It was never going to be an easy ride for Nuno Espirito Santo as the Tottenham manager and to some extent, it really is not his fault that his tenure is fast unravelling.
Any manager that comes in as the fifth, sixth or seventh choice is always going to face an uphill battle to gain credibility with the fans and that is proving to be the case with the Portuguese.
Jose Mourinho was rather fortunate that there were no fans in the stadium when he was trotting out his brand of football and that probably kept him in the job longer than he deserved. Nuno does not have that luxury and that was clearly evident yesterday against Man Utd.
Nuno does not make it easy for himself, his starting lineup yesterday was very questionable, especially selecting Ben Davies over Sergio Reguilon at left-back and then when he substituted Lucas Moura and brought on Steven Bergwijn, the floodgates of disapproval opened up.
Tottenham posted up that substitution and you can see from some of the responses that it was not well received.