Spurs Amazon Documentary?

[he is you know!]

Just watched ep 1.

My biggest laugh was when setting up the first game against Spam, Tom Hardy said "their 60,000 fans"!?

Half of them have come to watch.the opposition.

 

[Metalhead]

This is a really bland show with only a few interesting titbits and insights into who our players actually are in real life - that is the only thing that keeps me watching, being already emotionally invested in them.

For a neutral, however, there is little to make you want to play the next episode unless you worship Mourinho. The guy loves the cameras so much I think it very likely played some part in him being here now, from the point of view of both Mourinho and Levy. Mourinho is a total complete narcissist. I can imagine it has a lot of currency in a job like that - but those traits mean you are a fool in the rest of life. That conversation between Kane and Mourinho is his office, telling Kane he can make him 'explode' had me in stitches.

This show is a blatant club PR stunt, with particular focus on re-branding Levy. We learn he just really really cares about Tottenham. Yunno - not just the club, and bringing the fans success, but also the locality, and especially all those poor struggling locals living at or below the poverty line. We already know wants to help them by buying up all the land and housing stock and playing property developer. That's right - the best way to regenerate the area is simply to move rich people in and scatter the annoying poor people to the wind.

In another scene Levy is utterly perplexed with the breakdown of Eriksen's commitment to Spurs. It is unresolvable we learn because there is just no contact from Eriken's agent. He asks Mourinho if he can use his clout to have a word and convince him to sign that new contract. Levy asks, 'Maybe you can try one more time to work some Jedi mind shit on him, Jose?.. and get him to sign that contract for £40 a week plus a free travelcard?'

Incidentally, the very brief time we get to listen to Eriksen, he comes across as the most inteligent and thoughtful of all the players we get to hear. Contrast that to Dele's dumb blonde toothpaste moment and you can see that the young instagram generation is well and truly fucked and dumbed down. The future looks bright...

So you didn’t like it then.

 

[John48]

Have to say I thought the managers office would have been a bit bigger, Klopp's at L'Pool's training ground is a ballroom by comparison & the players changing room looks no great shakes either in comparison to what's at the stadium. Going to be difficult to SD in those places.

 

[John48]

My biggest laugh was when setting up the first game against Spam, Tom Hardy said "their 60,000 fans"!?

Sure I've read somewhere Hardy is a WHam supporter.

 

[slartibartfast]

Sure I've read somewhere Hardy is a WHam supporter.

That explains the exaggeration

 

[spursfan77]

Sure I've read somewhere Hardy is a WHam supporter.

Normally I can’t stand to watch him “act” because he just fucking mumbles throughout the whole of every film. He’s good in this though, sounds a bit like Michael Caine with how he phrases his sentences in (one of my favourite football films) Hero - story of the 1986 World Cup Finals.

 

[popstar7]

Narrator: Jan's visiting North Enfield food bank. The organisation helps out low income families in the area and with Christmas just around the corner it's much needed help for local families. After five years helping out Jan's built up quite a connection with the team there.
FB Employee 1: Lovely goal Saturday, Jan! Legend!
Jan: Thanks.
FB Employee 2: Can you sign this photo, please? There's four of them.
Jan: Sure.
FB E2: It's for my grandaughters. They live in Holland. Do you know <Dutch town>?
Jan: Yeah, I think I've passed it.
FB E1 (after having photo taken with Jan): Go smash Chelsea on Sunday!
Jan: Haha. We will try.

Did the director/producer specifically tell everyone to act like they'd never met before? I know there's someone posts here who (i think) works at another food bank but their visit didn't make the cut. Just that after that intro of 'quite a connection' it was a hilariously stilted scene. Why are these people who've known him for ages asking for photos and autographs?

 

[daveduvet]

Second episode in and I’m genuinely enjoying it; I’m conscious of the edit, but its entertaining - It’s our club.. there’s gonna be ups & downs; I’m seeing it as all good thus far

 

[Stedt]

Just had a look on my Prime video app, and it says there’s Spanish subtitles.

I tried to watch it using my Argentine account and I couldn't, it isn't available yet, don't know why. I had to use the British member, and there isn't Spanish subtitles. But I'm watching it with the English subtitles and it's OK, I can understand everything.

Thanks.

 

[fridgemagnet]

One thing though - does anyone else shake hands so often when at their work?

Just a soundtrack of constant clapping.

The handshake thing was brought in with Poch IIRC, it's been spoken about in interviews the reasons why etc, it's been mentioned by reporters covering England games for example and therefore those who don't regularly cover Spurs that they were surprised that all our players would shake their hand and ask their first name if they hadn't met before.

I like that they still do it TBH. If you do a bit of googling you'll find it.

Have to say I thought the managers office would have been a bit bigger, Klopp's at L'Pool's training ground is a ballroom by comparison & the players changing room looks no great shakes either in comparison to what's at the stadium. Going to be difficult to SD in those places.

Senior side at Hotspur way:

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[riggi]

The Dele scene re the toothpaste is something similar me and my lot at Maplin would have spoken about. Just random stuff. You get to know each other. It made it more real to me at least because I relate to those kind of conversations.

There is no problem with it at all.

 

[skiba]

That piece with Sky Sports saying Jose was done and him saying fuck off didn't seem right to me.
The SS side of it sounded like it was read from a script, not a studio discussion.

Heard Sky got pissy about that bit so they had to dub it.

 

[jonnyp]

Have no interest in watching that documentary series but would be funny if someone edited to be like a sitcom with a really bad laugh track and shitty jingle and music. Kinda like this one:

 

[cjbyid]

Just finished ep3. I enjoyed it all so far, just find it so interesting getting a behind the scenes look at how the club runs.

Did find the Jan parts a bit sad though in ep3, he seemed so settled in London.

 

[C0YS]

The Sissoko as a leader thing just goes to show you why the first target Mourinho identified for this summer was Hojbjerg way back in January.

Sissoko is a highly influential figure. and I knew this before the doc came out. Because he looks after new players and helps them grow and settle. He also comes across a very authoritative voice. There is a reason he captained Newcastle. He's not loud, but that's irrelevant.

Sissoko's off the field work is absolutely to the benefit of the club and you can easily see that in stuff that is released on the tottenham youtube channel. Him really trying to push Ndombele to open up with his English and it's heavily implied that he has also helped Aurier become embedded in the squad. I mean I can't speculate too much, but plenty of evidence to suggest both his influence and why he is respected and influential.

There needs to be a separation between perception that comes from how people play on the pitch and how they work in a dressing room. Sissoko being a leadership figure will not in any shape or form change by bringing in someone like Hojbjerg. Because it's about social dynamics and how people fit within those dynamics, and that doesn't just change by bringing in someone a bit more vocal. It's not a problem that Sissoko is a leadership figure, ideally you want a team stacked with them.

 

[lis spur]

Levy is bizarre ,doesn't convince about his love for the game never mind Spurs.His conversations with Jose are like some weird pervy uncle thing!!!

 

[popstar7]

It's like he feels his image with the fans is a bit cold and aloof and he's overcompensating.

 

[Spurrific]

The Dele scene re the toothpaste is something similar me and my lot at Maplin would have spoken about. Just random stuff. You get to know each other. It made it more real to me at least because I relate to those kind of conversations.

Looking forward to, ‘All or Nothing: Crawley Maplin’

 

[myhartlane]

Have to say I thought the managers office would have been a bit bigger, Klopp's at L'Pool's training ground is a ballroom by comparison & the players changing room looks no great shakes either in comparison to what's at the stadium. Going to be difficult to SD in those places.

Is a dressing room supposed to be luxurious? I’d say that a spartan environment would be better preparation for battle.
The players are paid enough money to buy their own luxury.

 

[wizgell]

Because when they started filming it was already going down the shitter?

They started filming the day of Bayern, our worst European result in history and yet we see nothing of the internal enquiry. I was told by the Amazon crew I met that being at the training ground it was clear something wasn't right amongst the players/manager and yet we see none of that?