As expected, the knives were out for Serge Aurier minutes after Tottenham Hotspur blew a three-goal lead at home to West Ham United on Sunday to draw 3-3 in frankly unexpected fashion.
Jose Mourinho’s team had raced into a 3-0 lead by the 16-minute mark, carried that seemingly unassailable advantage into half-time and would have made it four had Harry Kane’s 79th-minute left-footed shot from range been a few inches inside the post.
When the Englishman’s effort clipped the post and went wide, nobody would’ve thought the events of the next 12 minutes were possible.