'I had 35 people coming to the pitch without shoes!': Cristian Stellini is used to management under trying circumstances after Antonio Conte's exit - having coached a team of refugees and misfits - including 'a goalkeeper without one eye!'

Crisis? What crisis? Cristian Stellini has plenty of perspective on football as he takes over at Tottenham in the post-Antonio Conte era, having seen the rough end of the game 10 years ago when he won cup glory with a team of refugees and misfits, who had no boots, a one-eyed goalkeeper and a player on the run from the law.

Stellini steps into the Tottenham hotseat after Conte’s departure. And with director of football Fabio Paratici stepping down to appeal his worldwide FIFA ban, the club were said to be in crisis.