One night in May 2009, Frank Farina, the coach of Brisbane Roar, sat down to play board games with his family. He worked his way through a bottle of chardonnay and then had a couple of glasses of red. When he got in his car the next morning, he was still over the limit. As a consequence, 14 years later Ange Postecoglou was appointed manager of Tottenham. It was Farina’s second drink-driving offence in under three years. The Roar sacked him and, in their scramble for a replacement, turned to Postecoglou. Although he had success in Australia with South Melbourne, Postecoglou had drifted out of top-level coaching after a row with the television pundit Craig Foster while coach of the national under-20s that he feared had made him in effect “unemployable”. He had quit Panachaiki in the Greek third division after a dispute with the club owners and had been coaching the Melbourne semi-pro side Whittlesea Zebras while working as a TV pundit. But since then his career has been a catalogue of success: back-to-back …

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