Tottenham are in for the ride of their lives under Ange Postecoglou

Tottenham fans may not realise it now, but they will. Everyone does eventually. In Ange Postecoglou they have someone truly special.

The 2019 Uefa Champions League finalists confirmed Tuesday one of the worst kept secrets in football when they appointed the 57-year-old Australian as their new manager on a four-year deal.

The length of the deal is telling too; they are investing in him as much as he is investing in them.

While many Spurs fans may be taking to Google – and learning how to spell, or even pronounce, Postecoglou – fans around the world in Glasgow, Yokohama, Brisbane and Melbourne already know how this story plays out.

When you appoint Ange Postecoglou, you get all of him. You get his heart and soul, and far aside from the football – which is always exhilarating – it's that heart and soul which sets Postecoglou apart.

His experience in Glasgow is perhaps the most like-for-like comparison with what we will witness in North London.

When news broke of his likely appointment as Celtic manager, after the Hoops failed to seal the deal with their preferred candidate, Eddie Howe, he was widely mocked by the fans and the unforgiving Scottish media who seemingly looked no further than his passport before declaring the serial winner was not good enough for the rough and tumble of the Scottish Premiership.

In a clip that has since gone viral, former Scotland international Alan Brazil declared on TalkSport that his appointment “must be a wind up”, before condescendingly adding: “Where do they come up with these guys?”

Two years later he leaves Parkhead as one of Celtic’s most revered managers, with the bond between coach and fan as strong as you will see anywhere in world football. Celtic fans today will be feeling