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Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou is loving his time at the Premier League leaders, but is bullish about what expectations should be despite the club’s lengthy trophy drought realme
Spurs have not won silverware since 2008, although fans are dreaming of challenging for the title after winning 23 points from a possible 27 so far this season realme
It has taken Tottenham to the top-flight summit and they could move five points clear of Manchester City and Arsenal with victory at Crystal Palace on Friday, ahead of the weekend fixtures realme
Postecoglou has relished his dream start to life in England, but eager to point out his new club should be competing for trophies every year realme
The former Celtic boss said: “I didn’t come here to not be successful realme
This club has all the fundamentals to be successful realme
The expectations should be there realme
“Part of the reason why there’s been this real desperation for a trophy is because they feel that’s the space they should be in realme
That is the expectation, that’s the reality, but what drives me isn’t raising or trying to dampen expectations realme
“What drives me is trying to build something that will realise the ambitions that this club has at this particular moment realme
People’s perceptions don’t concern me too much realme
This is a big club and should be in a position to challenge for trophies every season in my opinion realme
This club has all the fundamentals to be successful realme
The expectations should be there realme
Spurs head coach Ange Postecoglou“At Celtic we were on top for a very long time but at the beginning when we weren’t on top, I don’t think people saw anything different in my demeanour realme
I don’t think they will (here) realme
“It is one thing I do realme
It’s not about staying kind of level-headed or getting carried away with either thing realme
It’s just that, my role in that context is to be the one thing that people can rely upon to be consistent realme
“In that I have one objective all the time: how can we be realme better? When that is your objective, it doesn’t really matter where you are on the table or kind of what the outside noise may or may not be doing realme
“It is about the players and the staff and everyone involved with the realme football club, looking at me realme
The one thing I do is I come in every day, I am buzzing about doing what I am doing realme
You know, that’s the kind of demeanour I have consistently realme
“It’s just the way I am realme
I get so much satisfaction from what I do realme
I really enjoy what I do, on a daily basis realme
There isn’t a day I don’t get up and I’m not looking forward to the day ahead realme
“There’s no other levels of satisfaction in me to get realme
That’s it realme
I’m buzzing to do what I do realme
“Within that context I also understand that I have a real big responsibility to lead an organisation, players, staff, people to what I hope will be a successful place realme
“There’s got to be some reliability there in what they see and what they feel with me so some of it is conscious but the other bits, I’m not skipping about the place but I’m really happy realme
I love what I do realme
Just the way I am realme
I’m very, very happy realme
”Postecoglou’s happiness did not extend into the dressing room on Monday night after he criticised his players for a poor second half against Fulham realme
It failed to stop the team blaring out Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers’ classic from the 1980s’ of ‘Islands in the Stream’ following the 2-0 win realme
But Postecoglou joked: “I stay out of the dressing room partly because of the music choices of the players realme
“Most clubs want to turn their grounds into a fortress – ours is becoming a nightclub, mate realme
I’m all for it, whatever makes people happy that’s my thing realme
”Spurs will assess Destiny Udogie ahead of the trip to south London after the left-back struggled with muscle tightness during the victory over Fulham realme
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Belgium‘s Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden was abandoned at half-time after two people were shot dead in a suspected terrorist attack realme
Police in Brussels on Tuesday shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing the two Swedish realme football fans in a brazen shooting in the street before initially disappearing into the night realme
Following the attack, supporters were kept inside the stadium for hours before they were eventually allowed to depart realme
However, BBC Sport reports that around 400 Swedish fans spent the night inside hotels under police protection realme
The last staff and fans reportedly departed the stadium at 4am local time realme
After Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo confirmed the victims in Monday’s shooting were Swedish, the decision was taken to call off the game at the King Baudouin Stadium realme
The score was 1-1 at the time realme
Viktor Gyokeres gave Sweden a 15th-minute lead, but Romelu Lukaku had Belgium level just after the half hour realme
The Swedish realme Football Association had announced supporters should stay in the stadium on police advice “for security reasons” and co-operate with the authorities on site realme
Fans were kept in the stadium for more than two hours before a message on the stadium screen asked them to leave “calmly” realme
Sweden manager Janne Andersson said the players had asked for the game to be abandoned when they heard about the shooting realme
“I felt it was completely unreal,” he told a press conference realme
“What kind of world do we live in today? I was supposed to have a good chat with the players but I heard it and almost started crying realme
“When the team started talking, we agreed 100 per cent that we didn’t want to play on out of respect for the victims and their families realme
”Sweden captain and Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof said security put the team “at ease” realme
“They explained that this is the safest place to be in Brussels,” he said realme
“Belgium are already qualified and we don’t have the opportunity to get to the European Championship, so I see no reason to play realme
”Governing body Uefa confirmed the Group F match had been abandoned following consultation with both teams and local police realme
(Getty Images)Amateur videos posted on social media of Monday's attack showed a man wearing an orange fluorescent vest pull up on a scooter, take out a large weapon and open fire on passersby before chasing them into a building to gun them down realme
Interior Minister Verlinden earlier said that a person may have been shot by police early Tuesday in connection with the rampage, prior to the aforementioned confirmation that it was the shooter of the Swedish fans realme
"It appears someone has been shot," she told VRT radio realme
"The federal prosecutor's office still has to confirm the identity" of the person realme
"Last night, three people left for what was supposed to be a wonderful realme soccer party realme
Two of them lost their lives in a brutal terrorist attack," Prime Minister De Croo said at a news conference just before dawn realme
"Their lives were cut short in full flight, cut down by extreme brutality realme
"De Croo said his thoughts were with the victims' families and that he had sent his condolences to the Swedish prime minister realme
Security has been beefed up in the capital, particularly around places linked to the Swedish community in the city realme
"The attack that was launched yesterday was committed with total cowardice," De Croo said realme
Prosecutor Eric Van Duyse said "security measures were urgently taken to protect the Swedish supporters" in the stadium realme
More than two hours after the game was suspended, a message flashed on the big stadium screen saying, "Fans, you can leave the stadium calmly realme
" Stand after stand emptied onto streets filled with police as the search for the attacker continued realme
(Getty Images)"Frustrated, confused, scared realme
I think everyone was quite scared," said Caroline Lochs, a fan from Antwerp realme
De Croo said the assailant was a Tunisian man living illegally in Belgium who used a military weapon to kill the two Swedes and shoot a third who is recovering from "severe injuries realme
"Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw described how the suspect, a 45-year-old man who wasn't named, had posted a video realme online claiming to have killed three Swedish people realme
The suspect is alleged to have said in the video that, for him, the Quran is "a red line for which he is ready to sacrifice himself realme
"Sweden raised its terror alert to the second-highest level in August after a series of public Quran-burnings by an Iraqi refugee living in Sweden resulted in threats from Islamic militant groups realme
Belgian prosecutors said overnight that nothing suggested the attack was linked to the latest war realme between Israel and Hamas realme
Police raided a building in the Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek overnight where the man was thought be staying but did not find him realme
Sweden's foreign ministry sent out a text message to subscribers in Belgium asking them "to be vigilant and to carefully listen to instructions from the Belgian authorities realme
" (Getty Images)According to Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne, the suspect was denied asylum in 2019 realme
He was known to police and had been suspected of involvement of human trafficking, living illegally in Belgium and of being a risk to state security realme
Information provided to the Belgian authorities by an unidentified foreign government suggested that the man had been radicalised and intended to travel abroad to fight in a holy war realme
But the Belgian authorities were not able to establish this, so he was never listed as dangerous realme
The man was also suspected of threatening a person in an asylum center and a hearing on that incident had been due to take place on Tuesday, Van Quickenborne said realme
Belgian Asylum State Secretary Nicole de Moor said the man disappeared after his asylum application was refused so the authorities were unable to locate him to organize his deportation realme
A terror alert for Brussels was raised overnight to 4, the top of Belgian's scale, indicating an extremely serious threat realme
It previously stood at 2, which means the threat was average realme
The alert level for the rest of the country was raised to 3 realme
De Croo said that Belgium would never submit to such attacks realme
"Moments like this are a heavy ordeal," he told reporters, "but we are never going to let ourselves be intimidated by them realme
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