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1:44Jack:Come on you Spurs That's what I like to see Come on boys Come on boys Finally a good result We've had a few good results But finally a performance I don't care if FC Copenhagen Are championship level or whatever It's Champions League Spurs still unbeaten in the competition. And now, look, doing what we've wanted them to do, doing what people have been calling for them to do all season. Play progressively, play on the front foot, go for the opposition. From minute one, we were on the front foot, we were attacking them relentlessly. It was wonderful. Wonderful performance, wonderful scoreline, and just real, like, one of those games where I just feel so buoyant afterwards.

2:35Do you know what I mean? When we went sort of 3-0 up, then it goes to 4, and it's just like bang, bang. Where's this going to stop? Every single attack, it felt like we were going to, I mean, it almost looked like we were going to get a fifth straight after the fourth as well.

2:49Jack:Similar thing, Spurs just breaking away. Everyone kind of flocking into the opposition half, knocking the ball about swiftly, incisively. People playing with a bit of instinct, people playing with a bit of gumption, you know? it's what I want to see from them it's what we want to see it's what we've wanted to see all season and I've got to say there were moments there were moments tonight where I was thinking Pelinia Pelinia's not beating the allegations man like the way we were threading the ball about the front footedness of it Xavi dropping deep looping the ball over the top for the first goal and was just generally playing brilliantly, I thought, tonight.

3:37Jack:I called him a magician on Twitter. Little bit of pushback, most people agreeing. Lovely performance from him. Probably his best performance in a Spurs shirt so far. It just, I don't know. It felt like, I think it's twofold, right? I think there's a few things at play here. Frank has Frank's let him play a bit tonight I think we can say that I think look he's probably conscious of the fact that the entire well I was going to say the week's discourse we only played Chelsea on Saturday but the discourse for the past couple of days has been Frank is stunting this Spurs side Frank is not allowing them to play look at this negative football that Spurs are playing.

4:28Jack:I mean, I'm pretty sure he even got asked it in the pre-match presser ahead of this game. Why are you playing so negatively? And he's like, no, I don't. I don't play negative football. I never played negative football at Brentford. I don't really know what's going on kind of thing. So he's obviously kind of refuting that a bit and whether or not he's seen the strength of the opposition and with all due respect to FC Copenhagen, and they're not one of the elite teams in the Champions League. They were, I think they were 22nd in the table before tonight. 22nd of 24 teams. They are the sort of team that when you're playing them at home, you should be going for.

5:11Jack:So he would have had, I mean, he would have had no excuses tonight doing the Pelinia-Bentenker double pivot. Either way, he hasn't done that. So yeah, he's probably approached this in a more front-footed fashion. He's probably had in the back of his mind. Look, you know, people are always going to say a manager's not going to bend to public pressure. You know, is it good that a manager's responding to... I don't really care about all that stuff. I just think on a human level, he's probably thought, right, I've got to kind of go for this a bit. I've got to try and win the players over a bit. There were those sort of somewhat unpleasant scenes after that.

5:48Jack:Unpleasant scenes is a bit dramatic, but you know what I mean? there were the uncomfortable scenes after the game of van de ven and spence kind of publicly you know mugging him off basically and it it was heartening to hear that they actually unprompted went to his office and apologized for it people are going to have different opinions about that type of thing but in my opinion that's the right thing to do i'm not saying you know he in the moment players aren't allowed to be frustrated i know they're young men i know they've been booed by a stadium for the people they probably don't want to go and clap and wave and all that type of stuff I get it I completely understand I'm not policing their frustration per se but I think mugging the manager off in the fashion that they did so publicly it's just not a good look it's not a good look keep that stuff in house if you need to have a go at him or you need to question the tactics or whatever keep it in house that's just kind of my opinion so I didn't I didn't like them doing that publicly but to hear that they went to him straight up and apologized I think is a good thing but regardless of that I think Frank has probably had a lot of that on the back of his mind people think I'm playing too negatively maybe I do need to switch it up a bit and switch it up we did the other factor going into this is the players individually have a point to prove I'm sure a lot of those players didn't like being booed I'm sure a lot of those players don't like the fact that yeah all right they might be able to throw the manager under the bus I'm not saying they are doing that but I'd say player power is as such that players are always going to have a certain a certain kind of leverage here where they know that the press are going to go to the manager first they know that generally speaking fans are going to question the manager's tactics and things like that first so the players do get a bit of leeway but at the same time you know a lot of people have been calling out their performances a lot of people have been saying well what's frank supposed to do with the quality of this squad and you know i do think a few of those are probably sat up and thought well you know i don't like playing this way and i you know i would like to think that a team that has just won the europa league would have a bit more sort of pride than we saw against chelsea the other night i think Chelsea was Chelsea was an overall pretty disgusting performance from front to back managerially player wise and I think a lot of them will have wanted to sort of rectify that you know there's been some big talk in the pressers from Vicario and from Frank I think Vicario's statement about the players not the fans not supporting the players has been probably willfully taken out of context a bit by the aggregators um if you actually look at the full context of vicario's comments he has said of course the you know the bit they focused on is him saying look it's always going to be more helpful to the players if they've got the stadium behind them at all times which you know i think is a fair statement to make but when if it was made in isolation in the context of having only won three four games all year at the home stadium having played pretty appallingly at home consistently um the ticket prices being what they are it's not a good look but he did go on to say that they also understand why the fans are frustrated they understand why a performance that they put in against the likes of Chelsea in a London derby is going to frustrate people and they're frustrated too and so on and so forth so he was he was making you know he he was being much more apologetic than the little clipped out part of his comments in the press were made out to be.

9:38Jack:But Frank sort of said something kind of similar as well. And, you know, it's always going to be the way, isn't it? Like, you know, fans, players and managers are generally when they sort of know they could be doing better, are always going to say, well, you know, it would be helpful if the fans did this, but you know, I think, I think it's hard to, I think it's hard to dig out Spurs fans at this point in time. And you know, it was a, there were a lot of empty seats. There were a lot of empty seats tonight and you only have to look at the fact that this was a, what was this? A category B fixture.

10:17I think it was category B. This was in between two cat A fixtures on a Tuesday night. I mean, it's just, there's easy wins to be had here, right? Save the height. Look, people will, if Spurs get through the league stage of the Champions League, any knockout phase of the Champions League,

10:41Jack:I'm not saying they should, but my point is, you could make every single game in the knockouts of the Champions League a Category A fixture, which they probably will anyway, and that stadium will be full. It will be full. in the league stages against fc copenhagen 20 30 pound tickets fill the stadium you know that's what you need to do fill the stadium give parents the opportunity to take their kids to these sort games you know fa cup league cup the the lesser games in the champions league all right if we're hosting i know i know we're playing psg away but if we were hosting a psg if we're hosting around Madrid somebody like that fine category a I think everybody I think everybody will will reconcile that people will understand that's how it works FC Copenhagen at home you can't justify 60 65 70 pounds whatever it is for that Champions League or not you just can't let's just let's just be real about it um so it was interesting to see TNT pick pick up on that I think they made a fairly good point about it and then Joe Hart sort of undid it a bit by saying the stadium would be full if Spurs were doing well though which I think is kind of beside the point you know I think we have to focus on the fact that football fans are asked to shell out a lot of money right now and

12:07Jack:people can be forgiven for being conscious of how much they have paid for a ticket yes it doesn't entitle them to win every game yes it doesn't entitle you to sit down and watch Spurs win 3-4-0 like we have done this evening. It doesn't entitle you to that, but it at least entitles you to want to see the team perform to the best of their abilities. And, you know, again, most football fans, nobody likes to see their team lose, but most football fans really are reasonable enough to say, and I do think they are. I do think a lot of football fans don't get the credit they deserve a lot of the time.

12:45Jack:and I think most people will say, look, if we were just beaten by the better team, then that's kind of fair enough. Mostly like I heard after the Newcastle game, to be brutally honest, the general consensus I saw from Spurs fans was Newcastle were just better than us on the night. Disappointing to be out of the League Cup, but they were better than us and we lost and that's what happens sometimes. But look, this is all bigger issue stuff. I don't really need to be going on about this right now. We've won 4-0 tonight. it's a brilliant performance Frank has switched it up Xavi Siemens has put in one of the best performances I've seen from him in a Spurs shirt Papu Matassar again to me look I know you'll be shocked to hear me talking about Papu Matassar but Papu Matassar for me has again shown why he is so crucial to this team he set the tempo and he did for me he set the tempo from minute one he always makes himself available he never hides Rodrigo Bentancur has had a good game tonight but Rodrigo Bentancur started to have a very good game when the tempo started to suit Spurs having a good game and I'm not saying he hid or anything but he did not set the tempo and he does not set the tempo and when things don't go well for Spurs like against Chelsea Rodrigo Bentancur has a habit of hiding Pat Matassar every time he is on the football pitch for Tottenham Hotspur never hides he never ever hides he always makes himself available he looks to receive every ball he looks to break up every opposition play he drops back to pick up the ball he drives forwards the second he gets the ball he drives forwards he gets the ball towards the business end of the pitch he makes things happen he sets the tempo he sets the press for me and i just think he's i think he's crucial to what we think he's one of our most important players i really really do um and i know i always bang on about him i know i always go on about him but i i really i just feel i feel that strongly about him um i will do all the players individually but you know it was just it was it was

14:55colinwani starting to look pretty special isn't he like very good performance wilson odaba you know

15:05Jack:brilliant player I've you know I've I've I've not I'm not going to sit here and say I've sat here and said he's going to definitely be amazing but but I have said from pretty much beginning I've seen a lot of promise in him um and you know some people are going to say oh he's found his level he's playing against Copenhagen but I think you I think he was very very good tonight it was just there was just there was a fluidity to Spurs there's a fluidity to the way we played and what we were doing that was just it was brilliant it was it was a joy to behold and this is what we this is what we want to see more of we want to see more of this knowing that we are capable of doing this i'm not going to focus on on the negatives i'm not going to say oh it makes it disappointing that we haven't seen this it doesn't matter knowing that we can do this is good it's heartening it it it allows the sort of creeping dispiriting feeling that does come in after the past few weeks at least where we've been eking out results i mean i say that we smashed everton in their backyard as well and played really well there so you know i do think there is there is perhaps and i talk about this a lot and yes again i totally understand the irony of a man sat here talking to himself about there being too much discourse around football but there is like and I think I think we know that and I think we know we talk about and dissect every single thing about football probably too much but I'm going to continue doing it anyway thing is there has been at least there's been a creeping dispiriting feeling around Spurs because we don't really know how good or not we are how good or not is thomas frank how good or not is this squad and i think just what performance is like tonight show you yes i'm not saying we're going to go and win the champions league from this but the bottom line of this is fc copenhagen are a team that with all due respect and all that type of stuff spurs should be comfortably turning over and what have we done tonight comfortably turn them over we have done our job we've done our job with the plumb and that is good that is something we should be happy about it's not something we should be using to say well why haven't we done that or well we've only done it because it says we've only done we this is what we've done we've done what we were supposed to do tonight and we've done it in lovely fashion mickey van der ven pretty much scoring a carbon copy of Sonny's push gas goal against Burnley.

17:44Like an absolutely ludicrous. I was honestly, I was slack-jawed watching that happening because I was thinking, like when he went past the halfway line, I was thinking, he's going to do it. He's going to score this. Do you know what I mean? Like, you know, one of those when you're like, I'm almost like not excited about this because I'm sort of just so confident in the fact that he's going to do this. He's actually going to go and score this. This is mad. And the thing is, though, it wasn't an easy finish either. It was after the run, after the way he's marauded down the length of an entire football pitch, the angle that he had there and the finish that he's produced is sensational.

18:30Like any striker in the world, any player in the world would be happy with that goal. with all parts of that goal, but the finish itself was absolutely phenomenal. And I really, like, I don't mean to be over the top when I say this. That has to be him running for the Pushkas Award. It has to be. It's a sensational goal. It's an absolutely phenomenal goal. He's a force of nature, that lad. Like, he's so hard to...

19:04he's so hard to just like to to to pin down as like as an athlete well he's not that hard to pin down as an athlete I don't I'm not really making my point very clearly here just in respect to like he's just he's a titan that's what he is like he's he's a he is a supreme athlete um and that goal is just yeah i mean something special something absolutely special that goal i mean it's just yeah i'm just buzzing i think that's it's just it's lovely to see spurs playing that well and getting a result like that um red card an absolute joke like an absolute joke i don't i don't know how a var official has looked to that and thought that was worthy of a red card it was quite clear what's happened there his foot was hanging but it wasn't it wasn't coming in with any force um it wasn't coming in a you know particularly malicious angle it's made the slightest contact it's a you know it's a clumsy mistime challenge that didn't look at all dangerous it just didn't it didn't look the way in which the players were moving you've completely what they've done there is completely removed the context from it it they've just simply said whatever it was the excuse they said or the reasoning for it was his studs were up or studs were showing whatever but it just completely stripped the context from when you when you watch the way that that has played out why would you try to pretend that you you don't see that that is not a red card challenge and this this is the this is the thing about var for me too much of the time is that it's making people it's making officials too scared to use their own judgment to use their own human judgment people that you know we're all saying oh these officials are all off they don't know anything they're they all know football there's a reason why they want to be an official in football because they love football they're probably not good enough to be football players but they want to be involved in the game in some way shape or form so they've gone on to be an official so they all love it obviously love football they all probably watch football they all know the way football works the way people's bodies move and all this type of stuff so when you see incidents like the brennan johnson one tonight why would you deny the truth that you know with your own eyes i just i this is what i don't understand and you know that everybody you know that everybody watching it knows that you're making the incorrect decision you know you're making the incorrect decision but what you were trying to do is just interpret in the most jobs worthy fashion whatever the rules are but you you just quite simply know that that was not a red card it's ridiculous and it's just that's the thing with var there's just too much of that.

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23:43Let's do this. I am streaming tonight because it's exciting, isn't it? I got all excited and also it's not my shift this time. yay um i'm not saying i'm not doing i'm not doing oh yeah i don't have to look after baby i i i am a modern man and i love looking after my baby and i feel very blessed about it so i'm not gonna do like i'm not doing that i'm gonna call myself out there pathetic mate pathetic who he's showing off to pathetic transformational mangoes says coys yes james 83 says at last exclamation mark yes James transformational mangoes also says big win at home a much needed big win big big big win energy Robert says nice evening up the spurs go on day says

24:40Jack:loved how we played but got to keep our feet on the ground Copenhagen were miserable could be the worst team we play all year I know what you're saying day but like I say we've done our job yes Copenhagen weren't very good they were championship if not league one standard however what you would expect of Spurs is to beat a team like this 4 or 5 nil and that's what we've done so you know we've done our part

25:10Jack:John Benfield says first game where Moani looked like he actually wanted to play for us it's Champions League isn't it it's exciting it's exciting for everybody Hacker BLCPS says Woo! In a Ric Flair fashion Darren says Bentancur is clearly A much better footballer Than Polina I think it depends As to what you're asking Him to do I would say Yep Bentancur is He's a better passer Isn't he? I think I don't think Was that ever in doubt? I don't know I don't think If that was ever A question or not The thing is Bentancur whether or not you want to compare him with Pelinha Benton Kerr can be and needs to be upgraded upon that's sort of my feeling on him don't think he's the player that he once was and that's understandable that's not his fault but that's the way that it is and you know is what it is Ayres says needed that subpar opposition or not really hope we can back it up this weekend coys bang on michael tamarez says have we considered playing with 10 men to spark the attack in future that's what uh that's what joe hart was saying wasn't it in um joking fashion he said it almost feels like a tactical masterstroke by thomas frank to play with 10 men um john benfield also says excellent performance all round player standing up and taking some accountability.

26:46Jack:Jask says, Warragal Jack, Van der Ven looking like prime Sonny, needed this before United, Johnson off again, ole, ole.

26:58Jack:Pirate Dred Roberts says, just feels good to know you're the better team, then go out and prove it. Need more of this approach. Bang on. Absolutely bang on. And that's it. That's all you can ask for. the zeros and ones Dane's undone by Dane managed by Dane Dane's yeah but who's are you talking about Dane Scarlett I guess Dane Scarlett was lovely old cameo really really nice footwork on the ball to win that penalty I wish they'd let him have it as well I wish he'd been given it but I get it zeros and ones also says love that we've beat being a team with cope in their name there we go james nicholson says is van de ven the new gareth bale what a goal much better tonight but still felt we were too passive at times in the first half and passed the ball backwards too much are you not entertained james nicholson are you not entertained come on mate no i know fair enough it's fair enough it's fair enough right even in times of mirth even in times of joy to just want to take a step back and piss on it for everyone else, James.

28:11Fair enough, mate.

28:13Jack:I may joke him. Just Gems, I think Copenhagen let us play all the space and time they wanted pretty much. A fun watch for once. Hopefully a night off the Premier League press can give the lads some confidence. That's what we want, isn't it?

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28:40Jack:Robert says, Van de Ven could seriously deputise at number nine, and I think he'd be better than Richarlison. Would be quite mad to see him. It would be sort of interesting to see. It could be one of those things where he does all right in the moment, but if you actually set your stall out that way, he could probably be quite horrific.

29:01Jack:K9 McGurn1 says, I said on Twitter, maybe not a coincidence, our first nice attacking football. Now that Polini is on the bench, goal and assist after he was subbed on. Apologies, I'm a dunce. Well, you know, I don't know. Jack Underhill says, Benton Kerman in the match. I'm not having that. Xavi, Mouane, Adoghi and Odeber were great. Head was on Mars when Richarlison took the penalty off Scarlett. And do you know, I tell you what the thing is as well. I am self-avowed Brexit AF when it comes to penalties. Just step up, put your foot through the ball and twat it into the back of the net. Do you know what I mean?

29:49Like none of this messing around, none of this like stopping stuttering run-up stuff like he did. It drives me insane every single time they do it. Every single time a player does that, stop start like tiptoes all this type of the like the roberto carlos like tiptoeing towards the ball just step up and smack it into the back of the net those are always the penalties that are the best they are like i just i think i honestly attack has put themselves at a disadvantage by doing that by doing the stop start stuttering stuff most of the penalties that i see missed are ones where they try and do that.

30:30Just pick your corner and smack it into it. It's one thing, one of my like Midar type complaints about penalties, and I agree with him, has always been they are paid loads of money to train to kick footballs all the time. They should know the weight, the angles, all of it of a football. Any player anywhere on the pitch should be able to dispatch a penalty.

30:57Jack:yes technically speaking that does take away from the fact there's pressure on the zis is that there is a psychological element to taking a penalty but on a technical basis every single player look let's be real even your average sort of sunday league player can take a decent penalty just step up smack it into the back of the net do it um

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31:39Phil Walker says Koiz Polinia with the fire assist For Van de Ven's goal

31:49Jack:and Mike Wilcox says Copenhagen are a pub side they may well be but we did them so that's good Robert says also big psychological boost to get a win without Kudus again Kudus just a knock it's never just a knock with Spurs is it it's never just a knock I think it was just a knock with Kulusevsky wasn't it and look what happened there So Oli Whitefoot says, if Dembele or Yamal scored that goal, it would win the Puskas. I think that's a fair point. I mean, there's every chance that it might. It should do. It should at least be in the conversation, you know? Let's see. Soul Sniper Gaming says, I don't want to see another scared performance on Saturday.

32:37Jack:I don't want to see Polini and Bentancur ever again. Grow a pair for Saturday. Is that me or Spurs or both? Probably both. Joshua Pardy says, Sonny's was slightly better because he was skipping past multiple challenges. But yes, Puskas in the books. Go on then.