All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur (2020) s01e08 Episode Script
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Since the moment I arrive,
I can only say, what happened to us
this season is impossible.
Impossible.
We knew twelve points
to the top four, really, really hard,
we knew that the distance was too big.
We managed to short
that distance to one point.
Ach No Harry Kane.
When you try to adapt
without that special player,
you find a balance.
You lose another one.
So, you lose the solution
that you found to resolve a problem.
Without injuries, we would be now
third or fourth.
We would be
in quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
We have now the Coronavirus situation.
But we have to try to be professionals.
Such a difficult challenge
that come for me
in the right moment of my career.
Because if it comes early,
maybe I will be not prepared
to cope with this situation.
It’s really hard.
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!
Fist bumps only, boys.
- Roberto right now it’s
- Oh no. No, it’s this in Italy.
It’s just a risk for Coronavirus, yeah.
I don’t know,
pretty soon maybe it'll be heads.
I’m just in favour of fist bumps
in general, you know?
To be honest, um, Coronavirus
isn’t the only thing that you can catch,
say in the morning you shake 40 hands,
how many of those people
have been to the toilet
and not washed their hands?
I always wash my hands
before I eat as a rule.
- Hey!
- You alright?
Four months ago,
José Mourinho was appointed mid-season,
his mission is for Tottenham Hotspur
to qualify for next year’s
lucrative Champions League
and win a long-awaited trophy.
Are we allowed to shake hands?
Oh, elbows alright?
After being knocked out of the FA Cup,
José is now competing on just two fronts,
the Premier League and making it to
quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Let’s go.
Burnley are up there
for the chance of top four, top five.
Do you have to prioritise?
Or do you have to go still for
the top four and Champions League?
Of course we want to to win
the match tomorrow.
Of course,
we want to to win the tie, Tuesday.
We have decisions to to make
because players available
especially for some positions
are not much.
José, it’s a difficult run of games,
you’ve lost your last three,
four if you include Norwich,
which is as bad as it’s ever been
in your career as manager.
Our squad is good.
In this moment, we are in trouble.
It’s so simple as that.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, guys.
Yeah, this is my spot, sort of there.
Yeah, that’s where you feel it, there.
It’s a very difficult season but
the most important is we’re still alive.
We are still alive
in Champions League for
in the league for the top four.
This is how we think.
To finish well the second part
of the season, to give everything
and to get back stronger.
It’s more tiredness
than anything else.
Maybe you’re altering the way
you’re running.
As players,
we wanna win every game but
you know, sometimes things don’t go
for you the way you would like it to.
It’s frustrating and draining, but
I feel like it’s not gonna be
long until we turn it around
and we know what we’ve gotta do.
After playing extra time
in their last game,
Tottenham now face
a tough trip to Burnley.
Mich, have you given Steven the heads up
about Burnley, what to expect?
Do you do you have
a team like that in Holland?
The thing is in Holland every team
every team tries to play football.
Like the physical side,
no team comes close.
We used to say, "Yeah,
but can they do it at Stoke
on a cold Tuesday night?"
It's now Burnley.
To keep their top four hopes alive,
Spurs need to take points from
their next three Premier League games.
This week,
they will also travel to Germany
for a must-win knock-out match
in the Champions League.
José has to work out how to get
the most out of his depleted squad.
Hey, José.
There’s a couple we need to watch today,
Dele, just left hamstring tightness,
Lo Celso, some adductor fatigue
and Lucas, just general fatigue.
Ben Davies, um, we think
he probably had a small hamstring strain.
So he cannot play Sunday? Saturday?
It will be difficult
for him to play, yeah. Yeah.
If players in your position are injured,
then you’re required to play more
frequently with kind of very little rest.
Premier League is it’s very intense.
Lo Celso has come in and, you know,
initially not played in every game but,
um, for the last few months
he’s played very regularly.
You can count on me.
I know I can, but
let’s see if we hang on in there.
You get on 30 minutes before the end.
You and Lucas go on together,
and then fresh for Tuesday.
- Everything’s done?
- You've got everything, yeah?
Yeah.
Let’s look at Burnley first of all,
they’re unbeaten in the league since Jan.
And they’re second
in the form table behind Liverpool.
We’ve lost four in a row.
You know it’s very early days
in José’s tenure,
but could this be
the beginning of the end for José?
It seems that he’s already given up on
this season, that’s the frustrating thing.
Ready to fight, eh?
We are better players, better team.
Come on. Let's go.
Get back on the winning way guys, huh?
Hey, come on!
No handshakes between
the two sets of players
has been seen across
the Premier League this weekend
due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
Spurs currently
without Kane, Sissoko and Foyth.
Son of course who's had surgery
on that broken arm.
Right in on the goalkeeper here
and is it over the line?
Not quite.
Spurs start slowly,
and Burnley dominate the first half.
What to do at half time?
That’s the question for José Mourinho.
Don't give up.
We need to win duels.
We need to recover the ball.
We cannot make defensive mistakes.
Yeah, a kind of spirit when you feel
and it looks like everything goes against.
Come on, let’s go.
In an effort to change the game,
José makes two half time substitutions.
Bringing on Lucas Moura
and Giovani Lo Celso.
We need to attack, we need to win,
we need to score, we need to go.
Press them higher.
We need to push the defensive line up.
OK? And keep the spirit.
The spirit, the spirit, the spirit.
And we keep going again,
going again,
in five minutes you win the game.
But you start from minute one,
you keep going.
With regular penalty takers Harry Kane
and Heung-min Son injured,
Dele steps up.
José, it was a greatly improved
performance second half.
- Yeah.
- You must be pleased
- with the reaction you got.
- I am.
My team was fantastic
in the second half.
We took risks.
We played, we build, we create.
We had Lo Celso,
that wanted the ball all the time.
We had Lo Celso always
with a fantastic selection of
of passes.
Great trickery here from Lo Celso and
he was clearly fouled there by Hendrick.
He was fantastic with the ball.
They couldn’t stop him.
And today I just love the mentality
of my team in in the second half of it.
Despite putting pressure on Burnley,
Spurs are unable to find a winning goal.
Dele’s equaliser from the penalty spot
puts an end to their run of losses.
But in the 92nd minute,
they’re dealt yet another injury blow.
There’s a foul on Bergwijn.
José, how’s Steven Bergwijn?
He seemed to be limping off
towards the end.
Yeah.
He’s injured but let’s see.
Let’s see if it’s something minor
and if he can makes
Because Tuesday I want only two options.
We win,
or we lose but we leave everything there.
Tired, not tired. Injured, not injured.
We go Tuesday there
with with everything.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
The draw means Spurs drop
to eighth in the table,
but are still in the running
for the top four.
What we did yesterday,
bringing two players from the bench
that changed that shit.
What I said, when I arrived here,
about Lo Celso,
"I don’t believe that he can do it."
He looked a shy kid.
And then, little by little,
the guy changed my mind
and I started giving him opportunities.
And the guy transformed himself
into what he is today.
At the beginning, with the arrival of
the coach, I didn't get to play,
but anyway, I knew
I had to train harder and show
what I could do on the pitch. And well
it’s difficult.
This year, in fact, we’ve suffered
from injuries to some important players.
Both Harry and Sonny.
They score many goals
and they’re very decisive.
When you’ve been doing the job you love
and it’s taken away for a while,
you have that itchy feeling,
I need to get back out there.
And I’m someone who finds it harder
to watch than to play,
because it’s not in your control.
We have difficult games ahead of us
and the Champions League round,
so we have to be good to overcome it all.
From a personal point of view,
it’s massive because I wanna be playing
Champions League when I'm back fit.
I went high speed running yesterday,
first time.
- What percentage did you get to?
- Seventy percent.
Just time now. It's just time.
Boys, good luck tomorrow.
New signing Steven Bergwijn
is out for the rest of the season.
José now has limited attacking options
as he takes his team to Leipzig.
OK.
This is normally their team, their system.
We go with Lucas,
with Dele,
and with Lamela.
You all play in the same area, OK?
You press them really high because
it’s exactly the same as,
as Wolves, for example.
We want to press high
and we have to be aggressive to go.
The two midfield players
are going with the pressure.
Are not going to stay in here worried
with what is going behind you.
Go. Everybody’s going.
Go quicker, Serge.
Go quicker, Lucas.
Go quicker, Dele.
And go.
And go.
This is what we have to do.
Very aggressive.
Come on, let’s go.
Five people in the UK have now died
after testing positive for Coronavirus
with 319 cases confirmed
We have a very significant disease,
an epidemic that
has the potential to be a pandemic.
So that means that sport,
where huge amounts of people gather,
has to go behind closed doors.
That’s what it means. End of discussion.
Oh, I left it upstairs.
I’ll have a look on
my phone in a minute. I’ll just
Chairman Daniel Levy,
and members of the Board
have travelled with the team to Leipzig.
They are meeting before the match
to discuss the club’s
annual financial statement.
The problem is we’re issuing
this statement against a background
where we’re not doing as well as
we’d like to be doing on the pitch.
Whereas we shouldn’t be positive
in terms of what we achieved last year,
it feels like it’s all forgotten,
which is a little bit understandable.
We need to put it into context.
The stadium opening
has got to be something we draw out.
- Yeah.
- I think getting
to the Champions League final,
regardless where we are today,
is an incredible achievement.
The profit for the year to June 19 was,
based on this number,
147 million, right?
The profit for the year to June 20
is likely to be lower than that, isn’t it?
- It will definitely be.
- OK.
Unless we get to Champions League final.
And clearly, if we finish
in a lower league position
- And the loss of the the TV and media.
- Yeah.
I think we need to look at
see what it looks like
and decide whether
we should put a bit of a warning
that this year’s number’s
not gonna be as good as last year’s.
And that puts into context the profit
that we’re going to be announcing.
I mean we have spent in the last 12 months
circa 140 million pounds
of net investment in the team,
which everyone seems to completely forget.
The Board are also reviewing
the recent Coronavirus outbreak
and how it might impact
the rest of the season.
If games were to be behind closed doors
Our business interruption insurance
didn’t anticipate a virus shutting it down
and anticipated us going
and hiring another stadium
and playing somewhere else.
I think they won’t make us play
behind closed doors,
in isolation, of not shutting down
public transport, schools, work, etc.
But anything can change.
We’ve got five home games left,
haven’t we?
Ignoring if we get through tonight?
- Yeah.
- Hm.
It’s season defining for Tottenham,
Champions League,
last 16 tie, second leg
against RB Leipzig.
Can we overturn the one-nil defeat
and get ourselves through
to the quarter-finals?
Tottenham, Tottenham, Tottenham,
Tottenham, Tottenham.
Tottenham, Tottenham
If we start well, I think we could win it.
We’ve had injuries,
but look where we are in the league.
We’re not that far off top four.
Yes, I know we’re a little bit behind
but we’re not that far off top four.
He is "The Chosen One."
He has done some amazing things
with clubs previously.
Can he do the same here?
You know, you never know.
He may need a bit more time.
I won trophies in every club,
so, I bring the expectation
to a certain level,
that with other people
there is no expectation. It’s my fault.
And if nobody
puts that pressure on myself,
I’m the first one to, to do it.
I want to live with that pressure.
But for lots of players in this club,
it’s probably something new for them,
and they have to learn
how to cope with it.
Don’t be naive. And doesn’t matter
what happen, we need to score two goals.
And remember believe,
because we’re gonna win this game, guys!
- Come on!
- Come on!
José Mourinho, you are manager
you have your responsibility,
but the responsibility
has to be shared with the players.
It’s about confidence.
When you start to get a few bad results.
You start to think too much,
but until the end, you give your best.
These are extraordinary times.
Many games across Europe,
including some of the Champions League,
are being played behind closed doors
this week due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
But Leipzig confirmed yesterday this game
would go ahead with a crowd,
for this Champions League
round of 16 second leg.
You can feel the magnitude
of the occasion.
José Mourinho
prowling the technical area,
it’s all about trying
to turn this tie around.
Lucas Moura, tonight.
This is his 39th game of the season.
Options waiting for it in white and red,
including Timo Werner
who thumps it against a Spurs defender.
The task just got tougher
for Tottenham Hotspur.
Lo Celso
I’m not entirely sure how
Giovani Lo Celso’s got through that gap.
Spurs need bodies in the middle here
for an Aurier cross.
It’s a low one, it’s a good one.
Oh, it’s a great goal.
And José Mourinho
needs an Amsterdam-style miracle
to see Spurs turn this around.
Half time.
Leipzig lead three-nil on aggregate.
We made mistakes.
We are not going even to speak about
the mistakes because we know the mistakes
that we made.
We are going to speak about,
we are losing three-nil.
We are losing three-nil
and we need three goals to win.
Three goals, in 45 minutes, in football,
is difficult, is possible.
And, if we don’t change the result,
if we don’t score three goals,
we die, but we die fucking fighting.
Not like scared kids, we have to go out,
like guys that give everything
until the last second.
Go with everything.
We need strong mentality.
Let’s go, hey.
Big balls, hey!
Come on, let’s go!
You arrive in in clubs
in different stages of the club,
of the squads, of the players.
We are in the moment of transition,
clearly, the moment of transition.
It’s all about qualifying for
the Champions League
via the Premier League now
for the remainder
of the season for Mourinho.
I want to try to transform
the mentality in the dressing room
and that is something that
normally comes with with time.
It’s not click of the fingers
that you manage to do that.
A statement from Arsenal
has recently been released
saying that their manager Mikel Arteta
has tested positive for Coronavirus.
All around Europe, all around the world,
sport is being suspended.
The MLS has shut down,
the NBA being called off,
Serie A is off,
La Liga is shutting down for two weeks.
We’ve also had a statement
from the Premier League.
They’re saying
they will have an emergency meeting
to discuss future fixtures.
No more information at this stage,
but this could throw
a spanner in the works
with the Premier League’s plans
to have fixtures this weekend.
It seems like
minute by minute now, this story
continues to grow bigger and bigger.
Spurs are due to play their next match
against Manchester United
in two days' time.
Hudson-Odoi has it.
Another Chelsea player has it.
You can have it two weeks
before any symptoms.
And Everton played them, so chances are
they probably have it as well.
They just have to cancel the whole league
because too many games
Best way, restart everything.
Imagine, that’s so good.
Champions League football again.
I guess it’s probably just worth talking
a bit about Coronavirus
'cause obviously it’s becoming
absolutely massive thing, um,
and I know a lot of things kind of sound
quite Doomesdayish, but actually
it’s likely that
in the next week or two
it’s gonna get a lot worse,
even than it is now.
A lot of games through Europe are either
postponed or behind closed doors,
so it’s relatively likely
that it will happen here.
Obviously,
it’s an unprecedented situation for us.
We’re watching the news
just looking for government updates
to see what’s happening,
we have to respond to
the information as it comes in.
And we have to
take it day-by-day, looking at
the simple things we can do
to protect ourselves.
Medical meeting.
It’s the doctor, he wants to talk.
For some players,
they’re very clued up on what’s happening,
but for others, they might not
understand the whole situation at all.
And we’re learning all the time as well.
Obviously, we’re here today
to talk a bit about Coronavirus.
Uh, we can’t stop it.
This virus cannot be stopped.
People will still get it.
So it’s about delaying,
um, how quickly people get it.
I guess the good thing is that
for most of us the symptoms are minimal.
A lot of people don’t even know
they have a symptom
or they just have a cough and a fever.
But obviously for some people,
it’s a lot more,
particularly older people.
In terms of what you can do
to avoid the spread,
it’s all about hand washing.
So the way that this virus spreads
is through droplets
and it’s either through your eyes,
your nose or your mouth.
That’s why
we stopped things like handshaking.
If the league decides to stop
for X number of weeks, what do we do?
While there’s no cases here
it’s possible to train,
but looking at what’s happening
at other clubs,
four clubs now have been affected.
Um, one person entering here
with Coronavirus would probably have
the building shut down very quickly.
With several leagues
around Europe being postponed,
staff and players are wondering
what’s going to happen in England.
I think,
there’s so many different options.
I think that they would
have to try and finish the season.
But I think, maybe they suspend it,
for like, no games for, what? Four weeks?
Something like this.
And then, the season is extended.
Apparently, Serie A is getting cancelled,
until April.
I don’t know if they’ll decide
to scrap the season.
Really?
Imagine though this season, in the UK
Yeah. Liverpool fans
would be gutted, mate.
While the players are left guessing,
Tottenham’s Head of Recruitment,
Steve Hitchen, has news.
OK, so UEFA will make an announcement
at 10 a.m. to say everything is cancelled.
So, all Champions League,
Europa League, is cancelled.
All European fixtures are cancelled.
Then there’s a meeting at 10.30,
Bex’s perception
from the discussion she’s had,
Sheffield United will be the next game.
So it stops until Sheffield United.
And then when you play
United and West Ham?
We don’t know. We don’t know.
We need to know what to do
in relation to to training.
Today is is Friday, it’s easy to say
Saturday and Sunday goodbye.
But then, one week two weeks,
three weeks, what do we do?
During training,
the team receive official confirmation
that the Premier League will be suspended
for at least three weeks.
We have to train.
Some of the boys they think probably
they can go on a holiday.
The problem is that
they cannot go on a holiday anywhere.
My position as as a Head Coach
is a very difficult position.
- You alright?
- How are you?
How’s things, okay?
Everything under control?
As it can be.
The world’s in a crazy place.
But I would say that
is much, much, much, much easier
than his position in this moment, I think.
It’s the unknown for the clubs.
They would never be prepared for
something like for like this.
The same way we struggle to cope with
when are we going to play again.
I think for the clubs,
it has to be even harder.
The question marks, the doubts,
the decisions, the economical impacts
of not playing football,
the possible impact of empty stadiums
when we come back to football,
I think is so, so, so difficult for them.
All the fixtures are going to change,
aren’t they?
This is just Premier League matches?
The problem is, within the 20 clubs,
there’s so many disagreements.
Some clubs want the season null and void,
some clubs just want to play the games,
they don’t care whether
it’s behind closed doors.
We clearly care if
it’s behind closed doors.
Why are you so anti behind closed doors?
I think two reasons.
Playing at home gives you
a competitive advantage,
in terms of, that’s why everyone
always wants to be at home.
Okay, so that’s impact
on performance is one.
And then the second reason is
obviously the financial impact.
It feels like the whole world’s changed
since, uh, a couple of weeks ago.
It’s incredible. You know,
the fact we’re talking about lockdowns,
economic activity just stopping.
No-one is immune. It affects everybody.
Scary. Very scary.
All we’re thinking about at the moment is,
how do we protect
all our staff and their families?
And also the local community
because everyone is affected.
As far as fans are concerned, you know,
there’s five home games left
and they’ve paid their money
for those games
and at the moment
we can’t deliver them.
They’re asking what’s gonna happen.
And the answer is,
we don’t know what’s gonna happen
and we’re having just to pray
and buy some time
and hopefully time
will deal with the problem.
The World Health Organisation says Europe
is now the epicentre of the outbreak.
It’s now killed 5,000 worldwide.
Coronavirus has led to the cancellation
of all British elite football
until April the 3rd.
My generation has never lived through
something like this.
It’s impossible to gauge
what the situation is gonna be
in three weeks time.
From the player’s point of view,
all you can do is keep fit,
you can’t switch off.
You've gotta be ready at any moment.
- Do we train as normal?
- What?
Do we train as normal?
I don’t know, my friend.
I don’t know what’s happening.
Despite a weekend without football,
the squad will continue to train
to stay fit for the upcoming match
against Sheffield United.
And there is a boost for the squad.
Heung-min Son is returning
after two weeks of
precautionary quarantine,
following surgery
in his native South Korea.
Is this Son’s? Sonny’s?
Yeah. We need to clean it.
He’s the safest one.
Exactly. He’s the only one
that we know hasn’t got it.
Four weeks ago, Sonny fractured his elbow
against Aston Villa.
And a worrying moment
inside the opening 60 seconds of the game.
Well, with no Harry Kane currently,
Son’s form has been absolutely pivotal
in Spurs picking up results.
Despite the injury, Sonny played on
and scored the winning goal.
And Son has placed in the winner!
Son has done it late, three-two!
Sonny!
Welcome back my friend, we missed you.
This is still a little bit stiff.
Lift this one up,
so I can compare the two.
Oh, it’s a lot better.
Because when I first saw it,
it was like this.
Yeah. Have you got some strength
to push up? Good.
For me,
it’s important to go outside
and feel the grass, feel the balls.
You will today.
You’ll do the session with H.
When you go outside, you need to
obviously wear your the brace. OK?
We want it yeah,
that’s how high we want it.
Oh, Jesus Christ!
Sonny, you look RoboCop, man.
Where is the gun?
With at least three weeks
until their next fixture,
José plans to use the time
to get his top goal scorers fully fit.
No Harry Kane. No no Sonny.
That was a problem.
Yes.
Great take.
In one month or so,
Harry Kane is going to be back.
Sonny is going to be back.
One touch, push, finish.
When we come back to football,
we are going to have very,
very good attacking players.
Good afternoon, everybody.
I wanted to bring everyone up to date
with the the decisions
that we’ve just taken in Cobra.
Now is the time for everyone to stop
non-essential contact with others.
Obviously, logically, it was right
that we should extend that advice
to mass gatherings as well.
We need people to start working from home
where they possibly can.
I’m sure you’ve all been
watching the news and seeing
the development over the last 24 hours,
it’s very likely we’re gonna have
to take some pretty drastic measures
about what we do.
Already, the first team
is completely shut off now
from the rest of the training ground.
On Thursday, there is a meeting
for the Premier League.
At the moment, obviously, we’re preparing
for a game on the 4th of April,
um, but that’s very likely
to change on Thursday.
Premier League can say
we play on the 3rd of April.
We play on the 3rd of May
or we play on the 3rd October, you know?
So, Thursday afternoon is when we have
something more something more.
Yeah. Once we break up,
you’re not on holiday.
It’s, um,
no matter which country you’re from,
you’ll be in a state of lockdown
more than likely.
OK.
Do you think we play
in the end of May? Like, May?
Because, I mean,
the UK is behind Europe.
Everything is so complex, you know.
Who knows?
So, it’s complicated. I don’t know.
I don’t know.
What does the country
going on lockdown mean?
Well like in France at the moment,
it’s like you basically
you can’t go out except if you go out
and get food or get to a pharmacy.
I have to stay another two weeks at home?
We can’t control that Sonny.
It’s the government’s initiative.
This is not a one week,
a two week, a three-week thing.
This is a three, a four,
a five, a ten-month thing.
Football, to a certain extent,
you could say
we live in a bubble.
We have lots of superstars
that are perhaps a little bit isolated,
they’re very privileged.
What’s happened in Germany,
what’s happened in Italy,
it’s coming here.
I think now they’re beginning to realise.
It’s boring without sport.
Right now, I’m like, I have nothing
else to do. I just sit at home and
- Watch a film or something?
- Yeah.
If we have three weeks,
what am I gonna do?
I bought a PlayStation.
Just in time.
On the weekend,
the worse thing, you look at your phone
to see nothing’s happening.
The thing that scares me,
- more, is my mental side.
- Yeah, yes. Yes.
I’m not afraid to get it.
I’m just afraid if somebody tells me,
"You cannot leave the house"
- Four months.
- Four months, no. Two days.
Somebody tell me I cannot leave
the house for two days
Yeah.
Our top news story today,
schools across the UK will shut tomorrow
as the government introduces new measures
to limit the spread of Coronavirus.
In sport, the Premier League
will today discuss what to do
with their suspended season.
There are nine games to go.
Our web is down 36 percent.
But retail’s only down 25 percent
While the country
braces itself for lockdown,
the club must prepare for the unknown.
We don't know whether we’re gonna be
away from the training ground for a week,
a month,
or much longer than that.
If they go home, and we tell them,
"Two or three weeks at home."
Then they’ve lost it, yeah.
- They lose everything.
- Yeah, yeah.
It's a disaster!
They'll have to stay in their home.
That is the first thing
that has to be clear in their heads.
Can we send them home with their own
individual training programme?
Where? In the garden? We can.
And we are prepared for that.
- That is nothing.
- Hm. Yeah.
That is nothing.
Maybe we need to fill up the van
and drop off bikes at people’s houses,
some exercise bands, things
for those that don’t have gyms.
But it is the individual facility
and it is what it is.
They can't run.
Fitness, like high level and performance
can drop very quickly.
Within a week,
you can actually lose quite a lot.
They’ll be able to kind of work
on the bike, maintain some level
of cardiovascular fitness,
but with footballers it’s running,
a load through the joints
and a load through the tendons is
is so important.
Lucas, how are you coping,
how are the players coping?
Yes, it’s a different moment for everyone
and difficult moment for the world.
I am worried about my parents because
for the old people it’s is worse.
So, we think about them.
It’s a difficult time right now,
we don’t know whether
it’s best we’re here, we're not anywhere.
But it’s always good when you come in
and get to see, see the guys,
but, um, I’m I don’t know how things
will develop in the next few weeks or so.
We have to wait and see.
While Daniel Levy waits for an update
from the Premier League,
the players request a meeting to discuss
whether they should be sent home.
It’s sleepless nights
'cause I feel I have a responsibility
to staff and all their families.
Nothing worse than uncertainty.
That’s where we are at.
Going to the Premier League meeting
and see where we get to
The biggest thing is obviously trying
to give some clarity to the players.
It’s difficult because
we don’t know
and we’re in a very unsettled situation,
but hopefully, by the close
of the meeting we’ll at least,
you know, have some form of programme,
um, even if it does have to
subsequently change.
We know the game’s
not gonna be the full break for all
because the way it’s going,
it’s gonna be impossible.
But people are at the stage
where players are uncomfortable coming in
in case someone picks it up
and gives it to their families,
it has a knock-on effect.
Of course,
we don’t wanna risk your health,
but there’s lots of parts of your health
we need to think about,
in a short space of time
you will be in your homes
and you’ll wish
you could come in here.
What we wanted to do
is keep your mental health good
physical health good
in preparation for the time
that you will be, um, stuck in your homes.
We are very, very close to that time.
At first. I think people thought,
"OK, we won’t be here,
we’ll get two weeks holiday,
to do what we want."
People are starting
to see that’s not the case.
If we’re not here,
you’re at home or you’re isolating.
Just want to reassure you,
we are looking at absolutely everything.
The one thing that’s in nobody’s grasp
at the moment is the timetable.
- Yeah, OK.
- OK.
- So, as soon as we have an update
- Thank you.
After Daniel’s conference call
with the Premier League,
the club has made a decision.
We’ve told them that
from tomorrow they need to be at home.
They need to do training from home,
can’t do it as a team here,
um, and we’ll clearly be in touch
in the next two or three weeks
with the intention that hopefully,
we may be able
to resume playing football in in May.
But we don’t know.
Our head office opposite the stadium,
you know, literally is closed.
Shop's closed.
Tours stopped. You know,
we’re really we are on shutdown.
Another 54 patients who tested positive
for the virus have died in the UK,
bringing the total so far to 335.
We’ve obviously got a lot of food
left over in the stadium
for upcoming match days
that that won’t be going ahead.
Um, so we’ve come up with the idea to work
with a charity called The Felix Project,
to collect some of the fresh fruit
and vegetables, etc,
because food poverty is an issue
in the area and at a time like this,
um, it’s potentially gonna be
even more prevalent.
From this evening,
I must give the British people
a very simple instruction.
You must stay at home.
With football suspended indefinitely,
the club offers use of the stadium and
its car park to the local NHS hospital.
When you come here, midwife,
bloods, scan, is here.
- This is Mr. Levy, he’s the chairman.
- Hello. Hi.
Thank you for all your help.
It’s really a tough time
for everybody at the hospital.
We’ve all had to pull together
and it is, we are in this together.
It’s difficult to focus on, on football.
We dream about our world back.
But at the same time,
we don't lose our competitive nature.
Far as you can go.
Lift back through.
We don’t know when
we are going to play football again.
We don't know in which circumstances
we are going to play football again.
One, two, three
Yes.
Of course, we miss our football,
we miss training, we miss each other,
but this is a way, at least every morning,
to be together and to try to be ready
for what next.
The Premier League has got to
exhaust all other options
before it calls the league off.
But, I wouldn’t be shocked
if that’s where we end up.
If this season wasn’t to get completed
and if that meant that the football clubs
wouldn’t get the remaining TV monies,
and if the Premier League clubs
end up in financial difficulty,
it’s gonna have grave
it’s bad enough anyway,
but it’s going to have
grave consequences throughout football.
We have to find a way, somehow,
to get this season completed.
Breaking news.
The Premier League
will be returning on the 17th of June.
Yes, wow, football is back.
If I’m brutally honest,
I didn’t think it would happen.
Morning.
It’s a pretty strange situation here,
there's a lot of rules
come in to place to try and keep
all the players
and staff safe at the moment.
I’m very, very excited
for the return of football.
I think the big thing is,
it’s been a really good chance
to kind of hit that reset button at Spurs.
No fever? No cough symptoms?
OK. You’re gonna have to
do this probably twice a week now.
Spurs’ quest for a top four finish
will resume in three weeks.
They'll play Manchester United
who sit three places above them
in the league.
We’ve got Sissoko back.
The fact that we’ve got Sonny back.
The fact that we’ve got Kane back.
We’ve got Bergy back,
it wouldn’t surprise me, at all, if
we went on a run and won all nine games.
José Mourinho wins football matches,
that’s what he does.
My feeling is that
we are building something really strong,
that even the Coronavirus crisis
and the distance
didn’t manage to break it.
We are going to be back stronger.
Personally,
I haven’t played for nearly six months
so it’s pretty nice
to to have a date, so.
I guess we’re as prepared as we can be,
but once you start playing games
there’s no training
to cope with that, you’ve gotta
take it in your stride.
And speak with Ben.
We have nine games to go,
first game against United, uh,
it must be three points.
Textbook that is.
After two months of lockdown,
each player is having
a full medical assessment
so the staff can understand
their physical condition.
Three, two, one.
Pull, pull, pull
and relax.
The club’s the coach's
philosophy was that this isn’t a break.
None of them felt like
they had eased up at all.
If anything,
some of them were doing more
because they were killing time.
Three, two, one, yep.
Good. Hold.
- I built a vegetable garden, Hannah.
- Did you? Good.
Early on understood that I’m going to need
a routine for this to work out.
I water my vegetable garden
in the morning, breakfast,
go for a walk with my dogs.
Then we got our zoom session.
Afternoons, get out
and do my gardening work, dinner.
Stay very still there.
One of the skills
I’ve learnt in this quarantine,
I’ve learnt to cook a lot of dishes,
Nando’s style chicken,
a prawn salad.
I made beans
for the first time the other day.
- You made what?
- Baked beans.
I didn’t realise how easy it was.
- Easy. You just put it in a pan.
- In the microwave.
- Or a microwave, yeah.
- Microwave I did. Two minutes.
Spurs have nine games left to play,
they're chasing a Champions League spot,
which may go down to fifth place
as Manchester City
are facing a potential ban
for allegedly breaching
the financial fair play rules.
But they haven’t won in six games
and sit in eighth position.
Turn it on. Let’s get started.
Yeah, we’re on.
Brilliant. OK.
- It's working.
- Yeah?
Excellent.
Everyone should be able to hear me.
Good afternoon,
welcome to this virtual press conference.
So, before lockdown, it was pretty well
documented that the team are struggling
and there were lots of injuries.
There was a mood of,
I’m going to say, negativity.
Do you feel that you’ve got
a second chance now to save the season,
and to get what you want from the season?
Is this a second chance?
It’s a second chance,
but we are not going to start
with the same number of points
as our opponents.
For me,
after more than two decades in football,
it's hard for me to say that something
is new for me, but this is new for me.
The reality is that
we are now in a better position
in relation to our options,
in this moment we have players available
and for myself, it is easier
to choose my team to play
than it was before the lockdown.
Now you have all those players back,
how do you assess Friday
and going into the battle
for the top four?
Let’s focus on one match at a time
and tomorrow is Manchester United
and the points are there to fight for
and that’s what we are going to do.
Thank you. Thank you.
We still have 25 percent
of the season still to play,
but unfortunately
it’s going to be behind closed doors,
so we don’t have the home advantage.
Playing in an empty stadium will not be
the only new experience for the players.
The club have decided to move the team
into the larger NFL changing rooms,
so COVID protocols can be followed.
We’ve got difficult opposition,
it’s teams where they are competing
with us for a Champions League spot.
So am I optimistic? Look, I’m pleased
that we are going to finish the season,
but who knows? You never know in football.
This period of the summer
will now be filled with what will be,
essentially, this mini football tournament
in the Premier League.
I find that so exciting.
The wait is almost over, it all starts
with Aston Villa against Sheffield United.
After a gap of a hundred days,
the top-flight returns
for the longest season
in the history of English football.
The eyes of the world are watching.
The Premier League is back.
Tottenham have also joined
all the other Premier League clubs
in backing the Black Lives Matter movement
and are taking a knee in support.
Left on the floor.
- Thank you.
- OK, just a couple more.
It’s not easy to play without the fans,
but we need to adapt, no?
Since I am on the first team,
I have never played without the fans.
Yeah, it's difficult.
If you make a mistake, the Gaffer
Sometimes when we make a mistake
and we are far from the Gaffer,
and, "Hey!" and we don’t look.
Don’t look at him. But now
- No choice.
- Yeah, no choice.
I don’t know how they are going
to react playing behind closed doors
without a crowd,
without the noise, without the emotions.
Without the pressure, I don’t know how
we are going to react,
but of course,
I try to prepare them
and I try to prepare myself.
So, if you watch yesterday’s
Premier League matches on television
and you hear the sound,
the sound is not in the stadium, OK?
There is no sound.
You have just the music going in
and after that is silence.
No public.
If somebody can motivate or push,
it’s from us on the bench
and from you on the pitch
and I think you have to prepare yourself.
OK? Here we go.
Four points between them,
if Tottenham win it,
they're within a point
of Manchester United.
It’s his former employer,
he'll want to win,
he'll want Spurs to really
go back with a bang in the Premier League.
It will be weird for the players
not having any fans there.
It will be weird for us watching it
with seemingly no atmosphere.
We’re buzzing now, we’re what?
Ten minutes away from kick off.
Let’s hope we win.
They’ve been flying high, the break
would have been bad for them, good for us.
Make it count, lads.
- Lets go, guys.
- Come on, guys.
This image of players kneeling
at kick off, will live long in the memory.
The Black Lives Matter movement adorns
the back of the players' shirts too,
a sign of unity before going
head to head on the pitch.
Can Spurs squeeze
into the Champions League?
There is Paul Pogba,
amongst the substitutes today.
Spurs, prior to the lockdown,
hadn’t won in six games
in all competitions.
Come on, wake up, wake up,
potential with short.
On by Shaw, that will work out
favourably here for Berwijn.
Bergwijn all the way,
what a brilliant goal!
No Spurs fans here to see it,
but thousands around the world
absolutely love that.
Now Berjwijn has options in the middle,
he went it alone last time.
This time he finds Son.
Brilliant header
and it's matched
by the save from David De Gea.
Good half, boys.
Once we get through it,
we just keep it.
If we keep two passes, we are fucking it.
OK, here we go.
Bruno Fernandes, of course,
is trying to play in the in the holes.
We need always to be in control
and also with the wingers in position
to close all the spaces.
I think, for sure, sooner or later,
Pogba is coming
and every time Pogba
has the ball, he will have the vision.
He will have the quality of pass,
so I can imagine Pogba
from a position like that
to get the ball and to make
a beautiful pass here for Rashford to go.
So, Pogba will improve
the quality of passing,
so, we need to press him,
and we need to control
what is far from him,
what is far from him.
They want to press all the time,
you need to measure the risk,
don’t make mistakes,
don’t attract the pressure.
Don’t attract the pressure.
One thing is to play short.
One pass, another pass and then we go.
Another thing is,
pass here, pass here, pass there,
you are attracting the pressure.
There is a lot of space to counterattack
and to kill them.
And we talk, we talk.
Don’t let Pogba shoot.
If he approaches the box,
press the ball. He shoots.
Come on boys, hey?
Come on, let’s keep going.
There is Paul Pogba.
Attention, Moussa. Attention.
Eric Dier! Position.
Fernandes
Oh, what a ball.
Martial, and it was
a vital intervention there from Dier.
He’s been really solid at centre back.
Pressure from United continues
and Hugo Lloris has produced
the save of the game.
Come on, come on.
Pogba tries to take on Dier,
he may have got the better of him.
Oh, it’s a penalty.
The decision goes against Eric Dier,
they look shoulder to shoulder.
Come, come, wake up.
Was that a foul? No, says the referee,
Rashford will play on.
And there’s a challenge by Dier
on Fernandes.
Oh, it’s another penalty
and Manchester United,
in the last minute of the ninety,
have been presented a chance
to win the game.
They can check the VAR, no?
- Hey, it was a foul just there.
- I've got to check it.
Let’s have a look here.
Oh, I don’t think that’s a penalty.
No penalty.
The decision has been overturned.
Fuck, man.
Argh, fucking hell.
Unlucky guys, hey.
Come on, come on,
eight matches to go, come on.
Come on.
We don’t win football matches
with nice guys
and you have to go to
the competition with that spirit.
Hugo Lloris was left
very exposed there
and it looks like he’s taking
his frustrations out on Heung-min Son.
Missing shit passes.
Fucking slow.
Fucking pass to the opponent.
It's sloppy.
North London is ours!
Doesn’t matter about the league,
we want to beat them,
finish above them.
We need to win for the fans,
for ourselves,
it’s a game that’s
more than just three points.
Since the moment I arrive,
I can only say, what happened to us
this season is impossible.
Impossible.
We knew twelve points
to the top four, really, really hard,
we knew that the distance was too big.
We managed to short
that distance to one point.
Ach No Harry Kane.
When you try to adapt
without that special player,
you find a balance.
You lose another one.
So, you lose the solution
that you found to resolve a problem.
Without injuries, we would be now
third or fourth.
We would be
in quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
We have now the Coronavirus situation.
But we have to try to be professionals.
Such a difficult challenge
that come for me
in the right moment of my career.
Because if it comes early,
maybe I will be not prepared
to cope with this situation.
It’s really hard.
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!
Fist bumps only, boys.
- Roberto right now it’s
- Oh no. No, it’s this in Italy.
It’s just a risk for Coronavirus, yeah.
I don’t know,
pretty soon maybe it'll be heads.
I’m just in favour of fist bumps
in general, you know?
To be honest, um, Coronavirus
isn’t the only thing that you can catch,
say in the morning you shake 40 hands,
how many of those people
have been to the toilet
and not washed their hands?
I always wash my hands
before I eat as a rule.
- Hey!
- You alright?
Four months ago,
José Mourinho was appointed mid-season,
his mission is for Tottenham Hotspur
to qualify for next year’s
lucrative Champions League
and win a long-awaited trophy.
Are we allowed to shake hands?
Oh, elbows alright?
After being knocked out of the FA Cup,
José is now competing on just two fronts,
the Premier League and making it to
quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Let’s go.
Burnley are up there
for the chance of top four, top five.
Do you have to prioritise?
Or do you have to go still for
the top four and Champions League?
Of course we want to to win
the match tomorrow.
Of course,
we want to to win the tie, Tuesday.
We have decisions to to make
because players available
especially for some positions
are not much.
José, it’s a difficult run of games,
you’ve lost your last three,
four if you include Norwich,
which is as bad as it’s ever been
in your career as manager.
Our squad is good.
In this moment, we are in trouble.
It’s so simple as that.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, guys.
Yeah, this is my spot, sort of there.
Yeah, that’s where you feel it, there.
It’s a very difficult season but
the most important is we’re still alive.
We are still alive
in Champions League for
in the league for the top four.
This is how we think.
To finish well the second part
of the season, to give everything
and to get back stronger.
It’s more tiredness
than anything else.
Maybe you’re altering the way
you’re running.
As players,
we wanna win every game but
you know, sometimes things don’t go
for you the way you would like it to.
It’s frustrating and draining, but
I feel like it’s not gonna be
long until we turn it around
and we know what we’ve gotta do.
After playing extra time
in their last game,
Tottenham now face
a tough trip to Burnley.
Mich, have you given Steven the heads up
about Burnley, what to expect?
Do you do you have
a team like that in Holland?
The thing is in Holland every team
every team tries to play football.
Like the physical side,
no team comes close.
We used to say, "Yeah,
but can they do it at Stoke
on a cold Tuesday night?"
It's now Burnley.
To keep their top four hopes alive,
Spurs need to take points from
their next three Premier League games.
This week,
they will also travel to Germany
for a must-win knock-out match
in the Champions League.
José has to work out how to get
the most out of his depleted squad.
Hey, José.
There’s a couple we need to watch today,
Dele, just left hamstring tightness,
Lo Celso, some adductor fatigue
and Lucas, just general fatigue.
Ben Davies, um, we think
he probably had a small hamstring strain.
So he cannot play Sunday? Saturday?
It will be difficult
for him to play, yeah. Yeah.
If players in your position are injured,
then you’re required to play more
frequently with kind of very little rest.
Premier League is it’s very intense.
Lo Celso has come in and, you know,
initially not played in every game but,
um, for the last few months
he’s played very regularly.
You can count on me.
I know I can, but
let’s see if we hang on in there.
You get on 30 minutes before the end.
You and Lucas go on together,
and then fresh for Tuesday.
- Everything’s done?
- You've got everything, yeah?
Yeah.
Let’s look at Burnley first of all,
they’re unbeaten in the league since Jan.
And they’re second
in the form table behind Liverpool.
We’ve lost four in a row.
You know it’s very early days
in José’s tenure,
but could this be
the beginning of the end for José?
It seems that he’s already given up on
this season, that’s the frustrating thing.
Ready to fight, eh?
We are better players, better team.
Come on. Let's go.
Get back on the winning way guys, huh?
Hey, come on!
No handshakes between
the two sets of players
has been seen across
the Premier League this weekend
due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
Spurs currently
without Kane, Sissoko and Foyth.
Son of course who's had surgery
on that broken arm.
Right in on the goalkeeper here
and is it over the line?
Not quite.
Spurs start slowly,
and Burnley dominate the first half.
What to do at half time?
That’s the question for José Mourinho.
Don't give up.
We need to win duels.
We need to recover the ball.
We cannot make defensive mistakes.
Yeah, a kind of spirit when you feel
and it looks like everything goes against.
Come on, let’s go.
In an effort to change the game,
José makes two half time substitutions.
Bringing on Lucas Moura
and Giovani Lo Celso.
We need to attack, we need to win,
we need to score, we need to go.
Press them higher.
We need to push the defensive line up.
OK? And keep the spirit.
The spirit, the spirit, the spirit.
And we keep going again,
going again,
in five minutes you win the game.
But you start from minute one,
you keep going.
With regular penalty takers Harry Kane
and Heung-min Son injured,
Dele steps up.
José, it was a greatly improved
performance second half.
- Yeah.
- You must be pleased
- with the reaction you got.
- I am.
My team was fantastic
in the second half.
We took risks.
We played, we build, we create.
We had Lo Celso,
that wanted the ball all the time.
We had Lo Celso always
with a fantastic selection of
of passes.
Great trickery here from Lo Celso and
he was clearly fouled there by Hendrick.
He was fantastic with the ball.
They couldn’t stop him.
And today I just love the mentality
of my team in in the second half of it.
Despite putting pressure on Burnley,
Spurs are unable to find a winning goal.
Dele’s equaliser from the penalty spot
puts an end to their run of losses.
But in the 92nd minute,
they’re dealt yet another injury blow.
There’s a foul on Bergwijn.
José, how’s Steven Bergwijn?
He seemed to be limping off
towards the end.
Yeah.
He’s injured but let’s see.
Let’s see if it’s something minor
and if he can makes
Because Tuesday I want only two options.
We win,
or we lose but we leave everything there.
Tired, not tired. Injured, not injured.
We go Tuesday there
with with everything.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
The draw means Spurs drop
to eighth in the table,
but are still in the running
for the top four.
What we did yesterday,
bringing two players from the bench
that changed that shit.
What I said, when I arrived here,
about Lo Celso,
"I don’t believe that he can do it."
He looked a shy kid.
And then, little by little,
the guy changed my mind
and I started giving him opportunities.
And the guy transformed himself
into what he is today.
At the beginning, with the arrival of
the coach, I didn't get to play,
but anyway, I knew
I had to train harder and show
what I could do on the pitch. And well
it’s difficult.
This year, in fact, we’ve suffered
from injuries to some important players.
Both Harry and Sonny.
They score many goals
and they’re very decisive.
When you’ve been doing the job you love
and it’s taken away for a while,
you have that itchy feeling,
I need to get back out there.
And I’m someone who finds it harder
to watch than to play,
because it’s not in your control.
We have difficult games ahead of us
and the Champions League round,
so we have to be good to overcome it all.
From a personal point of view,
it’s massive because I wanna be playing
Champions League when I'm back fit.
I went high speed running yesterday,
first time.
- What percentage did you get to?
- Seventy percent.
Just time now. It's just time.
Boys, good luck tomorrow.
New signing Steven Bergwijn
is out for the rest of the season.
José now has limited attacking options
as he takes his team to Leipzig.
OK.
This is normally their team, their system.
We go with Lucas,
with Dele,
and with Lamela.
You all play in the same area, OK?
You press them really high because
it’s exactly the same as,
as Wolves, for example.
We want to press high
and we have to be aggressive to go.
The two midfield players
are going with the pressure.
Are not going to stay in here worried
with what is going behind you.
Go. Everybody’s going.
Go quicker, Serge.
Go quicker, Lucas.
Go quicker, Dele.
And go.
And go.
This is what we have to do.
Very aggressive.
Come on, let’s go.
Five people in the UK have now died
after testing positive for Coronavirus
with 319 cases confirmed
We have a very significant disease,
an epidemic that
has the potential to be a pandemic.
So that means that sport,
where huge amounts of people gather,
has to go behind closed doors.
That’s what it means. End of discussion.
Oh, I left it upstairs.
I’ll have a look on
my phone in a minute. I’ll just
Chairman Daniel Levy,
and members of the Board
have travelled with the team to Leipzig.
They are meeting before the match
to discuss the club’s
annual financial statement.
The problem is we’re issuing
this statement against a background
where we’re not doing as well as
we’d like to be doing on the pitch.
Whereas we shouldn’t be positive
in terms of what we achieved last year,
it feels like it’s all forgotten,
which is a little bit understandable.
We need to put it into context.
The stadium opening
has got to be something we draw out.
- Yeah.
- I think getting
to the Champions League final,
regardless where we are today,
is an incredible achievement.
The profit for the year to June 19 was,
based on this number,
147 million, right?
The profit for the year to June 20
is likely to be lower than that, isn’t it?
- It will definitely be.
- OK.
Unless we get to Champions League final.
And clearly, if we finish
in a lower league position
- And the loss of the the TV and media.
- Yeah.
I think we need to look at
see what it looks like
and decide whether
we should put a bit of a warning
that this year’s number’s
not gonna be as good as last year’s.
And that puts into context the profit
that we’re going to be announcing.
I mean we have spent in the last 12 months
circa 140 million pounds
of net investment in the team,
which everyone seems to completely forget.
The Board are also reviewing
the recent Coronavirus outbreak
and how it might impact
the rest of the season.
If games were to be behind closed doors
Our business interruption insurance
didn’t anticipate a virus shutting it down
and anticipated us going
and hiring another stadium
and playing somewhere else.
I think they won’t make us play
behind closed doors,
in isolation, of not shutting down
public transport, schools, work, etc.
But anything can change.
We’ve got five home games left,
haven’t we?
Ignoring if we get through tonight?
- Yeah.
- Hm.
It’s season defining for Tottenham,
Champions League,
last 16 tie, second leg
against RB Leipzig.
Can we overturn the one-nil defeat
and get ourselves through
to the quarter-finals?
Tottenham, Tottenham, Tottenham,
Tottenham, Tottenham.
Tottenham, Tottenham
If we start well, I think we could win it.
We’ve had injuries,
but look where we are in the league.
We’re not that far off top four.
Yes, I know we’re a little bit behind
but we’re not that far off top four.
He is "The Chosen One."
He has done some amazing things
with clubs previously.
Can he do the same here?
You know, you never know.
He may need a bit more time.
I won trophies in every club,
so, I bring the expectation
to a certain level,
that with other people
there is no expectation. It’s my fault.
And if nobody
puts that pressure on myself,
I’m the first one to, to do it.
I want to live with that pressure.
But for lots of players in this club,
it’s probably something new for them,
and they have to learn
how to cope with it.
Don’t be naive. And doesn’t matter
what happen, we need to score two goals.
And remember believe,
because we’re gonna win this game, guys!
- Come on!
- Come on!
José Mourinho, you are manager
you have your responsibility,
but the responsibility
has to be shared with the players.
It’s about confidence.
When you start to get a few bad results.
You start to think too much,
but until the end, you give your best.
These are extraordinary times.
Many games across Europe,
including some of the Champions League,
are being played behind closed doors
this week due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
But Leipzig confirmed yesterday this game
would go ahead with a crowd,
for this Champions League
round of 16 second leg.
You can feel the magnitude
of the occasion.
José Mourinho
prowling the technical area,
it’s all about trying
to turn this tie around.
Lucas Moura, tonight.
This is his 39th game of the season.
Options waiting for it in white and red,
including Timo Werner
who thumps it against a Spurs defender.
The task just got tougher
for Tottenham Hotspur.
Lo Celso
I’m not entirely sure how
Giovani Lo Celso’s got through that gap.
Spurs need bodies in the middle here
for an Aurier cross.
It’s a low one, it’s a good one.
Oh, it’s a great goal.
And José Mourinho
needs an Amsterdam-style miracle
to see Spurs turn this around.
Half time.
Leipzig lead three-nil on aggregate.
We made mistakes.
We are not going even to speak about
the mistakes because we know the mistakes
that we made.
We are going to speak about,
we are losing three-nil.
We are losing three-nil
and we need three goals to win.
Three goals, in 45 minutes, in football,
is difficult, is possible.
And, if we don’t change the result,
if we don’t score three goals,
we die, but we die fucking fighting.
Not like scared kids, we have to go out,
like guys that give everything
until the last second.
Go with everything.
We need strong mentality.
Let’s go, hey.
Big balls, hey!
Come on, let’s go!
You arrive in in clubs
in different stages of the club,
of the squads, of the players.
We are in the moment of transition,
clearly, the moment of transition.
It’s all about qualifying for
the Champions League
via the Premier League now
for the remainder
of the season for Mourinho.
I want to try to transform
the mentality in the dressing room
and that is something that
normally comes with with time.
It’s not click of the fingers
that you manage to do that.
A statement from Arsenal
has recently been released
saying that their manager Mikel Arteta
has tested positive for Coronavirus.
All around Europe, all around the world,
sport is being suspended.
The MLS has shut down,
the NBA being called off,
Serie A is off,
La Liga is shutting down for two weeks.
We’ve also had a statement
from the Premier League.
They’re saying
they will have an emergency meeting
to discuss future fixtures.
No more information at this stage,
but this could throw
a spanner in the works
with the Premier League’s plans
to have fixtures this weekend.
It seems like
minute by minute now, this story
continues to grow bigger and bigger.
Spurs are due to play their next match
against Manchester United
in two days' time.
Hudson-Odoi has it.
Another Chelsea player has it.
You can have it two weeks
before any symptoms.
And Everton played them, so chances are
they probably have it as well.
They just have to cancel the whole league
because too many games
Best way, restart everything.
Imagine, that’s so good.
Champions League football again.
I guess it’s probably just worth talking
a bit about Coronavirus
'cause obviously it’s becoming
absolutely massive thing, um,
and I know a lot of things kind of sound
quite Doomesdayish, but actually
it’s likely that
in the next week or two
it’s gonna get a lot worse,
even than it is now.
A lot of games through Europe are either
postponed or behind closed doors,
so it’s relatively likely
that it will happen here.
Obviously,
it’s an unprecedented situation for us.
We’re watching the news
just looking for government updates
to see what’s happening,
we have to respond to
the information as it comes in.
And we have to
take it day-by-day, looking at
the simple things we can do
to protect ourselves.
Medical meeting.
It’s the doctor, he wants to talk.
For some players,
they’re very clued up on what’s happening,
but for others, they might not
understand the whole situation at all.
And we’re learning all the time as well.
Obviously, we’re here today
to talk a bit about Coronavirus.
Uh, we can’t stop it.
This virus cannot be stopped.
People will still get it.
So it’s about delaying,
um, how quickly people get it.
I guess the good thing is that
for most of us the symptoms are minimal.
A lot of people don’t even know
they have a symptom
or they just have a cough and a fever.
But obviously for some people,
it’s a lot more,
particularly older people.
In terms of what you can do
to avoid the spread,
it’s all about hand washing.
So the way that this virus spreads
is through droplets
and it’s either through your eyes,
your nose or your mouth.
That’s why
we stopped things like handshaking.
If the league decides to stop
for X number of weeks, what do we do?
While there’s no cases here
it’s possible to train,
but looking at what’s happening
at other clubs,
four clubs now have been affected.
Um, one person entering here
with Coronavirus would probably have
the building shut down very quickly.
With several leagues
around Europe being postponed,
staff and players are wondering
what’s going to happen in England.
I think,
there’s so many different options.
I think that they would
have to try and finish the season.
But I think, maybe they suspend it,
for like, no games for, what? Four weeks?
Something like this.
And then, the season is extended.
Apparently, Serie A is getting cancelled,
until April.
I don’t know if they’ll decide
to scrap the season.
Really?
Imagine though this season, in the UK
Yeah. Liverpool fans
would be gutted, mate.
While the players are left guessing,
Tottenham’s Head of Recruitment,
Steve Hitchen, has news.
OK, so UEFA will make an announcement
at 10 a.m. to say everything is cancelled.
So, all Champions League,
Europa League, is cancelled.
All European fixtures are cancelled.
Then there’s a meeting at 10.30,
Bex’s perception
from the discussion she’s had,
Sheffield United will be the next game.
So it stops until Sheffield United.
And then when you play
United and West Ham?
We don’t know. We don’t know.
We need to know what to do
in relation to to training.
Today is is Friday, it’s easy to say
Saturday and Sunday goodbye.
But then, one week two weeks,
three weeks, what do we do?
During training,
the team receive official confirmation
that the Premier League will be suspended
for at least three weeks.
We have to train.
Some of the boys they think probably
they can go on a holiday.
The problem is that
they cannot go on a holiday anywhere.
My position as as a Head Coach
is a very difficult position.
- You alright?
- How are you?
How’s things, okay?
Everything under control?
As it can be.
The world’s in a crazy place.
But I would say that
is much, much, much, much easier
than his position in this moment, I think.
It’s the unknown for the clubs.
They would never be prepared for
something like for like this.
The same way we struggle to cope with
when are we going to play again.
I think for the clubs,
it has to be even harder.
The question marks, the doubts,
the decisions, the economical impacts
of not playing football,
the possible impact of empty stadiums
when we come back to football,
I think is so, so, so difficult for them.
All the fixtures are going to change,
aren’t they?
This is just Premier League matches?
The problem is, within the 20 clubs,
there’s so many disagreements.
Some clubs want the season null and void,
some clubs just want to play the games,
they don’t care whether
it’s behind closed doors.
We clearly care if
it’s behind closed doors.
Why are you so anti behind closed doors?
I think two reasons.
Playing at home gives you
a competitive advantage,
in terms of, that’s why everyone
always wants to be at home.
Okay, so that’s impact
on performance is one.
And then the second reason is
obviously the financial impact.
It feels like the whole world’s changed
since, uh, a couple of weeks ago.
It’s incredible. You know,
the fact we’re talking about lockdowns,
economic activity just stopping.
No-one is immune. It affects everybody.
Scary. Very scary.
All we’re thinking about at the moment is,
how do we protect
all our staff and their families?
And also the local community
because everyone is affected.
As far as fans are concerned, you know,
there’s five home games left
and they’ve paid their money
for those games
and at the moment
we can’t deliver them.
They’re asking what’s gonna happen.
And the answer is,
we don’t know what’s gonna happen
and we’re having just to pray
and buy some time
and hopefully time
will deal with the problem.
The World Health Organisation says Europe
is now the epicentre of the outbreak.
It’s now killed 5,000 worldwide.
Coronavirus has led to the cancellation
of all British elite football
until April the 3rd.
My generation has never lived through
something like this.
It’s impossible to gauge
what the situation is gonna be
in three weeks time.
From the player’s point of view,
all you can do is keep fit,
you can’t switch off.
You've gotta be ready at any moment.
- Do we train as normal?
- What?
Do we train as normal?
I don’t know, my friend.
I don’t know what’s happening.
Despite a weekend without football,
the squad will continue to train
to stay fit for the upcoming match
against Sheffield United.
And there is a boost for the squad.
Heung-min Son is returning
after two weeks of
precautionary quarantine,
following surgery
in his native South Korea.
Is this Son’s? Sonny’s?
Yeah. We need to clean it.
He’s the safest one.
Exactly. He’s the only one
that we know hasn’t got it.
Four weeks ago, Sonny fractured his elbow
against Aston Villa.
And a worrying moment
inside the opening 60 seconds of the game.
Well, with no Harry Kane currently,
Son’s form has been absolutely pivotal
in Spurs picking up results.
Despite the injury, Sonny played on
and scored the winning goal.
And Son has placed in the winner!
Son has done it late, three-two!
Sonny!
Welcome back my friend, we missed you.
This is still a little bit stiff.
Lift this one up,
so I can compare the two.
Oh, it’s a lot better.
Because when I first saw it,
it was like this.
Yeah. Have you got some strength
to push up? Good.
For me,
it’s important to go outside
and feel the grass, feel the balls.
You will today.
You’ll do the session with H.
When you go outside, you need to
obviously wear your the brace. OK?
We want it yeah,
that’s how high we want it.
Oh, Jesus Christ!
Sonny, you look RoboCop, man.
Where is the gun?
With at least three weeks
until their next fixture,
José plans to use the time
to get his top goal scorers fully fit.
No Harry Kane. No no Sonny.
That was a problem.
Yes.
Great take.
In one month or so,
Harry Kane is going to be back.
Sonny is going to be back.
One touch, push, finish.
When we come back to football,
we are going to have very,
very good attacking players.
Good afternoon, everybody.
I wanted to bring everyone up to date
with the the decisions
that we’ve just taken in Cobra.
Now is the time for everyone to stop
non-essential contact with others.
Obviously, logically, it was right
that we should extend that advice
to mass gatherings as well.
We need people to start working from home
where they possibly can.
I’m sure you’ve all been
watching the news and seeing
the development over the last 24 hours,
it’s very likely we’re gonna have
to take some pretty drastic measures
about what we do.
Already, the first team
is completely shut off now
from the rest of the training ground.
On Thursday, there is a meeting
for the Premier League.
At the moment, obviously, we’re preparing
for a game on the 4th of April,
um, but that’s very likely
to change on Thursday.
Premier League can say
we play on the 3rd of April.
We play on the 3rd of May
or we play on the 3rd October, you know?
So, Thursday afternoon is when we have
something more something more.
Yeah. Once we break up,
you’re not on holiday.
It’s, um,
no matter which country you’re from,
you’ll be in a state of lockdown
more than likely.
OK.
Do you think we play
in the end of May? Like, May?
Because, I mean,
the UK is behind Europe.
Everything is so complex, you know.
Who knows?
So, it’s complicated. I don’t know.
I don’t know.
What does the country
going on lockdown mean?
Well like in France at the moment,
it’s like you basically
you can’t go out except if you go out
and get food or get to a pharmacy.
I have to stay another two weeks at home?
We can’t control that Sonny.
It’s the government’s initiative.
This is not a one week,
a two week, a three-week thing.
This is a three, a four,
a five, a ten-month thing.
Football, to a certain extent,
you could say
we live in a bubble.
We have lots of superstars
that are perhaps a little bit isolated,
they’re very privileged.
What’s happened in Germany,
what’s happened in Italy,
it’s coming here.
I think now they’re beginning to realise.
It’s boring without sport.
Right now, I’m like, I have nothing
else to do. I just sit at home and
- Watch a film or something?
- Yeah.
If we have three weeks,
what am I gonna do?
I bought a PlayStation.
Just in time.
On the weekend,
the worse thing, you look at your phone
to see nothing’s happening.
The thing that scares me,
- more, is my mental side.
- Yeah, yes. Yes.
I’m not afraid to get it.
I’m just afraid if somebody tells me,
"You cannot leave the house"
- Four months.
- Four months, no. Two days.
Somebody tell me I cannot leave
the house for two days
Yeah.
Our top news story today,
schools across the UK will shut tomorrow
as the government introduces new measures
to limit the spread of Coronavirus.
In sport, the Premier League
will today discuss what to do
with their suspended season.
There are nine games to go.
Our web is down 36 percent.
But retail’s only down 25 percent
While the country
braces itself for lockdown,
the club must prepare for the unknown.
We don't know whether we’re gonna be
away from the training ground for a week,
a month,
or much longer than that.
If they go home, and we tell them,
"Two or three weeks at home."
Then they’ve lost it, yeah.
- They lose everything.
- Yeah, yeah.
It's a disaster!
They'll have to stay in their home.
That is the first thing
that has to be clear in their heads.
Can we send them home with their own
individual training programme?
Where? In the garden? We can.
And we are prepared for that.
- That is nothing.
- Hm. Yeah.
That is nothing.
Maybe we need to fill up the van
and drop off bikes at people’s houses,
some exercise bands, things
for those that don’t have gyms.
But it is the individual facility
and it is what it is.
They can't run.
Fitness, like high level and performance
can drop very quickly.
Within a week,
you can actually lose quite a lot.
They’ll be able to kind of work
on the bike, maintain some level
of cardiovascular fitness,
but with footballers it’s running,
a load through the joints
and a load through the tendons is
is so important.
Lucas, how are you coping,
how are the players coping?
Yes, it’s a different moment for everyone
and difficult moment for the world.
I am worried about my parents because
for the old people it’s is worse.
So, we think about them.
It’s a difficult time right now,
we don’t know whether
it’s best we’re here, we're not anywhere.
But it’s always good when you come in
and get to see, see the guys,
but, um, I’m I don’t know how things
will develop in the next few weeks or so.
We have to wait and see.
While Daniel Levy waits for an update
from the Premier League,
the players request a meeting to discuss
whether they should be sent home.
It’s sleepless nights
'cause I feel I have a responsibility
to staff and all their families.
Nothing worse than uncertainty.
That’s where we are at.
Going to the Premier League meeting
and see where we get to
The biggest thing is obviously trying
to give some clarity to the players.
It’s difficult because
we don’t know
and we’re in a very unsettled situation,
but hopefully, by the close
of the meeting we’ll at least,
you know, have some form of programme,
um, even if it does have to
subsequently change.
We know the game’s
not gonna be the full break for all
because the way it’s going,
it’s gonna be impossible.
But people are at the stage
where players are uncomfortable coming in
in case someone picks it up
and gives it to their families,
it has a knock-on effect.
Of course,
we don’t wanna risk your health,
but there’s lots of parts of your health
we need to think about,
in a short space of time
you will be in your homes
and you’ll wish
you could come in here.
What we wanted to do
is keep your mental health good
physical health good
in preparation for the time
that you will be, um, stuck in your homes.
We are very, very close to that time.
At first. I think people thought,
"OK, we won’t be here,
we’ll get two weeks holiday,
to do what we want."
People are starting
to see that’s not the case.
If we’re not here,
you’re at home or you’re isolating.
Just want to reassure you,
we are looking at absolutely everything.
The one thing that’s in nobody’s grasp
at the moment is the timetable.
- Yeah, OK.
- OK.
- So, as soon as we have an update
- Thank you.
After Daniel’s conference call
with the Premier League,
the club has made a decision.
We’ve told them that
from tomorrow they need to be at home.
They need to do training from home,
can’t do it as a team here,
um, and we’ll clearly be in touch
in the next two or three weeks
with the intention that hopefully,
we may be able
to resume playing football in in May.
But we don’t know.
Our head office opposite the stadium,
you know, literally is closed.
Shop's closed.
Tours stopped. You know,
we’re really we are on shutdown.
Another 54 patients who tested positive
for the virus have died in the UK,
bringing the total so far to 335.
We’ve obviously got a lot of food
left over in the stadium
for upcoming match days
that that won’t be going ahead.
Um, so we’ve come up with the idea to work
with a charity called The Felix Project,
to collect some of the fresh fruit
and vegetables, etc,
because food poverty is an issue
in the area and at a time like this,
um, it’s potentially gonna be
even more prevalent.
From this evening,
I must give the British people
a very simple instruction.
You must stay at home.
With football suspended indefinitely,
the club offers use of the stadium and
its car park to the local NHS hospital.
When you come here, midwife,
bloods, scan, is here.
- This is Mr. Levy, he’s the chairman.
- Hello. Hi.
Thank you for all your help.
It’s really a tough time
for everybody at the hospital.
We’ve all had to pull together
and it is, we are in this together.
It’s difficult to focus on, on football.
We dream about our world back.
But at the same time,
we don't lose our competitive nature.
Far as you can go.
Lift back through.
We don’t know when
we are going to play football again.
We don't know in which circumstances
we are going to play football again.
One, two, three
Yes.
Of course, we miss our football,
we miss training, we miss each other,
but this is a way, at least every morning,
to be together and to try to be ready
for what next.
The Premier League has got to
exhaust all other options
before it calls the league off.
But, I wouldn’t be shocked
if that’s where we end up.
If this season wasn’t to get completed
and if that meant that the football clubs
wouldn’t get the remaining TV monies,
and if the Premier League clubs
end up in financial difficulty,
it’s gonna have grave
it’s bad enough anyway,
but it’s going to have
grave consequences throughout football.
We have to find a way, somehow,
to get this season completed.
Breaking news.
The Premier League
will be returning on the 17th of June.
Yes, wow, football is back.
If I’m brutally honest,
I didn’t think it would happen.
Morning.
It’s a pretty strange situation here,
there's a lot of rules
come in to place to try and keep
all the players
and staff safe at the moment.
I’m very, very excited
for the return of football.
I think the big thing is,
it’s been a really good chance
to kind of hit that reset button at Spurs.
No fever? No cough symptoms?
OK. You’re gonna have to
do this probably twice a week now.
Spurs’ quest for a top four finish
will resume in three weeks.
They'll play Manchester United
who sit three places above them
in the league.
We’ve got Sissoko back.
The fact that we’ve got Sonny back.
The fact that we’ve got Kane back.
We’ve got Bergy back,
it wouldn’t surprise me, at all, if
we went on a run and won all nine games.
José Mourinho wins football matches,
that’s what he does.
My feeling is that
we are building something really strong,
that even the Coronavirus crisis
and the distance
didn’t manage to break it.
We are going to be back stronger.
Personally,
I haven’t played for nearly six months
so it’s pretty nice
to to have a date, so.
I guess we’re as prepared as we can be,
but once you start playing games
there’s no training
to cope with that, you’ve gotta
take it in your stride.
And speak with Ben.
We have nine games to go,
first game against United, uh,
it must be three points.
Textbook that is.
After two months of lockdown,
each player is having
a full medical assessment
so the staff can understand
their physical condition.
Three, two, one.
Pull, pull, pull
and relax.
The club’s the coach's
philosophy was that this isn’t a break.
None of them felt like
they had eased up at all.
If anything,
some of them were doing more
because they were killing time.
Three, two, one, yep.
Good. Hold.
- I built a vegetable garden, Hannah.
- Did you? Good.
Early on understood that I’m going to need
a routine for this to work out.
I water my vegetable garden
in the morning, breakfast,
go for a walk with my dogs.
Then we got our zoom session.
Afternoons, get out
and do my gardening work, dinner.
Stay very still there.
One of the skills
I’ve learnt in this quarantine,
I’ve learnt to cook a lot of dishes,
Nando’s style chicken,
a prawn salad.
I made beans
for the first time the other day.
- You made what?
- Baked beans.
I didn’t realise how easy it was.
- Easy. You just put it in a pan.
- In the microwave.
- Or a microwave, yeah.
- Microwave I did. Two minutes.
Spurs have nine games left to play,
they're chasing a Champions League spot,
which may go down to fifth place
as Manchester City
are facing a potential ban
for allegedly breaching
the financial fair play rules.
But they haven’t won in six games
and sit in eighth position.
Turn it on. Let’s get started.
Yeah, we’re on.
Brilliant. OK.
- It's working.
- Yeah?
Excellent.
Everyone should be able to hear me.
Good afternoon,
welcome to this virtual press conference.
So, before lockdown, it was pretty well
documented that the team are struggling
and there were lots of injuries.
There was a mood of,
I’m going to say, negativity.
Do you feel that you’ve got
a second chance now to save the season,
and to get what you want from the season?
Is this a second chance?
It’s a second chance,
but we are not going to start
with the same number of points
as our opponents.
For me,
after more than two decades in football,
it's hard for me to say that something
is new for me, but this is new for me.
The reality is that
we are now in a better position
in relation to our options,
in this moment we have players available
and for myself, it is easier
to choose my team to play
than it was before the lockdown.
Now you have all those players back,
how do you assess Friday
and going into the battle
for the top four?
Let’s focus on one match at a time
and tomorrow is Manchester United
and the points are there to fight for
and that’s what we are going to do.
Thank you. Thank you.
We still have 25 percent
of the season still to play,
but unfortunately
it’s going to be behind closed doors,
so we don’t have the home advantage.
Playing in an empty stadium will not be
the only new experience for the players.
The club have decided to move the team
into the larger NFL changing rooms,
so COVID protocols can be followed.
We’ve got difficult opposition,
it’s teams where they are competing
with us for a Champions League spot.
So am I optimistic? Look, I’m pleased
that we are going to finish the season,
but who knows? You never know in football.
This period of the summer
will now be filled with what will be,
essentially, this mini football tournament
in the Premier League.
I find that so exciting.
The wait is almost over, it all starts
with Aston Villa against Sheffield United.
After a gap of a hundred days,
the top-flight returns
for the longest season
in the history of English football.
The eyes of the world are watching.
The Premier League is back.
Tottenham have also joined
all the other Premier League clubs
in backing the Black Lives Matter movement
and are taking a knee in support.
Left on the floor.
- Thank you.
- OK, just a couple more.
It’s not easy to play without the fans,
but we need to adapt, no?
Since I am on the first team,
I have never played without the fans.
Yeah, it's difficult.
If you make a mistake, the Gaffer
Sometimes when we make a mistake
and we are far from the Gaffer,
and, "Hey!" and we don’t look.
Don’t look at him. But now
- No choice.
- Yeah, no choice.
I don’t know how they are going
to react playing behind closed doors
without a crowd,
without the noise, without the emotions.
Without the pressure, I don’t know how
we are going to react,
but of course,
I try to prepare them
and I try to prepare myself.
So, if you watch yesterday’s
Premier League matches on television
and you hear the sound,
the sound is not in the stadium, OK?
There is no sound.
You have just the music going in
and after that is silence.
No public.
If somebody can motivate or push,
it’s from us on the bench
and from you on the pitch
and I think you have to prepare yourself.
OK? Here we go.
Four points between them,
if Tottenham win it,
they're within a point
of Manchester United.
It’s his former employer,
he'll want to win,
he'll want Spurs to really
go back with a bang in the Premier League.
It will be weird for the players
not having any fans there.
It will be weird for us watching it
with seemingly no atmosphere.
We’re buzzing now, we’re what?
Ten minutes away from kick off.
Let’s hope we win.
They’ve been flying high, the break
would have been bad for them, good for us.
Make it count, lads.
- Lets go, guys.
- Come on, guys.
This image of players kneeling
at kick off, will live long in the memory.
The Black Lives Matter movement adorns
the back of the players' shirts too,
a sign of unity before going
head to head on the pitch.
Can Spurs squeeze
into the Champions League?
There is Paul Pogba,
amongst the substitutes today.
Spurs, prior to the lockdown,
hadn’t won in six games
in all competitions.
Come on, wake up, wake up,
potential with short.
On by Shaw, that will work out
favourably here for Berwijn.
Bergwijn all the way,
what a brilliant goal!
No Spurs fans here to see it,
but thousands around the world
absolutely love that.
Now Berjwijn has options in the middle,
he went it alone last time.
This time he finds Son.
Brilliant header
and it's matched
by the save from David De Gea.
Good half, boys.
Once we get through it,
we just keep it.
If we keep two passes, we are fucking it.
OK, here we go.
Bruno Fernandes, of course,
is trying to play in the in the holes.
We need always to be in control
and also with the wingers in position
to close all the spaces.
I think, for sure, sooner or later,
Pogba is coming
and every time Pogba
has the ball, he will have the vision.
He will have the quality of pass,
so I can imagine Pogba
from a position like that
to get the ball and to make
a beautiful pass here for Rashford to go.
So, Pogba will improve
the quality of passing,
so, we need to press him,
and we need to control
what is far from him,
what is far from him.
They want to press all the time,
you need to measure the risk,
don’t make mistakes,
don’t attract the pressure.
Don’t attract the pressure.
One thing is to play short.
One pass, another pass and then we go.
Another thing is,
pass here, pass here, pass there,
you are attracting the pressure.
There is a lot of space to counterattack
and to kill them.
And we talk, we talk.
Don’t let Pogba shoot.
If he approaches the box,
press the ball. He shoots.
Come on boys, hey?
Come on, let’s keep going.
There is Paul Pogba.
Attention, Moussa. Attention.
Eric Dier! Position.
Fernandes
Oh, what a ball.
Martial, and it was
a vital intervention there from Dier.
He’s been really solid at centre back.
Pressure from United continues
and Hugo Lloris has produced
the save of the game.
Come on, come on.
Pogba tries to take on Dier,
he may have got the better of him.
Oh, it’s a penalty.
The decision goes against Eric Dier,
they look shoulder to shoulder.
Come, come, wake up.
Was that a foul? No, says the referee,
Rashford will play on.
And there’s a challenge by Dier
on Fernandes.
Oh, it’s another penalty
and Manchester United,
in the last minute of the ninety,
have been presented a chance
to win the game.
They can check the VAR, no?
- Hey, it was a foul just there.
- I've got to check it.
Let’s have a look here.
Oh, I don’t think that’s a penalty.
No penalty.
The decision has been overturned.
Fuck, man.
Argh, fucking hell.
Unlucky guys, hey.
Come on, come on,
eight matches to go, come on.
Come on.
We don’t win football matches
with nice guys
and you have to go to
the competition with that spirit.
Hugo Lloris was left
very exposed there
and it looks like he’s taking
his frustrations out on Heung-min Son.
Missing shit passes.
Fucking slow.
Fucking pass to the opponent.
It's sloppy.
North London is ours!
Doesn’t matter about the league,
we want to beat them,
finish above them.
We need to win for the fans,
for ourselves,
it’s a game that’s
more than just three points.