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31:14I know people say he could be a fullback. I think he's a talented lad, but I just don't know where he fits in our game right now. And I think he's probably being stunted because he's not getting minutes. I think the wise thing would have been to loan him out, but then we would have lost another kind of English player. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. He's a terrible centre-back. But I think he offers something in midfield, but not over what Sartre offers or what Berggrout offers at the moment. I mean, what would you say? Is he a number eight? Is that kind of... Because you couldn't have him as a six, I don't think, really, not in the Premier League.

31:53And I don't think that's just about his age and about his physicality right now. I just don't feel like he looks like that type of player. No, he's not like a deep building. He can't build the play from deep as a six and he can't get around and tackle like Paulina does in a six role. So he ends up kind of getting pushed into the eight role, which is just like you can run around a bit. You can get up and down the pitch and can pass a bit. So he plays an eight. I think he's a little bit lost in terms of positioning right now. It's funny though, because when I watch him play, when he does play for Spurs, you can still see, even if it's just in flickers from time to time, that there is a lot of talent there.

32:36He's clearly a really talented player. And I just sort of wonder, you know, like the Alex Scott lad that ended up going to Bournemouth. It is Bournemouth, isn't it? Yeah, he went to Bournemouth. Spurs fan was sort of heavily linked to Spurs for a long time. Who's having the time of his life now? Looks like, you know, one of England's kind of exciting young players that will maybe get a move to a bigger club in the next few years. And you sort of can't help but wonder if that was probably the trajectory that Gray should have gone on. He was very close to making that move to Brentford under Thomas Frank.

33:10I think we came in and nicked him. I don't know, you feel for the lad to a degree. But I haven't given up hope on him. Like you say, it's hard to really know where he fits in because I felt like at times for a long time last season that him and Bergval, Berrival were sort of neck and neck. I thought there were pros and cons to both of them, but I don't know. I mean, I don't know what protein shakes Bergvall's been having this summer because he's come back a different player. He's come back like physically a beast and just, I don't know, just seems to be so much more switched on to the pace of everything.

33:56I mean, it's two man-in-the-match performances in a row now for the lad. And you do forget he's 90. I don't know if you saw, did you see Polini's interview where he was after the Villarreal game. He didn't know. He was sort of saying he didn't even know that Beauvoir was only like 18, 19. He was saying he couldn't believe it. And they were all sort of pissing themselves at him because he was saying that. But he was like, yeah, this kid plays with like, you know, the maturity and he's brilliant. He's still got stuff to learn, but hopefully I can teach him stuff. And I think that's, you know, that's one of those things I think is kind of, I think overlooked at times when, when you bring a player like Pelinia into it, you know, we've, we've all sort of spoken at length at times about, you know, Ledley King talking about Nudorin Neybet being alongside him and learning from him.

34:49And, you know, we saw Leicester City having Cambiasso in there, you know, in, in the season before they went and won the Premier League and the positive impact he had a lot on a lot of the players around him and stuff. You know, I think with players like Bergvall, players like Grave and Stil Saar, they will have something to learn from a player like Pelina, I reckon. That's just really weird you said that. Are you in our Discord? Because I said those exact words today. Like King learnt loads from Neybet. And I also remember when Davids came in, we learnt a lot from Davids. But throughout football history, there's been individuals who've learnt.

35:27Like Pirlo was a number 10 and then he played alongside Baggio and Guardiola at Brescia and he adapted his game and become one of the greatest deep line playmakers in the world. So I really think there is something to gain from buying these kind of slightly older individuals and playing them alongside the youngsters. In terms of development, I think Gray, I really liked his enthusiasm to play centre-back, right-back, left-back last season. but I'm always concerned when that happens to individuals that they they keep getting pushed into roles which don't suit them and then unless they unless they finally kind of settle on a role and decide that's what they're going to do it happened a little bit with Dier as well he was midfield center back pushed around the team and we didn't know kind of where to put him right back even sometimes so it's good that they're flexible but I would like Gray to pick a place pick a position and you know what you mentioned bournemouth he would be great at bournemouth i think you could just see that working for him eric dyer i remember he's like his whipped crosses they're almost beckham-esque at times dyer when he played out on the right which was uh yeah sight it was a sight to see i mean i also remember newcastle lobbing the ball over him at home once at right back and it was just like then he tried to turn and chase back It was like, okay, yeah.

36:46That's a problem. He's quite a good career, Eric Dye, to be honest. He's played Spurs at the top level, played loads of Champions League football, loads of international football, won the title at Bayern. Now he's playing in Monaco. It's quite a nice life, that, really, to be honest. Grew up in Portugal, speaks a foreign language, really nice guy, scored a free kick for England at a European tournament. that he's had low-key, he's had a great career. I used to take the mick out of him, but, you know, fair play, he's had a great career. I listened to him on, what's his name, the cycling goalkeeper, Ben Foster.

37:26Ben Foster. Yeah, he did, I don't know if you heard it, he did a podcast with Eric Dyer. Dull as dishwater, I wouldn't recommend it if I'm honest with you. There's, you know, an hour and a half of my life, I'm not getting back. TG Tom Sublime says the Lewis family want to back Thomas Franklin D. Spurs of Elk. I see what you've done there. They've handed him the keys to a war chest of 220 million euros and told him to buy at least three players to strengthen the squad of 16. Where on the pitch do you spend the money? this is that i always get these like sometimes i sit there and nathan would just list players i've never heard of and like i see this when nathan when nathan posts his graphics when he's like well i've identified exactly what we need for this now we'll just nod along like yeah yeah good good shout nathan pulls out names of um egyptian players or north african players i've never heard of i'm like who um so i'm not gonna name players but apart from savinho let's sign let's sign let's fix the left wing so let's sign savinho so that's about seven email yeah yeah i i think i would like a fourth center back someone to cover um to cover romero van der ven i i love kevin danso i love i really i've grown so fond of him he's such a nice guy um so a fourth center back so we don't ever have to play Dragoosin or Ben Davies there.

39:01Do you reckon he is going to? I think he's going to like Dragoosin though. Yeah, probably. Yeah. There will be moments where he'll just like sit deep, insert Dragoosin, defend the penalty area. Yeah, and we'll be like, no! Again, Frank, please. I've tried to defend you to all the people, sort of digging you out after four or five games and now you're doing this to me. Dragoosin. It is quite amazing how us as Spurs fans, we've always turned up our noses at the long throw. And now all of a sudden we're like, oh, here it comes. Get in, go on, get on. Come on, Bergwahl. Launch it. Because Bergwahl took one long throw right in front of me against Villarreal.

39:39And everybody next to him was like, yeah, go on, chuck it. But we spent so long criticising it. So a left winger, a centre-back, and I think another full-back would make me really happy. probably a left back so we can move Spence to be the first reserve on the right hand side or just rotate Porro and Spence and then have Destiny and another that side but I'm not saying names because I don't know other than Sevigno yeah I've got to say like I don't know I'm going to say I think we need another striker mate I think we need yeah you know Richie started the season well and I want to have faith that he can continue in that vein but you know his legs are gone already well you know um yeah i mean dom solanke is he seems to have been hit by the kind of well i mean one thing i will say again nothing really that substantiated but i have heard through the grapevine that apparently bournemouth actually had to manage his kind of training routine pretty carefully um when he was playing for them.

40:52Yeah, there were a few underlying issues there that we seem to have exploded after a season of Angeball. I'm not going to blame Ange Postacoglu for everything. People don't like it. I need to move on. Okay. But Dom Solanke, I actually really, I do rate as a player. I think sometimes he, you know, when he's put in those sort of crucial positions, when he has to score, sometimes he just doesn't seem to just come instinctively to him. I think he has a little tendency to overthink things, but I still appreciate his endeavour. I like what he brings to that centre-forward position. I do think he's a very talented player.

41:31I would like to see us have though just a machine again, a goal-scoring machine, just despite how he came back. Levy's gone now. They fell out. Let's just have Harry back. We're re-entering the era of the lump up front right we just we just sold the best lump there's ever been up front you know which probably undersells harry kane's uh majestic ability a bit but but you know i mean like that that tree trunk that newcastle have just bought he's unbelievable what a player it's like a massive burbatov it was another one i didn't i didn't i watched saw i watched them in the euros and you're under 21s the highlights and it was like, yeah.

42:14But I really like Cesco. I think I'm always kind of drawn towards strikers with a right foot and I really like Cesco. Unfortunately, he's gone to Man United and that's his career ruined. But yeah, I could see that in Italy in the 90s, they had like the season of the big, the seven sisters where they had seven teams who could all win the league. And I kind of, I do fantasize about the same thing happening in the Premier League where you just have seven teams with seven amazing number nines and it becomes like a shootout. Which number nine is going to win the league for you? I don't think Richarlison or Solanke, as much as I like Solanke, has got those numbers in him.

42:52And I don't think Kolo Marani has it either. So I would like to see Spurs sign an amazing number nine. But I think that how much should we get to spend? I think we're going to, I don't think it's a priority right now.

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43:50Pays Checkout is offered by your banks and credit unions. So when you shop online at participating merchants, your cards appear in one place, ready to use and kept up to date. And the best part, your actual card number isn't shared when you check out because boundaries are healthy. Like, no work emails after six. One small step for boundaries. One big leap for checkout. Pays. It checks out. Activation required. See Pays.com to learn more. Terms and conditions apply. I know he's a bit of a crock as well now, unfortunately, but can we just tap up Juventus for Vlaovic again? He's sort of looking like he's scored some pretty tasty...

44:30I think he scored a couple against Dortmund the other night. At least one of them was a pretty tasty finish off his right foot as well yeah yeah i mean it looks like he's sort of coming back up to speed again a bit he has been in full donkey mode for like two seasons though they hate him they've they've really hated him at uve do they yeah he's well he's been a real since he was amazing a few of tina he was amazing yeah and then he went there and he just looked like a dud but then there's been a lot of turmoil at uve but yeah he looks like it looks like he's coming back into form. I mean, Colin Moani was all right at Juve, actually, wasn't he?

45:04So, I sort of have forgotten that we have kind of signed him, and it seems to be this sort of haziness as to whether or not we've got an option. I've seen contrasting reports on that, so I'll be interested to see him when he gets up to speed a bit, because I have to say, I did think he looked like a bit of a donkey the other night when he was playing for us, but he's not playing any football for quite some time. and that that he was hamstrung by the fact he got booked immediately and ridiculously so as well i felt but you know there's there's something about being in the stadium when a player makes his debut and there's that expectation that as soon as they get it they're going to do something mad yeah or something brilliant and i always remember being there when mido had his debut and he did this he jumped in the air and did this flick and everybody just went wow and that kind of like set the tone for his career at Spurs.

45:57Even though it wasn't that good in the end, that was probably the highlight of it. So when Mouane got the ball, and I think he couldn't see from where I was sat, but it looked like his first touch took it out play for throwing. Everyone around us just kind of went, oh, like, oh no, what have we got? At least we've only got him on loan. Yeah. So there's a, I thought I'd chuck this one in, Barley, because you responded to it. um ricky at ricky tfc says uh if somebody tells you to meet at a specific spot to walk back to seven sisters after a match do you a meet the person that the spot mentioned b start walking away and name spots you've already passed in the hope to meet or c blob off your mate for a line so the line by off got me i've not actually heard that expression but i quite like i need to defend myself so under Ange I would leave at 75 minutes jump on a line bike and I'd be at Tottenham Hale my record on like according to line bike I never put it on Strava was like six minutes it was amazing you're the rival it's great so jump out the stadium dash down the stairs jump on the line bike and go but I said to Ricky in Beaver Town before the game said we're back in the Champions League Ange is gone I'm gonna stay till full time I stayed till full time final whistle went and I I wandered out and I stood by the corner pin and I waited ages.

47:24I waited forever and I messaged him, are you coming? And I thought maybe he'd blobbed off without me. And then as I was waiting there, a friend of mine I hadn't seen in ages turned up with his dad and his uncle. And they're both old. And I thought, okay, I'm going to walk with them because they're walking really slow. And then Ricky can catch me up. But Ricky walks even slower than them. And I didn't get home till midnight anyway. So I'm sorry, Ricky, but fucking hell. You don't need me to hold your hand sometimes, but I do apologise. It's because he goes to those dirty burger vans after the game as well.

47:56He loves them. No, it's before the game. He goes to Enjoy Cafe before the game and they serve the straightest sausages you've ever seen. The baked beans are bizarre, the colour of them. That's just not normal tomato colour. He also, Ricky, put a rat emoji on the tweet as well, just so you know. The thing about Ricky is, I love Ricky and I'm sure you love him as well, but he gets an idea in his head and it just becomes the truth and he'll never forget once as a joke i said to him i'll drive you to the stadium just give me some petrol money and it's turned into this thing that i i now require an invoice for petrol every time i give someone a lift for fuck's sake and once i went to the bar and i didn't no one was there so i went to the bar bought a drink came back everybody was there and i just had one pint and it's become that but it doesn't buy rounds so like fuck's sake man sounds like he's got you banged the right so mate yeah but he just makes it he makes it truth uh which is what one of the things i do love about him just propagates propagates yeah he loves it the thing about rick is oh whenever there's anything any hint of any sort of gossip anywhere i'll just have this whatsapp notification I'm like, it's him.

49:09And he loves it. He loves it. Right. Campione Coise at Bakubi Coise says, ask Bardi what he's most looking forward to about Anja's mighty forest. Did you, and I get it. I know people are being a bit sensitive, right? I know the man won us. They won us a European trophy. He won us that. Great. But you can still, is about making fun of people. It's about Schadenfreude. Is that how you say it? So for him to say, it's not going to be a year, it's not going to be weeks, Wednesday is where you'll see Ange ball. And then they drop a two goal lead and lose 3-2 to Swansea. You have to appreciate the humour behind that, surely.

49:58Come on. There's no... We loved Harry Kane and the fact that Harry Kane left Spurs and in his first season after leaving Spurs didn't win anything. Like, of course it's funny. Like, who wanted Harry Kane to go to Bayern and just sweep up in his first season without us? This is what happens in football. Bostokoglu giving it all of that. They go into Forest and if he gets relegated, that's pretty funny. And even like you said, he loves himself so much. Oh, you wait till Wednesday and then they get beat to Swansea. So I don't want anybody to leave our club and do better. I just don't want it to happen because that means that they're achieving more success.

50:36If I could, I would have 19 teams relegated a season. I don't want any other team to do anything of positivity unless it's preventing Arsenal from doing it, you know? Especially not Maranakis' lot as well. Exactly. I don't give a shit. So Forrest won a couple of cups in the 70s. I don't care. Exactly. And if he'd gone to Swindon, if he'd gone to Bournemouth, I would wish them evil as well because I don't want anybody to have success apart from Tottenham. Yeah, that was one of those things. I wasn't having this. I can understand if you don't want to wish ill towards Postacoglu. But some of the people being like, I'll be keeping an eye on Forrest's results.

51:18No one. Come on, man. Like, come on. No. That's a bit arsenal, that. That's a bit soft. Well, because it's also kind of like working on this assumption that we're absolutely, definitely assured to finish above Nottingham Forest. You can kind of do that patting on the head thing if you think they're going to squabble around in the bottom half and do nothing. They spend a lot of money. They've got a lot of good players. Ange won as a European trophy last year. What's to say he's not going to go and win them one? People have said that as well. Oh, I hope he wins them the Europa League. I don't. I don't.

51:54I don't want to see Nottingham Forest win a Europa League. I don't want to have our achievement devalued by them doing it. Exactly. Debasing it. Do you know what I mean? Exactly. Waking their feet over it. Villa. I don't want Villa touching our trophy. In fact, I wish they would scrap the Europa League. I don't want anyone else touching that trophy. I don't want to see anyone. Yeah, I don't want to see it in the hands of everybody else. But Ryan Mason, I get. I hope West Brom get promoted. I hope West Brom do amazing things. But I don't want anybody that leaves Spurs to succeed in life. I don't want him to get run over.

52:28but I'd be quite happy with him never winning another football match. You don't want Villa's smelly hands all over our sandwich, do you? You don't want someone else touching your sandwich. Can you imagine them lot with that trophy driving me around the bench? Disgusting. CM on the Royal Roost Discord says, it was more just a comment to you, buddy, which was, I just want to say that he's done God's work going super early super early on Ange against the Extra Inch Discord community that often came across as pretty pro getting walloped every week to preserve one man's utter tactical inflexibility.

53:12So there you go. I would like to defend Extra Inch Discord to say it was mostly anti-Ange for very early. We had one individual who kept a list of 20 Ange performances to remember when something good happened. And he used to update that daily. I think number one on the list was Tamworth. Like, never forget Tamworth. Going to extra time against Tamworth is what I would say to anybody who feels any kind of passion towards Poster Coglu. I mean, it is actually mad. Like, we very nearly lost that as well. You know, they were just millimetres from beating us in that. I went back and watched the highlights the other day because obviously after the game, I never watched it again.

53:55It was gone. but I thought, let me go and revisit this and it was amazing how close we were to losing that match. I mean, I honestly think, and I really don't mean this as like, you know, hyperbole or whatever. I really think that's the worst performance I've ever seen from Tottenham Hotspur. I think that's worse than the Mourinho getting us knocked out with their gaffer in prison in the conference league. I think that the 90 minutes against Tamworth, I think is genuinely the worst I've ever seen Spurs, ever. It's worse than the losing to 10 men's city when we were a 3-0 up and that was bad. John Mackham.

54:32The John Mackham game, isn't it? It's worse than, it's definitely worse than losing to a manager in prison. Were you there? Yeah. Which was great. I mean, it was a moment in history, wasn't it? But yeah. So is it, I mean, was it a bit of a civil war on there? Or was it all right? Towards the end, it was, I think by January. You've got enough patrons already, Boddy. You don't need to sell it that much, all right? Just give us the juicy stuff. No, no. By January of 2025, it was pretty anti-Ange in there. It was, yeah. I think even Nathan, by early 2025, kind of understood that the writing was on the wall for Posta Coglu.

55:16Nathan's quite good at keeping his cards close to his chest, though, isn't he? He can just drop out sort of suggestive things that will say, I'm quite clear. If you're on the same page as me, you will see that I'm quite clearly anti this position. However, he's not like one of us, mate. One of these proper football man chess-beating types that has to blur our kind of blunt takes out. That's the thing. The theory behind everything Nathan says is spot on and really correct. I agree with it, but then sometimes I'm like, no, I don't care. This guy can't pass. He could tackle a lot. and I'm just perfectly happy with someone I could tackle.

55:56Somebody called Chris Lanson Miller at Windy Coy's on Blue Sky has said you need at least one food question. One that came up on our Discord. You lot, you never, you relentless promotion of everything. One that came up on our Discord recently was top five cheeses. And Windy's list is halloumi. halloumi porcelain so plain mozzarella extra mature cheddar brie i mean that is that is a that's a tim sherwood's cheese board right there but i could have named i could i reckon i would have got three of those without without knowing because he's got a funny stomach he can't he can't handle flavor but i thought he would have gone mild cheddar though actually i was surprised he extra mature cheddar i mean cheddars the only good thing about cheddar is the way it melts i think it melts wonderfully but otherwise cheddars the fact that everyone's got it in this fridge kind of sums it up i also i really like mozzarella which is fine but in certain places you know what really annoys me at the moment burrata everybody obviously like you go to a restaurant oh i just get the burrata starter fuck it come on what is it the ones is it because of these, you know, these unrefined English types tucking into Italian cuisine thinking they're classy.

57:22Is that what it is? No, it's just so boring. Like the burrata doesn't actually taste of anything. You've just got to chuck a load of balsamic vinegar on it, a load of olive oil, tomatoes, and it's all right. But you get one between two and you end up chasing each other around the plate for it. So it wouldn't be on my list. If I was stuck somewhere, I'd always take Parmesan cheese. that's just that that's the greatest cheese you get good quality parmesan you can you can have it just take slices off it and eat it um you can't make pasta without it you can kind of substitute in pecorino every now and then but i like um parmesan i like gorgonzola i do like a stilton as well something that packs a bit punch to it stinking a real stinking bastard yeah i mean i love all that you know uh you know parmesan's one of those that the uh you know like the carnivore bros carnivore diet lot who love all um you know they'll just drink milk from a cow's udder kind of thing unpasteurized and all that type of stuff they love parmesan i think there's one of them what's his name he does all stuff with like rfk now and stuff as well in america saladini yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah he he was just yeah he he always talks about how he just carries he'll carry a block of parmesan around with him because it's unpasteurized cheese yeah um and he gets so passionate about it i mean i've never seen a man who looks quite as like unhealthy as he does talk about like the health benefits of just eating meat and unpasteurized dairy all the time there's one on instagram an english guy gingerhead dude who talks about carnival dice and everything he goes oh i'm gonna make a a healthy pizza or a healthy this all he does is just make omelets everything is everything is an omelet with he just shreds chicken oh here we go here's the base he's gonna shred some chicken and put some egg in it and then grate some cheese everything's a fucking omelet that guy you have he's got no joy in his life like you can eat healthy without eating processed and you can have a bit of variety in your diet um but yeah i i kind of and it has like no fruit and he looks terrible like he looks anemic someone someone needs to check his bloods he did a um he did a healthy fish and chips and he made i can't remember how he did the fish how he like got around battering the fish but the chips were like slices of chicken yeah these are the chips that will go with your go with your go with your fish already i don't know and he uses it for breadcrumbs he uses um dried chicken skin that's been blended and that's how he like does his breadcrumbs it's mad these people it's bizarre like again but it's no good the other thing is as well all this sort of the protein obsession you clog your kidneys up as well is it kidneys or your liver one of the two you don't look i think there's like a finite amount a protein that your body can process every single day yeah i'm gonna get all the fitness bros i'm gonna go at me now what would you know you're fat bastard what are you doing talking about diet plans and stuff fair point um sounds like you should um a little a little patreon side hustle to do some do some protein diet plans and sell them i do it should i try it yeah maybe i'll i'll get on that um one year's time you're just ripped and then you're just waiting omelets that's it just omelets and chicken finger crisps um mate it's it's uh it's been a pleasure thanks coming on again body um it's wonderful about you lot and your uh shameless self-promotion but is there anything anything you want to promote at the moment um check out i'm right for the bbc which is a place i've never thought i'd end up so check out my my regular blogs on there and then if you want to if you want to get tactical and you want to hear about stats and stuff like that but you're I want to hear from a real proper football man like myself, then sign up to our Patreon, The Extra Inch.

1:01:25Where can I find you? I didn't know you were doing stuff on the BBC. I'm just having a look now. A little under the MyClub thing. Oh, there you are. There you are. Fan's voice. Very strong. Here we go. Very strong start for Frank, but goal-scoring opportunities remain rare. Yeah. They wrote that headline. Digging him out already in the MSM. I see you. I see you, mate. Barley mate, appreciate it Take it easy

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