All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur (2020) s01e04 Episode Script
Season's Greetings
1
The first question is,
"how many of you won the FA Cup?"
And I know the answer.
You all want to win the FA Cup.
The next point is,
what you are ready to do
to win the FA Cup?
To win the FA Cup,
you need a lot.
And to win against these teams
is not easy.
They are coming aggressive.
For sure, they are coming
for the game of their life.
They are going to kick you.
They are going to bang you.
We need to take this game very serious
or we are fucked.
We are out.
A new era begins for Tottenham Hotspur.
The most important thing
Courage.
Honesty.
Family.
Listen to Tottenham Hotspur's
stadium now.
Let's go together, boys.
Come on!
- Daniel, good to see you.
- How are you?
José Mourinho's here.
Daniel, here's the microphone.
We all want Christmas presents.
I asked Father Christmas
for one or two.
To finish in the top four.
And win a trophy.
For Tottenham Hotspur,
Christmas is a busy time
Merry Christmas!
with messages for fans,
visits to the local community,
and also preparation
for an intense number of matches
over the festive period.
Now, there's a third muscle along
It's also the busiest time of year
for the team of ten full time physios
who work under Geoff Scott.
Our responsibility is to the player,
but there's always pressure.
It always feels like,
even with one injured player,
that's the player they want the most.
We don't want you running
until you can hop,
we'll work in the pool
and get you hopping.
When you've got an injured player
and you've got to be careful
around an injury,
but you're pushing them
to that high level.
It's very difficult.
And stressful
because the last thing we want
is our players to break down.
Morning, boss.
Just from the games,
there were two problems.
So, Dier got that heavy challenge
on the inside of his foot.
That's quite bruised today,
he cannot hop.
So
It should settle
because it's a bruise,
but we have to see
over the next day or so.
Maybe it's very quick.
And Rose, in the game, nothing.
But he did the box-to-box
running after
and he was aware of his calf muscle.
Again, pain on hopping,
showing signs of a calf problem.
So, we need to just investigate.
And, obviously,
Kyle Walker-Peters, yesterday
Kyle Walker-Peters.
Rose.
- Eric Dier.
- Dier.
Davies.
So, we have ten players.
- Thank you very much.
- OK.
The injury list is growing,
and with Heung-Min Son
suspended for three games,
José is lacking players.
It’s fucked.
Walker-Peters is injured.
Danny Rose, they say as well.
Carlos said he doesn’t know
if he trains today or not.
Are there any kids?
There may be three.
Where are they?
Three players have been called up
to join the first team.
They've all come through
Tottenham's football academy,
considered to be
one of the best in world.
Whenever this happens,
it's down to kitman Steve Dukes
to create some space in the Boot Room.
I started off at the club
as a steward in 1987.
I've been here quite a long time,
part of the furniture.
- Alright, treacle? How are you?
- You OK?
The Academy side's on one side,
and the first team's
on this side.
All the players, Harry Kane,
Winksy, Kyle Walker-Peters
They've all been round there.
Like some of these lot.
Here you are
- Harv, how long you been here?
- Ten years.
- Ten years. What age?
- Like, under eights.
- And, you've just come?
- Yeah, yeah, recently.
- From where?
- Notts County.
- Notts County.
- Yeah.
The academy boys come up as scholars.
Seeing them grow up,
you sort of grow towards them.
And sometimes you actually do feel like
they're one of your own as well.
So basically,
we've had three young lads from the 23s.
They're gonna be moved to
the first team dressing room
with the senior players.
For the young lads
who've come through the academy,
it's massive because they've been here
since they were young kids.
So, to come through the ranks
and get into the first team is huge.
One of the players selected by José
is 20 year old defender Japhet Tanganga
who was just nine when he joined the club.
He still lives with his mum and dad
less than two miles from the stadium.
This is important to me and I need
to concentrate and be disciplined.
I still got a long way to go.
A lot of people don't know this,
but I got scouted by Chelsea first.
So yeah, got scouted by Chelsea,
had a few trials there.
And I came from my local club,
Edmonton All Stars,
which is not far from the stadium,
like down the road.
For me to be working under
the best manager in the world,
it doesn't get any better than that.
You've got to compose yourself,
you cannot show that
that you're some kind of fan.
You have to be like, "Oh no."
He doesn't know my capabilities,
but I have the opportunity to give him
a good example of myself.
And show what I'm capable of doing.
Come on a bit of quality, guys.
Come on.
When a player
comes from the youth pathway,
and grew up in the club having a dream,
I think these kids,
when they come to the first team,
they have something.
They have passion.
These emotional things
are very, very important.
OK. I press.
I control the space.
It's a big transition, I'd say.
You have to understand that
there are players ahead of you
doing this week in, week out,
have more experience, but
you can't let that affect you.
It's out of your hands.
Birthday boy!
Whey!
Happy birthday to you ♪
Hey!
Happy birthday to you ♪
Happy birthday dear Serge ♪
Happy birthday to you ♪♪
Go on.
Put it in your mouth.
A very, very Merry Christmas
to every single Tottenham supporter
across the world.
We've got games
coming thick and fast.
We need to be pushing
for that top four place.
It's five thirty in the evening
on Christmas Day,
time for the team to report for training.
- Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas, Harry.
- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas.
Ho, ho, ho.
- Merry Christmas, mate.
- Merry Christmas.
You see these guys more than your family
so you kind of get used to it, but
Do you give each other presents?
- The team mates?
- Yeah.
I don't think so.
I haven't seen anyone.
- There's no Secret Santa?
- No, I don't think so.
That would be good too.
- Did you get your mum a present?
- My mum?
- Yeah, I got my mum a present.
- What did you get her?
I got her a handbag, a purse,
- a nice combo.
- Guess where it's from.
- You can guess, yeah.
- Louis Vuitton.
- Yes.
- Knew it.
Merry Christmas.
People know what it's like,
if you're a football player
you're famous, you have money, you have
But the nicest things in life,
you can't pay for it.
Believe me.
It is to see family on Christmas,
go out for a drink and
or just enjoy, you know.
Despite facing three matches
in just seven days,
the players are still in festive mood.
But for manager José Mourinho,
Christmas Day is proving
to be a difficult time.
I think the majority of you know
and some of you maybe think I am
I am just an idiot.
But the reality is that
I'm dead because my dog died.
It's my dog died and I'm fucked.
Deeply fucked.
And I want you to know that
because I don't want you to think
I am upset with you,
or I'm less confident or I'm less happy.
There is nothing to do with you at all.
Gaffer, what dog?
This one is a Yorkshire terrier.
Little one.
- For 13 years, he travels everywhere.
- Yeah.
He was a family member, no?
And fucking dies
in the fucking 24th of December.
Fucking hell.
- Japh, you good, kid?
- Yeah.
Let's go.
It's very, very light.
Just a warm-up.
And the box is nothing else.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Let's wake up with the right spirit.
Let's go there tomorrow
not with the feeling of,
"Ah, we lost" self-esteem
comes down a little bit. No.
Let's wake up and go there
with exactly the opposite feeling,
which is, "We lost, we have to win."
Tottenham's Boxing Day match
is against Brighton.
When they played
at the start of the season,
Spurs lost three-nil.
A defeat that also included a devastating
injury to club captain, Hugo Lloris.
Very difficult.
If it's not Webster, it's Duffy.
You have to win the space
and anticipate the space.
Be ready for this.
Be ready for this.
It's Brighton on Boxing Day
for Tottenham Hotspur.
José Mourinho's side
look to respond after the Chelsea defeat
as they continue
their pursuit of a top four spot.
Sessegnon makes his first
Premier League start for Spurs,
replacing Son, who starts a three-game ban
after his red card versus Chelsea.
Come on, hey!
Wake up, hey! Come on!
Come on!
For me, it's very, very simple.
The most important thing for me,
not in football, in life,
is courage, honesty,
good feelings, friendship.
That's the most important thing
in life and football.
We lost a game.
We have a game to play
and we have to go with balls,
with courage, with good feelings,
being positive,
being friends, being family.
That's the most important thing
in life and in football.
Let's go together, boys.
Come on!
Come on you Spurs!
Come on you Spurs!
Serge Aurier Wow!
And Lucas Moura now
has options in the middle.
A free kick has been given
against Harry Winks
who's saying
that should not be a free kick.
The likes of
Duffy and Webster are real threats
from this kind of situation.
Groß
And sure enough,
Brighton have scored,
and Webster is the man.
It's a disappointing
first half for Spurs.
They are losing one-nil.
You have to mark. You have to compete.
You have to use your body.
We need more initiative,
more spirit.
We need more competitiveness.
We need more desire.
We need to press them
and every time we make a pass like that
there is not people that
goes to win the second ball.
I can imagine
that big guy with a pass like that.
I can imagine that guy is going to jump
and is going to win that header.
You can not be affected
by your own disappointment.
When you lose the ball,
don't look to the sky.
React in a positive way.
We need positivity for this second half.
Positivity, belief, positivity, belief.
- Let's go. Come on.
- Let's go, boys.
Run to Kane
It's Harry Kane.
Harry Kane leads by example
in the second half,
lifting the team,
and bringing Spurs back into the game.
Aurier Dele Ali!
Wow! What a finish!
Kane
Ah, how good is that!
Harry Kane has worked so hard today.
Spurs needed that.
Kane and Dele Ali, the heroes today.
Tottenham Hotspur two, Brighton one.
He's the kind of striker that is fantastic
even if he doesn't score.
His work was absolutely phenomenal.
But I love the players
to finish the game exhausted,
and that's what these guys are doing.
I cannot even imagine that these boys
How can they play
in less than 48 hours because
any person that understands
physiology.
It's a crime that
they are going to play
football again on the 28th.
It is against every rule of
physiology, biology, biochemistry.
It's against every, every rule.
The distances they run, the intensity,
the sprints, the breaks
And here we go. Come on, hey!
José!
Dele Ali!
Just 48 hours later,
Spurs are on the road
with an away match
against Norwich City.
Kane scores his 17th goal of the season,
but Spurs only manage a draw.
Tottenham are now sixth in the league,
five points below
a Champions League spot.
It does get difficult,
especially that Christmas period
of 26th, 28th and 1st of January,
I think we're not robots.
I know it's a tradition
to play at Christmas time,
but it's very difficult
to produce level after level
and high intensity games
because your body
just can't recover that quickly.
The players have travelled
to Southampton for their next match.
So, New Year's Eve
will be spent alone in their hotel rooms.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to everyone.
So, tomorrow, as we’ve got a match,
we’ve got a match tomorrow,
there you go.
First of January we’re playing in a match.
Let’s pray we win tomorrow.
I hope, I hope, I hope.
- Hey, my man.
- What’s up?
Yeah, we’re at the hotel in Southampton,
we’re playing them tomorrow.
Aren’t you celebrating New Year’s Eve?
No, New Year’s Day.
I will be doing it in my room.
Oh, okay.
Like every year.
What are you doing?
Me? I’ll be at home
with the kids and the wife.
We’re going to stay in
and have a quiet one, you know.
Little, little family New Year’s.
Yeah you’re right, you’re right.
Well, Happy New Year in advance,
as I will be going to sleep soon.
Good health, long life.
A lot of happiness and success.
Your club as well.
You need to enjoy this kind of moment
because family is everything.
If you weren't in Southampton,
what would you be doing?
Probably the same,
yeah, I would be at home.
Because all my family, they are in London,
and they came over from Paris,
but because
we have a game tomorrow so,
it will not be possible
for me to do it with them, but, yeah.
I will do it tomorrow so
we are gonna have a meal all together
and try to have
a good time all together.
I think it's a very difficult match.
That's my feeling.
It's a match that we need to win.
It's a match that we can win,
but they try all the time
crosses to the strikers.
Let's press high.
Every time we lose the ball,
we press high.
We. Press. High.
Oh, when the Spurs
go marching in,
oh, when the Spurs go marching in
Kane shoots.
It wasn't far away from Harry Kane.
And Ings does score for Southampton.
Need a goal soon, Spurs,
if they do have ambitions
to win this one.
Oh, and I wonder if Harry Kane
has got a hamstring issue here.
Harry Kane, he's one of our own,
he's one of our own,
he's one of our own,
Harry Kane, he's one of our own.
Spurs lose the game one-nil.
But it's the loss of
their captain to injury
which is of far greater significance.
Everything that could go wrong
went wrong
and if Harry Kane is out injured,
that could be a big, big problem for us.
We're reliant on Harry Kane.
When we rely on Harry
for the seasons we do,
it's impossible to think
he can just carry on
We have to have
a decent striker on the bench, at least.
It's 48 hours
after Harry Kane's injury,
and fears mount over
just how serious it is.
- Have you seen him?
- We left him at home.
He's having a scan now,
so we'll know this morning.
So, we'll have to see,
but fingers crossed.
If it's not on the tendon
then it's not as bad.
Well, hopefully,
but he left on crutches
in quite a lot of pain so
- Is he still in pain now?
- I think so. I think it's uncomfortable.
But he left on crutches,
which is something you don't often see
in the lower grade injuries.
Obviously, I had an injury at the start.
Your heart just sinks, because you know,
I couldn't even stand on it.
"What's gonna happen next?"
"How long will I be out for?"
It's the worst feeling, I think.
The medical team are waiting
for the results of Harry's scan.
Sorry, here's Gajan.
Hi, Gajan.
Yeah, not too bad, mate.
How about you?
OK, you've seen it already?
It's definitely a C injury
as it involves the inter muscular tendon.
And the muscle's lost significant tension
so it's a high three C.
Oh, no. OK.
OK. So it's probably
about 12 weeks or something like that.
OK. Cheers, mate.
Oh, my God.
It's very close to being a total
so it could be surgical.
I think he wants to show you pictures.
It's definitely not the old grade one
that you were playing with.
I don't think so.
How you doing? Yeah, sit down.
Harry it's not good news.
I think you can probably feel
it's a big strain.
- Right, yeah.
- So this is basically as bad as it gets.
We will get you to see a specialist,
so a surgeon
who specialises in hamstrings,
but some of these
become surgical cases.
It's really rare, but the surgeon
has to make that decision.
And, you know, it's pretty substantial
amount of bleeding and substantial tear.
OK.
When it happened,
I felt like a pop in my hamstrings.
But I've never had
a muscle injury before, so
I knew I'd done something,
but I didn't realise how
whether it was that bad.
Some of that tendon has gone.
It's difficult to accept,
but it's something that you can't control.
I think the scary thing
is that it goes so quick.
The seasons go so quick.
The time goes so quick.
I'm 27 in the summer
and it feels like I started last year.
That's the thing when you're so non-stop,
you don't have time to process it all
and it's like, on the next one and
all of a sudden you're getting to 32, 33,
and you're thinking,
"I ain't got too long left."
If there's no surgery needed
and it goes well,
it's about 12 weeks, so long.
OK? So, sorry about that, mate.
You kind of see the look on their faces
when they get something.
The pain's one thing,
but they are devastated, you know?
They know they're going to be taken away
from the thing they love
more than anything.
When they know
they're gonna be out for months,
it's a difficult time for them.
Got nothing and then, bam.
Especially, I’m telling you,
It’s because of the schedule.
The schedule is crazy.
How many injuries have we had?
Not just us, every club.
- Seventy five injuries, apparently.
- In the Premier League?
Moussa has a good injury as well.
- Moussa?
- Yeah.
It will be a
It could be a while.
A knee injury to midfielder
Moussa Sissoko in the same game
has left José
with even fewer players to choose from.
Tell me, tell me.
Harry Kane's scan's come back
and it almost can't be worse.
They think there's some fibres there.
So, we will get
our specialist to look at it.
Some of them, we've never had one,
but some of them do have surgery.
But we would hope this one is not.
We'll have to speak to him.
It's a very high-grade strain.
But we are speaking about a long time?
If there's no surgery
then about twelve weeks.
Come on, it's a joke.
That's end of season.
OK. Change the side, boys.
Three months.
Minimum minimum.
Three months if he doesn’t have surgery.
Three months out.
We’re fucked.
José must now deal with the loss
of five first team players through injury.
Harry Kane, I think he's irreplaceable,
but we have to try solutions.
If you go through our squad.
No, Danny Rose. No, Hugo Lloris.
No, Harry Kane.
When you say, "No, no, no, no"
You have to say, "Skipp, Tanganga,
and Parrott and the young boys in."
Yes, Tanga!
Young players,
if they are in the right frame of mind,
they bring something
that I used to call fear to the others,
but it's a fear
that I love to have in the squad,
which is, they become
competitive team mates,
and this is very, very important.
So, Japh Japha.
When you gonna sign your contract?
Who, me?
I don't know, man.
- That means he knows.
- I actually don't.
- You know that.
- I don't know.
Ask him.
I love football and I know with football,
you get a lot of rewards if you do well.
I just want to use
those rewards to help my family
and repay them back.
You know,
just how much they've helped me,
how much they've sacrificed for me.
My dad, he would miss work
to drop me at training.
He would come to games
where it's snowing,
it's raining, it's cold.
My mum's not the same,
she doesn't come to a lot of games,
but just how she helps me
at home and how she always teaches me.
You know, say I don't have a good game,
she always knows how to cheer me up.
She always knows
how to put me back in a good mood.
And I'm grateful for both of them.
I just wanna be able
to repay that back for them,
so that's the pressure
I put on myself.
So, when it contracts,
you know now when it goes, "shhh,"
I want you to think about
contracting here.
- As well?
- Yeah.
Have we seen shape
for the team tomorrow?
There's a Japhet call,
Japhet at right-back call.
Serge on the right-wing.
The squad for Tottenham's next fixture
has just been announced.
Just a few weeks ago,
local boy Japhet Tanganga
was playing for the under-23s.
He's now been selected
for his Premier League debut
against runaway leaders Liverpool.
My dad was in the kitchen
and he was just speaking to me,
"Japh, this is a big day.
It's a very big day.
This is like your opportunity to
stamp your mark
in the world of football."
Then as soon as I get to my room,
it just hit me.
It's like, "Oh my days, I'm about to make
my Premier League debut."
I've waited
for this opportunity for so long.
I just started crying a bit.
And then I had to just sort myself out.
"OK, I've got to sort myself out now.
I've got a game."
Number 27, Lucas Moura.
And, number 39, Japhet Tanganga.
Oh, we've got the line-up.
- Gazzaniga, Aurier, Tangan
- Winks rather than Dier.
Tanganga.
Two-one Mané I reckon.
Two-one Mané. Sorry, scouser here.
How you doing? Alright, fella?
- Turn it off.
- Forgot about that.
To play against Liverpool,
shouldn't be a normal thing.
There are things in our career,
in my case, I have moments
in my career that I don't forget,
for good and for bad.
And when I have the opportunity
to face these ghosts of my career,
I I just want to do it.
You need to believe.
You really need
to be happy to play the game.
To understand the magnitude
of the task here for Spurs,
Liverpool are unbeaten
in 371 days of Premier League football.
Come on you Spurs.
The two sides that contested
the 2019 Champions League final meet here.
You have to be very aggressive
on the ball and stop shots.
Look at the occupation of the box.
Roberto Firmino's
in a good situation here.
Blocked by Tanganga.
It's brilliant defending.
Oxlade-Chamberlain
Tanganga to the rescue.
Potentially his first touch
in Premier League football.
Robertson.
Away by Tanganga.
Dele Ali
Now Spurs playing on the counter.
And Son
Firmino
Goal, Liverpool.
Spurs go in at half time one-nil down,
having rarely threatened
the Liverpool goal.
He's gone fucking through him.
And that's how they fucking score.
Don't be disappointed.
In this game,
there is no time to be disappointed.
You lose the ball.
You lose the pass.
You are frustrated.
You are not happy with yourself,
you made a mistake.
The intensity of the game is very high.
There is no space
for disappointment during the game.
Important that we don't lose our brain.
If we lose our brain, we are fucked.
We need to keep our concentration
on our basic things.
Very important.
And the last thing is that you give up.
And you see the feeling.
You see the feeling
with the guys, they support
because they see
you are going, you are going.
And you have to go more.
No regrets.
No regrets.
You can lose matches,
you cannot have regrets.
Let's go, hey!
Spurs have upped the intensity
in terms of pressing the ball.
And Dele Ali is going it alone
through the middle.
Big tackle from Van Dijk.
Still going here.
Good pressure from Lo Celso.
Wijnaldum has lost it.
Lucas Moura
Spurs into a good area.
Son to level the game, no.
Four inside the penalty area
Oh, what a ball!
And I'm not quite sure
how that's gone wide.
Tottenham lose one-nil.
With this loss, Spurs
have now slipped to eighth in the table,
nine points behind Chelsea in fourth.
- Hey, Japha. Unbelievable.
- Well done, Japha.
But a promising second half display
and strong performance
from new boy Tanganga
means the team
can take some positives from this defeat.
You were good then.
Believe me. You did very well.
Right, top three chocolate bars.
Oh, Dime, Drifter
Oh, Drifter!
Dime? It breaks your teeth.
Oh, Dime.
Dime, Drifter and Crunchie.
Crunchies are in my top three as well.
- Curly Wurly's up there.
- No, it's too chewy, man.
Toffee Crisp, I like Toffee Crisp.
- You eat chocolate bars?
- If anyone puts Bounty in their top three,
- Bounty's disgusting.
- I'm never speaking to you again.
-You OK?
Tottenham can now put
the league to one side
as they begin their FA Cup campaign,
arguably the club's best opportunity
for a trophy this season.
We are going to play
every minute of the FA Cup
with the maximum potential
that we have available,
with the passion
the FA Cup itself demands,
with the passion the fans demand.
The history they have.
The memories
The FA Cup is a very,
very special cup.
The FA Cup is the oldest
cup competition in world football.
Tottenham have won the trophy eight times.
And scored one of the most iconic goals
in FA Cup final history.
Villa
And still Ricky Villa
What a fantastic run!
He scored!
Amazing goal by Ricky Villa.
As a teenager,
the Ricardo Villa goal,
I was in my house with my dad,
and, of course, I don't forget.
So, I imagine
what it means for the Tottenham fans.
We have to play this cup seriously.
Spurs are drawn against Middlesbrough,
a team from the division below.
I think they can beat us.
Honestly, I think they can beat us.
Because, for sure,
they are coming aggressive.
For sure, they are coming
for the game of their life.
They are physical, they are tall,
they have nothing to lose.
They are coming with everything.
They know that they can do it.
We have to play very well.
I give
our two strikers to three guys,
I promise you that
they are going to have a hard time.
I promise you.
You are better.
You have mobility. You have speed.
You can fuck them.
But the principle of the game is that
they are going to give you a hard game.
Their first game was a draw,
so tonight, it's a replay
to see who progresses to the next round.
It's a big game. It's a must
It's a big game.
I've been coming here since 1959.
It's the magic of it,
it's the magic of it.
It's when you first
got interested in football as a kid.
It was the FA Cup.
We'd love to win the FA Cup.
- And the Premier League.
- Silverware has gotta be a priority.
I had so many sleepless nights.
There's so many things
that could go well in this game,
but there's so many things
that could go wrong.
You know, I have aspirations
dreams to do it at 16, 17,
but it's taken me,
you know, until I'm 20.
It's an opportunity that if I play well,
like, my life can change from here.
Good evening, welcome to Tottenham
Tottenham Hostpur's stadium
hosts FA Cup football for the first time.
Come on you Spurs.
We need to be ready.
To fight, we need to fight,
but we need to play.
We need to play and kill them by playing.
Lo Celso who takes over.
Lo Celso!
Spurs lead in the opening minutes.
Fletcher is a striker
and he has a good movement.
Mark the man.
And don't accept the cross,
try to stop the cross.
Away by Tanganga.
Lamela will go this alone here
to score for two-nil.
That is top class from Erik Lamela
back in the starting eleven tonight.
Goals from Argentinian pair
Erik Lamela and Giovani Lo Celso
see Tottenham take a two-nil lead,
but it's a far lesser known player
who steals the headlines.
Tanganga, look at the space here.
Tanganga!
Tanganga, lovely touch.
Oh, he's done superbly well here.
What a fine run from the young defender.
In towards Dele Ali
and Son nearly got there too.
Japhet Tanganga,
what a performance tonight!
Well, the Spurs fans love him.
Tottenham Hotspur move
into the fourth round of the FA Cup.
Four games, we haven't had a win,
today we finally got a win,
we're through.
Japhet, you look like you're loving life
at Spurs at the moment.
Two straight starts
and you are
the man of the match.
I'm just grateful
for the gaffer for trusting me.
You know, I'm just taking,
hopefully, each game as it comes.
Hopefully he
picks me for the next game,
when he picks me I'm ready.
Honestly, I'm enjoying it.
The fans are lovely.
The stadium's brilliant, I love it.
You are the man of the match.
Erik, could you do the honours for me?
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
Tanganga!
Tanganga. Tanganga!
That week for me was just amazing.
Just how things just changed so suddenly.
Did you know
you would get man of the match?
No. I thought to be fair
I thought maybe
if we got two-nil then, yeah.
They scored, I thought they might
give it to an attacking player,
but after I saw, I was talking
to a Middlesbrough player,
I played with him at England.
He said, "You've won man of the match."
I was very excited.
If Tanganga gets a run of games,
he could do something in centre-back.
He was amazing.
The way he just started
and he just smashed it.
So yeah, big up.
José Mourinho has uncovered
a potential star for the future,
but just as one arrives,
the transfer window opening
means he may have to deal
with the loss of others.
I was just now with Eriksen.
He told me that, by the end of the season,
he knows that, free contract,
he knows that, by the end
of the season he’ll be gone.
He said, "I don’t have anything.
In my head,
I would like to leave now."
So, I was thinking
about the Christian situation.
For a club of our size,
to allow a player to leave here on a free,
is a very bad signal to everybody else.
The issue for us today is
we have to try and find some solutions.
- Almost done, or what?
- I hope so.
First match is Man City.
Well, things are heating up.
The story of football is that
the teams of good guys,
they never win.
So fucking hell! Be a.
A dream goal!
Steven Bergwijn
has arrived in North London.
The first question is,
"how many of you won the FA Cup?"
And I know the answer.
You all want to win the FA Cup.
The next point is,
what you are ready to do
to win the FA Cup?
To win the FA Cup,
you need a lot.
And to win against these teams
is not easy.
They are coming aggressive.
For sure, they are coming
for the game of their life.
They are going to kick you.
They are going to bang you.
We need to take this game very serious
or we are fucked.
We are out.
A new era begins for Tottenham Hotspur.
The most important thing
Courage.
Honesty.
Family.
Listen to Tottenham Hotspur's
stadium now.
Let's go together, boys.
Come on!
- Daniel, good to see you.
- How are you?
José Mourinho's here.
Daniel, here's the microphone.
We all want Christmas presents.
I asked Father Christmas
for one or two.
To finish in the top four.
And win a trophy.
For Tottenham Hotspur,
Christmas is a busy time
Merry Christmas!
with messages for fans,
visits to the local community,
and also preparation
for an intense number of matches
over the festive period.
Now, there's a third muscle along
It's also the busiest time of year
for the team of ten full time physios
who work under Geoff Scott.
Our responsibility is to the player,
but there's always pressure.
It always feels like,
even with one injured player,
that's the player they want the most.
We don't want you running
until you can hop,
we'll work in the pool
and get you hopping.
When you've got an injured player
and you've got to be careful
around an injury,
but you're pushing them
to that high level.
It's very difficult.
And stressful
because the last thing we want
is our players to break down.
Morning, boss.
Just from the games,
there were two problems.
So, Dier got that heavy challenge
on the inside of his foot.
That's quite bruised today,
he cannot hop.
So
It should settle
because it's a bruise,
but we have to see
over the next day or so.
Maybe it's very quick.
And Rose, in the game, nothing.
But he did the box-to-box
running after
and he was aware of his calf muscle.
Again, pain on hopping,
showing signs of a calf problem.
So, we need to just investigate.
And, obviously,
Kyle Walker-Peters, yesterday
Kyle Walker-Peters.
Rose.
- Eric Dier.
- Dier.
Davies.
So, we have ten players.
- Thank you very much.
- OK.
The injury list is growing,
and with Heung-Min Son
suspended for three games,
José is lacking players.
It’s fucked.
Walker-Peters is injured.
Danny Rose, they say as well.
Carlos said he doesn’t know
if he trains today or not.
Are there any kids?
There may be three.
Where are they?
Three players have been called up
to join the first team.
They've all come through
Tottenham's football academy,
considered to be
one of the best in world.
Whenever this happens,
it's down to kitman Steve Dukes
to create some space in the Boot Room.
I started off at the club
as a steward in 1987.
I've been here quite a long time,
part of the furniture.
- Alright, treacle? How are you?
- You OK?
The Academy side's on one side,
and the first team's
on this side.
All the players, Harry Kane,
Winksy, Kyle Walker-Peters
They've all been round there.
Like some of these lot.
Here you are
- Harv, how long you been here?
- Ten years.
- Ten years. What age?
- Like, under eights.
- And, you've just come?
- Yeah, yeah, recently.
- From where?
- Notts County.
- Notts County.
- Yeah.
The academy boys come up as scholars.
Seeing them grow up,
you sort of grow towards them.
And sometimes you actually do feel like
they're one of your own as well.
So basically,
we've had three young lads from the 23s.
They're gonna be moved to
the first team dressing room
with the senior players.
For the young lads
who've come through the academy,
it's massive because they've been here
since they were young kids.
So, to come through the ranks
and get into the first team is huge.
One of the players selected by José
is 20 year old defender Japhet Tanganga
who was just nine when he joined the club.
He still lives with his mum and dad
less than two miles from the stadium.
This is important to me and I need
to concentrate and be disciplined.
I still got a long way to go.
A lot of people don't know this,
but I got scouted by Chelsea first.
So yeah, got scouted by Chelsea,
had a few trials there.
And I came from my local club,
Edmonton All Stars,
which is not far from the stadium,
like down the road.
For me to be working under
the best manager in the world,
it doesn't get any better than that.
You've got to compose yourself,
you cannot show that
that you're some kind of fan.
You have to be like, "Oh no."
He doesn't know my capabilities,
but I have the opportunity to give him
a good example of myself.
And show what I'm capable of doing.
Come on a bit of quality, guys.
Come on.
When a player
comes from the youth pathway,
and grew up in the club having a dream,
I think these kids,
when they come to the first team,
they have something.
They have passion.
These emotional things
are very, very important.
OK. I press.
I control the space.
It's a big transition, I'd say.
You have to understand that
there are players ahead of you
doing this week in, week out,
have more experience, but
you can't let that affect you.
It's out of your hands.
Birthday boy!
Whey!
Happy birthday to you ♪
Hey!
Happy birthday to you ♪
Happy birthday dear Serge ♪
Happy birthday to you ♪♪
Go on.
Put it in your mouth.
A very, very Merry Christmas
to every single Tottenham supporter
across the world.
We've got games
coming thick and fast.
We need to be pushing
for that top four place.
It's five thirty in the evening
on Christmas Day,
time for the team to report for training.
- Merry Christmas!
- Merry Christmas, Harry.
- Merry Christmas.
- Merry Christmas.
Ho, ho, ho.
- Merry Christmas, mate.
- Merry Christmas.
You see these guys more than your family
so you kind of get used to it, but
Do you give each other presents?
- The team mates?
- Yeah.
I don't think so.
I haven't seen anyone.
- There's no Secret Santa?
- No, I don't think so.
That would be good too.
- Did you get your mum a present?
- My mum?
- Yeah, I got my mum a present.
- What did you get her?
I got her a handbag, a purse,
- a nice combo.
- Guess where it's from.
- You can guess, yeah.
- Louis Vuitton.
- Yes.
- Knew it.
Merry Christmas.
People know what it's like,
if you're a football player
you're famous, you have money, you have
But the nicest things in life,
you can't pay for it.
Believe me.
It is to see family on Christmas,
go out for a drink and
or just enjoy, you know.
Despite facing three matches
in just seven days,
the players are still in festive mood.
But for manager José Mourinho,
Christmas Day is proving
to be a difficult time.
I think the majority of you know
and some of you maybe think I am
I am just an idiot.
But the reality is that
I'm dead because my dog died.
It's my dog died and I'm fucked.
Deeply fucked.
And I want you to know that
because I don't want you to think
I am upset with you,
or I'm less confident or I'm less happy.
There is nothing to do with you at all.
Gaffer, what dog?
This one is a Yorkshire terrier.
Little one.
- For 13 years, he travels everywhere.
- Yeah.
He was a family member, no?
And fucking dies
in the fucking 24th of December.
Fucking hell.
- Japh, you good, kid?
- Yeah.
Let's go.
It's very, very light.
Just a warm-up.
And the box is nothing else.
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Let's wake up with the right spirit.
Let's go there tomorrow
not with the feeling of,
"Ah, we lost" self-esteem
comes down a little bit. No.
Let's wake up and go there
with exactly the opposite feeling,
which is, "We lost, we have to win."
Tottenham's Boxing Day match
is against Brighton.
When they played
at the start of the season,
Spurs lost three-nil.
A defeat that also included a devastating
injury to club captain, Hugo Lloris.
Very difficult.
If it's not Webster, it's Duffy.
You have to win the space
and anticipate the space.
Be ready for this.
Be ready for this.
It's Brighton on Boxing Day
for Tottenham Hotspur.
José Mourinho's side
look to respond after the Chelsea defeat
as they continue
their pursuit of a top four spot.
Sessegnon makes his first
Premier League start for Spurs,
replacing Son, who starts a three-game ban
after his red card versus Chelsea.
Come on, hey!
Wake up, hey! Come on!
Come on!
For me, it's very, very simple.
The most important thing for me,
not in football, in life,
is courage, honesty,
good feelings, friendship.
That's the most important thing
in life and football.
We lost a game.
We have a game to play
and we have to go with balls,
with courage, with good feelings,
being positive,
being friends, being family.
That's the most important thing
in life and in football.
Let's go together, boys.
Come on!
Come on you Spurs!
Come on you Spurs!
Serge Aurier Wow!
And Lucas Moura now
has options in the middle.
A free kick has been given
against Harry Winks
who's saying
that should not be a free kick.
The likes of
Duffy and Webster are real threats
from this kind of situation.
Groß
And sure enough,
Brighton have scored,
and Webster is the man.
It's a disappointing
first half for Spurs.
They are losing one-nil.
You have to mark. You have to compete.
You have to use your body.
We need more initiative,
more spirit.
We need more competitiveness.
We need more desire.
We need to press them
and every time we make a pass like that
there is not people that
goes to win the second ball.
I can imagine
that big guy with a pass like that.
I can imagine that guy is going to jump
and is going to win that header.
You can not be affected
by your own disappointment.
When you lose the ball,
don't look to the sky.
React in a positive way.
We need positivity for this second half.
Positivity, belief, positivity, belief.
- Let's go. Come on.
- Let's go, boys.
Run to Kane
It's Harry Kane.
Harry Kane leads by example
in the second half,
lifting the team,
and bringing Spurs back into the game.
Aurier Dele Ali!
Wow! What a finish!
Kane
Ah, how good is that!
Harry Kane has worked so hard today.
Spurs needed that.
Kane and Dele Ali, the heroes today.
Tottenham Hotspur two, Brighton one.
He's the kind of striker that is fantastic
even if he doesn't score.
His work was absolutely phenomenal.
But I love the players
to finish the game exhausted,
and that's what these guys are doing.
I cannot even imagine that these boys
How can they play
in less than 48 hours because
any person that understands
physiology.
It's a crime that
they are going to play
football again on the 28th.
It is against every rule of
physiology, biology, biochemistry.
It's against every, every rule.
The distances they run, the intensity,
the sprints, the breaks
And here we go. Come on, hey!
José!
Dele Ali!
Just 48 hours later,
Spurs are on the road
with an away match
against Norwich City.
Kane scores his 17th goal of the season,
but Spurs only manage a draw.
Tottenham are now sixth in the league,
five points below
a Champions League spot.
It does get difficult,
especially that Christmas period
of 26th, 28th and 1st of January,
I think we're not robots.
I know it's a tradition
to play at Christmas time,
but it's very difficult
to produce level after level
and high intensity games
because your body
just can't recover that quickly.
The players have travelled
to Southampton for their next match.
So, New Year's Eve
will be spent alone in their hotel rooms.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to everyone.
So, tomorrow, as we’ve got a match,
we’ve got a match tomorrow,
there you go.
First of January we’re playing in a match.
Let’s pray we win tomorrow.
I hope, I hope, I hope.
- Hey, my man.
- What’s up?
Yeah, we’re at the hotel in Southampton,
we’re playing them tomorrow.
Aren’t you celebrating New Year’s Eve?
No, New Year’s Day.
I will be doing it in my room.
Oh, okay.
Like every year.
What are you doing?
Me? I’ll be at home
with the kids and the wife.
We’re going to stay in
and have a quiet one, you know.
Little, little family New Year’s.
Yeah you’re right, you’re right.
Well, Happy New Year in advance,
as I will be going to sleep soon.
Good health, long life.
A lot of happiness and success.
Your club as well.
You need to enjoy this kind of moment
because family is everything.
If you weren't in Southampton,
what would you be doing?
Probably the same,
yeah, I would be at home.
Because all my family, they are in London,
and they came over from Paris,
but because
we have a game tomorrow so,
it will not be possible
for me to do it with them, but, yeah.
I will do it tomorrow so
we are gonna have a meal all together
and try to have
a good time all together.
I think it's a very difficult match.
That's my feeling.
It's a match that we need to win.
It's a match that we can win,
but they try all the time
crosses to the strikers.
Let's press high.
Every time we lose the ball,
we press high.
We. Press. High.
Oh, when the Spurs
go marching in,
oh, when the Spurs go marching in
Kane shoots.
It wasn't far away from Harry Kane.
And Ings does score for Southampton.
Need a goal soon, Spurs,
if they do have ambitions
to win this one.
Oh, and I wonder if Harry Kane
has got a hamstring issue here.
Harry Kane, he's one of our own,
he's one of our own,
he's one of our own,
Harry Kane, he's one of our own.
Spurs lose the game one-nil.
But it's the loss of
their captain to injury
which is of far greater significance.
Everything that could go wrong
went wrong
and if Harry Kane is out injured,
that could be a big, big problem for us.
We're reliant on Harry Kane.
When we rely on Harry
for the seasons we do,
it's impossible to think
he can just carry on
We have to have
a decent striker on the bench, at least.
It's 48 hours
after Harry Kane's injury,
and fears mount over
just how serious it is.
- Have you seen him?
- We left him at home.
He's having a scan now,
so we'll know this morning.
So, we'll have to see,
but fingers crossed.
If it's not on the tendon
then it's not as bad.
Well, hopefully,
but he left on crutches
in quite a lot of pain so
- Is he still in pain now?
- I think so. I think it's uncomfortable.
But he left on crutches,
which is something you don't often see
in the lower grade injuries.
Obviously, I had an injury at the start.
Your heart just sinks, because you know,
I couldn't even stand on it.
"What's gonna happen next?"
"How long will I be out for?"
It's the worst feeling, I think.
The medical team are waiting
for the results of Harry's scan.
Sorry, here's Gajan.
Hi, Gajan.
Yeah, not too bad, mate.
How about you?
OK, you've seen it already?
It's definitely a C injury
as it involves the inter muscular tendon.
And the muscle's lost significant tension
so it's a high three C.
Oh, no. OK.
OK. So it's probably
about 12 weeks or something like that.
OK. Cheers, mate.
Oh, my God.
It's very close to being a total
so it could be surgical.
I think he wants to show you pictures.
It's definitely not the old grade one
that you were playing with.
I don't think so.
How you doing? Yeah, sit down.
Harry it's not good news.
I think you can probably feel
it's a big strain.
- Right, yeah.
- So this is basically as bad as it gets.
We will get you to see a specialist,
so a surgeon
who specialises in hamstrings,
but some of these
become surgical cases.
It's really rare, but the surgeon
has to make that decision.
And, you know, it's pretty substantial
amount of bleeding and substantial tear.
OK.
When it happened,
I felt like a pop in my hamstrings.
But I've never had
a muscle injury before, so
I knew I'd done something,
but I didn't realise how
whether it was that bad.
Some of that tendon has gone.
It's difficult to accept,
but it's something that you can't control.
I think the scary thing
is that it goes so quick.
The seasons go so quick.
The time goes so quick.
I'm 27 in the summer
and it feels like I started last year.
That's the thing when you're so non-stop,
you don't have time to process it all
and it's like, on the next one and
all of a sudden you're getting to 32, 33,
and you're thinking,
"I ain't got too long left."
If there's no surgery needed
and it goes well,
it's about 12 weeks, so long.
OK? So, sorry about that, mate.
You kind of see the look on their faces
when they get something.
The pain's one thing,
but they are devastated, you know?
They know they're going to be taken away
from the thing they love
more than anything.
When they know
they're gonna be out for months,
it's a difficult time for them.
Got nothing and then, bam.
Especially, I’m telling you,
It’s because of the schedule.
The schedule is crazy.
How many injuries have we had?
Not just us, every club.
- Seventy five injuries, apparently.
- In the Premier League?
Moussa has a good injury as well.
- Moussa?
- Yeah.
It will be a
It could be a while.
A knee injury to midfielder
Moussa Sissoko in the same game
has left José
with even fewer players to choose from.
Tell me, tell me.
Harry Kane's scan's come back
and it almost can't be worse.
They think there's some fibres there.
So, we will get
our specialist to look at it.
Some of them, we've never had one,
but some of them do have surgery.
But we would hope this one is not.
We'll have to speak to him.
It's a very high-grade strain.
But we are speaking about a long time?
If there's no surgery
then about twelve weeks.
Come on, it's a joke.
That's end of season.
OK. Change the side, boys.
Three months.
Minimum minimum.
Three months if he doesn’t have surgery.
Three months out.
We’re fucked.
José must now deal with the loss
of five first team players through injury.
Harry Kane, I think he's irreplaceable,
but we have to try solutions.
If you go through our squad.
No, Danny Rose. No, Hugo Lloris.
No, Harry Kane.
When you say, "No, no, no, no"
You have to say, "Skipp, Tanganga,
and Parrott and the young boys in."
Yes, Tanga!
Young players,
if they are in the right frame of mind,
they bring something
that I used to call fear to the others,
but it's a fear
that I love to have in the squad,
which is, they become
competitive team mates,
and this is very, very important.
So, Japh Japha.
When you gonna sign your contract?
Who, me?
I don't know, man.
- That means he knows.
- I actually don't.
- You know that.
- I don't know.
Ask him.
I love football and I know with football,
you get a lot of rewards if you do well.
I just want to use
those rewards to help my family
and repay them back.
You know,
just how much they've helped me,
how much they've sacrificed for me.
My dad, he would miss work
to drop me at training.
He would come to games
where it's snowing,
it's raining, it's cold.
My mum's not the same,
she doesn't come to a lot of games,
but just how she helps me
at home and how she always teaches me.
You know, say I don't have a good game,
she always knows how to cheer me up.
She always knows
how to put me back in a good mood.
And I'm grateful for both of them.
I just wanna be able
to repay that back for them,
so that's the pressure
I put on myself.
So, when it contracts,
you know now when it goes, "shhh,"
I want you to think about
contracting here.
- As well?
- Yeah.
Have we seen shape
for the team tomorrow?
There's a Japhet call,
Japhet at right-back call.
Serge on the right-wing.
The squad for Tottenham's next fixture
has just been announced.
Just a few weeks ago,
local boy Japhet Tanganga
was playing for the under-23s.
He's now been selected
for his Premier League debut
against runaway leaders Liverpool.
My dad was in the kitchen
and he was just speaking to me,
"Japh, this is a big day.
It's a very big day.
This is like your opportunity to
stamp your mark
in the world of football."
Then as soon as I get to my room,
it just hit me.
It's like, "Oh my days, I'm about to make
my Premier League debut."
I've waited
for this opportunity for so long.
I just started crying a bit.
And then I had to just sort myself out.
"OK, I've got to sort myself out now.
I've got a game."
Number 27, Lucas Moura.
And, number 39, Japhet Tanganga.
Oh, we've got the line-up.
- Gazzaniga, Aurier, Tangan
- Winks rather than Dier.
Tanganga.
Two-one Mané I reckon.
Two-one Mané. Sorry, scouser here.
How you doing? Alright, fella?
- Turn it off.
- Forgot about that.
To play against Liverpool,
shouldn't be a normal thing.
There are things in our career,
in my case, I have moments
in my career that I don't forget,
for good and for bad.
And when I have the opportunity
to face these ghosts of my career,
I I just want to do it.
You need to believe.
You really need
to be happy to play the game.
To understand the magnitude
of the task here for Spurs,
Liverpool are unbeaten
in 371 days of Premier League football.
Come on you Spurs.
The two sides that contested
the 2019 Champions League final meet here.
You have to be very aggressive
on the ball and stop shots.
Look at the occupation of the box.
Roberto Firmino's
in a good situation here.
Blocked by Tanganga.
It's brilliant defending.
Oxlade-Chamberlain
Tanganga to the rescue.
Potentially his first touch
in Premier League football.
Robertson.
Away by Tanganga.
Dele Ali
Now Spurs playing on the counter.
And Son
Firmino
Goal, Liverpool.
Spurs go in at half time one-nil down,
having rarely threatened
the Liverpool goal.
He's gone fucking through him.
And that's how they fucking score.
Don't be disappointed.
In this game,
there is no time to be disappointed.
You lose the ball.
You lose the pass.
You are frustrated.
You are not happy with yourself,
you made a mistake.
The intensity of the game is very high.
There is no space
for disappointment during the game.
Important that we don't lose our brain.
If we lose our brain, we are fucked.
We need to keep our concentration
on our basic things.
Very important.
And the last thing is that you give up.
And you see the feeling.
You see the feeling
with the guys, they support
because they see
you are going, you are going.
And you have to go more.
No regrets.
No regrets.
You can lose matches,
you cannot have regrets.
Let's go, hey!
Spurs have upped the intensity
in terms of pressing the ball.
And Dele Ali is going it alone
through the middle.
Big tackle from Van Dijk.
Still going here.
Good pressure from Lo Celso.
Wijnaldum has lost it.
Lucas Moura
Spurs into a good area.
Son to level the game, no.
Four inside the penalty area
Oh, what a ball!
And I'm not quite sure
how that's gone wide.
Tottenham lose one-nil.
With this loss, Spurs
have now slipped to eighth in the table,
nine points behind Chelsea in fourth.
- Hey, Japha. Unbelievable.
- Well done, Japha.
But a promising second half display
and strong performance
from new boy Tanganga
means the team
can take some positives from this defeat.
You were good then.
Believe me. You did very well.
Right, top three chocolate bars.
Oh, Dime, Drifter
Oh, Drifter!
Dime? It breaks your teeth.
Oh, Dime.
Dime, Drifter and Crunchie.
Crunchies are in my top three as well.
- Curly Wurly's up there.
- No, it's too chewy, man.
Toffee Crisp, I like Toffee Crisp.
- You eat chocolate bars?
- If anyone puts Bounty in their top three,
- Bounty's disgusting.
- I'm never speaking to you again.
-You OK?
Tottenham can now put
the league to one side
as they begin their FA Cup campaign,
arguably the club's best opportunity
for a trophy this season.
We are going to play
every minute of the FA Cup
with the maximum potential
that we have available,
with the passion
the FA Cup itself demands,
with the passion the fans demand.
The history they have.
The memories
The FA Cup is a very,
very special cup.
The FA Cup is the oldest
cup competition in world football.
Tottenham have won the trophy eight times.
And scored one of the most iconic goals
in FA Cup final history.
Villa
And still Ricky Villa
What a fantastic run!
He scored!
Amazing goal by Ricky Villa.
As a teenager,
the Ricardo Villa goal,
I was in my house with my dad,
and, of course, I don't forget.
So, I imagine
what it means for the Tottenham fans.
We have to play this cup seriously.
Spurs are drawn against Middlesbrough,
a team from the division below.
I think they can beat us.
Honestly, I think they can beat us.
Because, for sure,
they are coming aggressive.
For sure, they are coming
for the game of their life.
They are physical, they are tall,
they have nothing to lose.
They are coming with everything.
They know that they can do it.
We have to play very well.
I give
our two strikers to three guys,
I promise you that
they are going to have a hard time.
I promise you.
You are better.
You have mobility. You have speed.
You can fuck them.
But the principle of the game is that
they are going to give you a hard game.
Their first game was a draw,
so tonight, it's a replay
to see who progresses to the next round.
It's a big game. It's a must
It's a big game.
I've been coming here since 1959.
It's the magic of it,
it's the magic of it.
It's when you first
got interested in football as a kid.
It was the FA Cup.
We'd love to win the FA Cup.
- And the Premier League.
- Silverware has gotta be a priority.
I had so many sleepless nights.
There's so many things
that could go well in this game,
but there's so many things
that could go wrong.
You know, I have aspirations
dreams to do it at 16, 17,
but it's taken me,
you know, until I'm 20.
It's an opportunity that if I play well,
like, my life can change from here.
Good evening, welcome to Tottenham
Tottenham Hostpur's stadium
hosts FA Cup football for the first time.
Come on you Spurs.
We need to be ready.
To fight, we need to fight,
but we need to play.
We need to play and kill them by playing.
Lo Celso who takes over.
Lo Celso!
Spurs lead in the opening minutes.
Fletcher is a striker
and he has a good movement.
Mark the man.
And don't accept the cross,
try to stop the cross.
Away by Tanganga.
Lamela will go this alone here
to score for two-nil.
That is top class from Erik Lamela
back in the starting eleven tonight.
Goals from Argentinian pair
Erik Lamela and Giovani Lo Celso
see Tottenham take a two-nil lead,
but it's a far lesser known player
who steals the headlines.
Tanganga, look at the space here.
Tanganga!
Tanganga, lovely touch.
Oh, he's done superbly well here.
What a fine run from the young defender.
In towards Dele Ali
and Son nearly got there too.
Japhet Tanganga,
what a performance tonight!
Well, the Spurs fans love him.
Tottenham Hotspur move
into the fourth round of the FA Cup.
Four games, we haven't had a win,
today we finally got a win,
we're through.
Japhet, you look like you're loving life
at Spurs at the moment.
Two straight starts
and you are
the man of the match.
I'm just grateful
for the gaffer for trusting me.
You know, I'm just taking,
hopefully, each game as it comes.
Hopefully he
picks me for the next game,
when he picks me I'm ready.
Honestly, I'm enjoying it.
The fans are lovely.
The stadium's brilliant, I love it.
You are the man of the match.
Erik, could you do the honours for me?
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
Tanganga!
Tanganga. Tanganga!
That week for me was just amazing.
Just how things just changed so suddenly.
Did you know
you would get man of the match?
No. I thought to be fair
I thought maybe
if we got two-nil then, yeah.
They scored, I thought they might
give it to an attacking player,
but after I saw, I was talking
to a Middlesbrough player,
I played with him at England.
He said, "You've won man of the match."
I was very excited.
If Tanganga gets a run of games,
he could do something in centre-back.
He was amazing.
The way he just started
and he just smashed it.
So yeah, big up.
José Mourinho has uncovered
a potential star for the future,
but just as one arrives,
the transfer window opening
means he may have to deal
with the loss of others.
I was just now with Eriksen.
He told me that, by the end of the season,
he knows that, free contract,
he knows that, by the end
of the season he’ll be gone.
He said, "I don’t have anything.
In my head,
I would like to leave now."
So, I was thinking
about the Christian situation.
For a club of our size,
to allow a player to leave here on a free,
is a very bad signal to everybody else.
The issue for us today is
we have to try and find some solutions.
- Almost done, or what?
- I hope so.
First match is Man City.
Well, things are heating up.
The story of football is that
the teams of good guys,
they never win.
So fucking hell! Be a.
A dream goal!
Steven Bergwijn
has arrived in North London.