy cabinet on Thursday night when Manchester United visit in the last eight of the Carabao Cup.

Tottenham have failed to win a prize since 2008 and a restless fanbase turned on chairman Daniel Levy during the 5-0 victory at Southampton on Sunday, with repeated chants calling for the long-serving director to leave.

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It was now former Saints boss Russell Martin, however, who lost his job hours after the St Mary’s thrashing to follow Gary O’Neil – sacked by Wolves – in being dismissed last weekend.

Postecoglou is fully aware defeat by United will turn the spotlight back on him but expressed his exasperation at the shelf life of head coaches in the current era.

“We have lost all sort of modes of respect in our society where guys are in jobs and they are putting up names of who is going to replace them while they are still working,” Postecoglou reflected.

“As a society, we are so quick to just throw people in the trash and move on really quickly with no thought or any care around it. I don’t know if there is a good way or a best way of handling it

“It is why I have left before it has ever happened to me, mate. Jump out before that comes my way. We have crossed that line now and it is open slammer.

“I get people who say, ‘managers have always been sacked’. I just think now it has gone beyond that now where we forget there is a human being involved.

“This job is the hardest job now in any walk of life. You can say politics, but this is harder than