Ange Postecoglou was there to see another defensive implosion, but this time he was not the coach who will have to deal with the fallout. For Tottenham, there was merely glee in becoming the latest side to exposing a multitude of flaws in Julen Lopetegui’s so-called revolution at West Ham.

The idea of Lopetegui as a tactical mastermind was never harder to take seriously than during a game in which his execrable team were obliterated by three goals in the space of eight mad second-half minutes. If there was resistance from West Ham, who were fortunate only to lose 4-1, it was limited to Mohammed Kudus seeing red for attempting to fight at least three Spurs players during the dying stages. Otherwise, though? There is only one word for it: surrender.