Amazon fly-on-the-wall documentary about Spurs

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I’ve definitely enjoyed all 6 episodes so far. The only negative feeling that I’ve felt from all these episodes is Steve Hitchen. He doesn’t strike me as a capable fella. The way he was speaking and behaving to the lady bringing him his espresso was imo kind of telling of how a person is. It felt demeaning towards the lady and all sort of high and mighty, like she’s beneath him and that she wouldn’t understand the challenges he’s going through.
 
After watching the documentary I really think we need some louder voices in the changing room, Mou is a tactician and a man manger but he doesn't quite have it when it comes to motivational talks from what I have seen, he has a very low-energy style of delivering his messages.
 
I can see why he was such a success at Chelsea, because he could also rely on loud players like Terry, Lampard, Drogba to reinforce his message and make some noise
 
If Eriksen wanted to leave for money he wouldn't have turned down Manchester United. He's a sincere and straightforward guy and simply wanted a change, he just had a baby, is heading into his "prime" years and had been at Spurs for 7 years. He just lost a CL final after years of not winning anything. It's perfectly understandable that he wanted a change.

Do we know if the baby is his?
 
Apart from Hitchen confirming all our worst fears of what Tim Sherwood would look like as a kind of Northern proper fooking footballer geezer DOF, the other massive take away from episodes 4-6 is how stuck in the past Mourinho is with his attitude to injuries.

This was how Ndombele got onto Mourinho’s naughty step in the first place, for not wanting to make an existing injury worse by playing with it.

We learn last night that Kane was playing with a grade 1 tear already when he did the grade 3 tear that kept him out for 12 weeks.

We saw the same kind of thing with Bergwijn.

Mourinho’s contempt for the doctor guy was palpable. Complete contrast to modern coaches and methods. Poch and AVB for example from what I can remember.

I agree with you. The policy on management of injuries and injured players needs to come from above. Jose is not a doctor.
 
Episode five is interesting in terms of Levy.

Everything he says is an excuse. He's the only one who I really feel is playing up for the cameras. It's all to show how his hands are tied. He wouldn't accept that sort of defeatism from a manager or group of players, but does indulge in it himself.

Of course, I'm sure it is extremely difficult. But the tone he adopts is markedly different from the rest of the club.
And he's got the shiftiest eyes I've seen for a long while.
 
Especially if it's other men doing the massaging. I know they don't ever hire females to do that job for obvious reasons but no straight male really wants another man massaging him. Unless they are Turkish where for some bizarre reason that seems to be part of their culture.

And before the politically correct jump out of their box, no i'm not homophobic. It's just a fact, that heterosexual men don't really want other men rubbing them down.
Actually the best massage you'll ever get would be in Hokkaido where the specialist massages are given by blind men who feel out the tension. Absolutely fantastic.
 
2 episodes dedicated to the 'fall of Poch' would have caused riots from a cross-section of our fanbase.... The minimal approach was best for all parties.
Stop making sweeping statements on behalf of our entire fanbase - just because you’re unable to pay any respect to Poch not everyone is. And why does it have to be all about his ‘fall’? Shameful
 
Lamela was a classic Argentine Number 10 at River Plate, converted to a left-footed RW by Roma where, as you say, he'd cut in dynamically.
Sadly, for a one-time Number 10, he just takes far too long to make his mind up and moves break down off him.
A classic #10 no longer exists in the modern game and hasn’t for quite some time - keep up
 
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