‘He’s still with me’: Ange Postecoglou recalls late dad after historic Europa League win

What a magical morning.

That’s all we have for now from our live blog as Australia celebrates Ange Postecoglou leading Tottenham Hotspur to the Europe League title in Bilbao, Spain.

Spurs won the match 1-0 after a Brennan Johnson goal just before half-time and Postecoglou has become the first Australian and first Greek-born manager to win a major European title while the club has broken its 17-year trophy drought as well.

So from Athens to Melbourne to Tottenham to Bilbao and beyond - there will be joyous celebrations going on.

Here are the player ratings for the Spurs players today via The Telegraph, London.

Guglielmo Vicario

The Tottenham goalkeeper looked nervous at times. Never more so in the second half when he almost handed United an equaliser with a desperately bad punch. In the first half, he needlessly patted the ball out for a corner. But he did save from Garnacho and made a crucial last-gasp stop. 6

Pedro Porro

It was Porro’s early cross that had Onana in trouble and almost found Richarlison. The right-back took most of the set-pieces and was Tottenham’s most creative player in the absence of James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski in the first half. He was less of a threat when Spurs retreated, but defended well. 7

We touched on Ange Postecoglou’s cheeky retort to one of his critics, former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher, following this morning’s Europa League win.

But Carragher asked Postecoglou a great question on CBS Sports about how he kept his belief that the team could win in Europe despite their struggles and the Spurs coach gave an excellent answer.

Here you can see the inter-play between Ange, a shouting Micah Richards and Carragher before the questions began.

“This has been the toughest couple of years I’ve had in my career, but I knew it going into it because this club has had world-class managers, a lot better credentialled than I am, and haven’t been able to get there,” Postecoglou told CBS Sports.

Under even more pressure after losing the biggest game of the season, Ruben Amorim was left asking Manchester United fans to have some faith in the future.

His team lost 1-0 to Premier League rival Tottenham in the Europa League final on Thursday AEST as United caps off one of the worst seasons in club history.

“I have nothing to show to our fans, I’m really honest with that,” Amorim said. “But again, I will continue to do things the way I know.”

Amorim said he “will not quit” or “change,” and didn’t want to talk about his future right after the loss.

Spurs coach Ange Postecoglou can’t be sure of his future at the club, but he plans to coach the last Premier League game of the season this weekend and then take a family holiday and see what fate has in store for him.

Critics have circled in the second half of the season as the club struggled to win EPL games and fell to the lower end of the table, but this breakthrough Europa League title has shown the potential of Tottenham under Postecoglou.

It also showed he was willing to adjust his tactics to fit the moment, but when asked about his future, Postecoglou made his case.

“I said yesterday that I’m, kind of, not relaxed, that is not the word, because I’d be disappointed if we couldn’t continue on this path,” he said.