They say the best way to handle a bully is with force. Alas, when the poet of Leeds went toe to claw with the devil of Tottenham, he left with the sort of wedgie that might require surgical extraction.
There are a great many nice things to be said about the way Marcelo Bielsa’s side play their games, and fewer compliments for the style of Jose Mourinho, but this was a scoreline and performance to stem some of the snootiness.
That it went Mourinho’s way was partially down to the vagaries of football, for Leeds had strong chances to go ahead, but it was largely by design.