Success is the cups is not necessarily a guarantee for Postecoglou if League form does not pick up - Daniel Levy infamously sacked Jose Mourinho six days before a League Cup final - but they offer another route to European football next term, as well as an end to the club's long and painful trophy drought.

Ange Postecoglou has admitted his Tottenham Hotspur players simply "cannot accept" the miserable run of form on which they find themselves. Wednesday's 2-1 defeat to Arsenal, while shrouded in controversy,