Despite sacking 14 of them in the Premier League era, Tottenham's choices of managers have - from the outset at least - carried some level of optimism to get excited about.
There have been exceptions, of course. Christian Gross looked doomed before he even managed a game after awkwardly showing off a London Underground tube ticket at his 1997 unveiling and declaring it as 'hopefully the ticket to his dreams'. He was gone a year later.
It might even be unfair to use that as a stick to beat him with, but the point is it's largely how his time at White Hart Lane is remembered.