Football: Mourinho moody as Spurs Kane Chelsea

Tottenham forward Harry Kane scored twice against Chelsea at White Hart Lane. Photo / AP

If the afternoon had started badly for Chelsea with Frank Lampard's second match-winning goal of the season for their title rivals Manchester City, it was safe to say it was about to get a lot worse. Jose Mourinho had never before lost a game to Tottenham and this was some way to have his record broken, going down 5-3 at White Hart Lane.

When the fifth Spurs goal went in, the defiance of the Chelsea manager slipped. Until then he had been berating the fourth official Andre Marriner and rearranging his team, but even he had accepted by then that this had been a rotten few days in the English Christmas football programme he claims to love so dearly: two points dropped at Southampton and now a rare defeat at the hands of a despised local rival.

Chelsea's spell of dominance has been broken for now and they lead the Premier League on little more than the rule of alphabetical order: their record is identical to that of Manchester City right down to goals scored and conceded. Mourinho has refused to change his team and this time they looked jaded, not least the big hitters such as Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas, who found themselves outplayed by a vibrant, attacking Spurs team.

After such an indifferent start to the season, Mauricio Pochettino must take great credit for his club's first win over Chelsea since April 2010 and his first over Mourinho as a manager. Their attacking spirit was embodied by Harry Kane, whose two goals take him to 17 for the season and mark the further emergence of an unorthodox but beguiling English talent.

It was the kind of game you might expect at the end of a draining Christmas run of matches, and it was compelling entertainment.

A Mourinho Chelsea team had never conceded four goals before, and when Nacer Chadli scored a fifth with 12 minutes left the game was over.

Yet Chelsea kept going and when John Terry scored his side's third there was an element of farce.

This kind of game, open and end-to-end, with defences run ragged and goals flying in, are not the brand of football Mourinho likes. All teams lose games, but this was the sort of chaotic defeat that will sting the most.

When Chelsea beat Spurs 3-0 at Stamford Bridge in early December the door was shut and bolted, the game as good as over as soon as the home team took the lead on 19 minutes.

This time the first goal for Mourinho's side arrived at roughly the same time, but Spurs' response was very different.

The away team were calling the shots for the first 17 minutes in the build-up to their goal. After that, the tone of the match changed.

These are the kind of days that they live for at Spurs, although when they went three goals ahead six minutes after the break there was mild disbelief. This was a game they had barely had a toehold in for the first 15 minutes and yet here was Kane again, spinning away from Nemanja Matic and confidently placing the ball past goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for his 17th goal of the season.

It would become heated on the Chelsea bench later, when Mourinho complained bitterly about the slowness with which the ball was returned to play. Then he would rage against a challenge by Federico Fazio on Eden Hazard. Before then Chelsea had brought the score back to 4-2, Hazard exchanging passes with Fabregas to score.

It took a save from Hugo Lloris to stop a strike from Cesar Azpilicueta before Nacer Chadli scored the fifth, a deflected shot off Terry.

The Chelsea captain scored the third for his team, arriving at the far post unmarked.

Before the end, Mourinho reached across for the handshakes with the opposite bench, although it was with rather less flourish this time.

- Independent