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.
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The most important thing...
Courage.
Honesty.
Family.
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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.
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.
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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.