Prime time Spurs

I’m going to avoid spoilers for now. I will wait for the next three episodes to drop and then do a Spoiler Special (which you can choose to read or ignore). Based on the first three eps that are now available on Amazon Prime, here’s my take on it:

I love it.

Ooh, edgy take.

Okay, so first things first; do not expect The Glory Game levels of insight into how a football clubs inner workings tick. But for what it is, it’s a good solid watch that Spurs fans will find essential viewing. So what is it? A Levy propaganda series? A showcase for the rebranded Mourinho? An advertising campaign to promote the THFC brand worldwide? Was the Amazon partnership the best sign up? Make sure you check out these betting sign up offers instead.

I guess it’s a bit of all of that.

You could get carried away with the conspiracy theories, including the one where Poch was sacked to make way for the more charismatic Jose to lead centre-stage. Regardless of the fact that this past season has been a mixture of the shambolic on field performances and pandemic hit dramas, it’s good content for us to enjoy. It’s in no way a humiliation or meme generating television misstep, that I’m sure our rival fans will attempt to salvage slices of it to prove it’s exactly that.

Again, I don’t want to give much away, but there’s some great scenes and discussions in there that might make you love certain players even more (especially Jan and even Serge – yes, Serge). It’s a bit safe and neat in presentation but it’s also equally slick in production. Spurs would not purposely allow themselves to look bad or sign off the producers to mug us off. Although I did cringe a touch when Levy spoke about the THFC workforce and the importance of community only to remember his furlough PR disaster.

Talking of Levy, his casual drop-ins to Jose’s office and the canteen are Brando levels of method acting. I’m jesting, it’s great to hear him talk. Actually talk. Not sure I’ve seen so much fronting from him on camera ever. The haters will no doubt hate, but I enjoy seeing him swagger and pretend to know how to run a billion pound enterprise more so than the fans that publicise how they would run it via Twitter.

I’m also fully in for Dele Alli and his irreverent thoughts.

As for Jose, well, there’s no getting away from him. I need to see more eps before I decide whether I like him, love him or hate him. The amount of c-words, f-bombs and the occasional ‘bastards’ he drops – I keep thinking I’m watching peak British porn where the starlets are encouraging their male co-star to go a bit deeper. Hoping Jose doesn’t cover himself in baked beans.

First three ep highlights: Jose and Dele meeting, Jose and Dier meeting, the pre-game tactics meetings and the half time dressing room talks.

As for Poch. He looked broken and mostly disinterested. I think Amazon not filming over the international break where we sacked him was a good thing. There are some things that are best not shared. What we did see was relatively kind and respectful.