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Son breaks forward.

Oh, wow! What a run!

One of the best goals of his career.

This is Tottenham Hotspur.

A football club that has always believed in flair.

Is Gascoigne gonna have crack?

Oh yes, he is you know. Oh, I say!

Formed over a hundred years ago.

Here comes Greaves. Oh my, what a goal!

Much of its success is in the past.

Spurs have won the fabulous double.

But in the 21st century the club has been transformed.

It's created a team full of global superstars.

Kane, making space.

What a goal!

Dele with the touch.

What control! Simply genius!

And hired a manager that has taken them

to new heights in Europe.

And it's glory, glory Tottenham Hotspur.

This is their first season in a new billion-pound stadium.

Lewandowski, he finds the corner.

A season that will prove to be

one of the most defining in the club's history.

Tonight, Pochettino has been sacked.

Morning, morning.

By being with me, I can help you to explode.

Let's go, Harry. Let's go.

With complete access to the entire club.

Twenty million euros, and reluctantly,

we agree to let you go.

And filmed over a whole season.

Aurier! Oh, what about that!

Where is Dele?

I understood already that you are

a fucking lazy guy in training.

Dele Ali has trapped it and he's still going.

This is what life is really like

inside a top Premier League football club.

First thing, you cope with the pressure.

You are losing two-nil.

Second thing is you believe.

You believe that you can win.

During a season of unprecedented challenges.

How is that red?

Huh? How is that red?

Everything is cancelled.

All Champions League, Europa League,

everything stops.

We are building something really strong.

We are going to be back stronger.

Can Tottenham Hotspur return to the glory years?

The most important thing in life

is courage, honesty, being friends, being family.

Let's go together, boys. Come on!

Ah, how well has he done there?

Will it be make?

Come on!

Or, break?

Well, things are heating up.

You do this. "Oh, fucking hell!"

Yeah 'cos, I'm fucking angry, Eric.

No regrets. No regrets.

You are a nice group of guys, but for 90 minutes

you cannot be nice.

You have to be a bunch of bastards

You are there to win matches, man.

-Hi Dale, how are you? -Hello.

Where are my extra seats that you promised me?

Mark has found you about 200, so far.

-OK. -And he's still going.

Has he spoken to building control yet?

-They are happy with those 200. -OK.

Good. Brilliant. Alright.

Tottenham Hotspur football club is run by chairman Daniel Levy.

-Seem very happy? -Yeah.

I think the perception of me is I'm hard-nosed, stubborn, don't care,

not ambitious.

I think a lot of that isn't fair.

I certainly think I am incredibly ambitious

to improve the team.

They just don't understand how hard is it to get to that place.

-Good. -I think what's important, Chris...

I mean, I put in that email, "Let's brainstorm."

-Absolutely. -We need to build on this momentum.

It's so tactical...

I've run lots of businesses.

Running a football club is the hardest business I've ever run.

Part of Daniel's vision was to rebuild the stadium at White Hart Lane.

A billion-pound project that on completion

is considered to be one of the best sporting arenas in the world.

So the challenge was, what could we do to design

a stadium that really hadn't been built before,

where you could retain the atmosphere at far greater capacity?

Because we were conscious about trying to create a multi-use venue,

we've actually got two pitches.

And for three years, I wooed the NFL

to convince them to be our partner, to play some games here.

The second pitch, which the NFL play on, can also be used for other events,

boxing, concerts and things like that.

It's been a decade of overhaul for Daniel Levy.

As well as planning for a new stadium,

in 2014 he hired his ninth manager,

Mauricio Pochettino.

-Hi, how are you? -How are you?

Yeah, all good.

Very smart.

-Cashmere? -Cashmere.

-Very nice. -Yes, cashmere.

Come and stand with me outside.

From my viewpoint,

there was just something about Mauricio that I liked.

Unbelievable, no?

Can't believe it's Tottenham stadium.

I looked at the way Mauricio was behaving in front of the media

when he was at Southampton, the type of football they were playing.

And in the end the decision has to rest with me,

and... I got lucky.

Twenty seconds to go by my watch.

Pochettino prowls.

On the field, Pochettino revolutionised the team,

their biggest success coming in Amsterdam,

the best moment in the club's recent history.

Dele Alli. They're slipping. They're sliding...

It's in! Spurs are going to the Champions League final

for the first time in their history!

Crazy. Crazy, my friend.

I do not believe it!

Wow.

Just when you thought there were no more twists and turns...

Spurs defy logic.

A last minute goal sent them to the final of the Champions League.

I can't believe it.

I really cannot believe it.

Making the final was not only huge for the fans,

it also earned the club over one hundred million pounds.

It was a huge achievement for Levy and Pochettino.

To play a final, it's... it's amazing.

Origi with a chance.

But in the final, Spurs came up short.

Losing this one-off match had a major impact on the Club.

I think cracks are starting to appear at Tottenham Hotspur.

After losing the Champions League final, it was a bit of a crossroads,

and I think they came back at the start of the season,

and it's almost like, "Well, is that it?"

"What happens now?"

I think picking themselves up again to go again for this campaign,

I think some of the players found that quite difficult.

As the new season approaches,

three key players have issues with their contracts,

with one openly talking of leaving.

You've seen with Christian Eriksen,

you've seen him make that statement he wants to leave.

It's unsettling for the rest of the squad because they expect him to stay,

and to sign a new contract to extend his time at the Club.

And the manager himself questioning his own role,

and the amount of control he has.

I am not in charge. I don't know nothing about

the situation of my player.

I am only coaching them.

Sell, buy players. Extend the contract, don't extend the contract,

I think it is not in my hands.

Maybe the club needs to change my title description now.

You know?

You've got a manager like Mauricio Pochettino

who is a little bit of a throwback.

He's a controlling sort of manager. He doesn't want to be the head coach

working on the training ground. He wants more power than that.

The relationship between the chairman and the manager,

they've both talked about it being very, very strong.

But they're almost like alpha males, butting on occasions.

And I think, sometimes, that does cause a tension.

The engine of the club is the team.

And I hate it when we lose.

I know it's not something I can directly control,

obviously I can influence, by making the right decisions

with the people running our football club.

Football is never two plus two is four.

Never.

Never.

Like we were talking, Jesus, before,

If a house falls down, everyone sees it fall.

But you have to anticipate that the house will fall.

Yeah.

-So, you knew this was coming? -No, we are talking in general.

We are not talking about Tottenham.

The hangover from the Champions League final

seems very real,

as Tottenham have their worst ever start to a season under Pochettino.

Finds Joelinton in space, who scores.

Lovely pass to Ricardo.

The team manage to win just two of their first eight matches.

Here is Podence. He's through for Olympiacos.

Amazing goal!

Mauricio, as a former defender yourself,

does it pain you even more that the team is looking kind of vulnerable at the back?

Every game, I think it is so important to win.

But, of course, the most important is to build our confidence again.

And for many of our players, they are in a tough period, no?

The campaign to qualify for the lucrative knock-out stages

of the Champions League is underway.

Tonight, Spurs face their first real challenge

against one of the top teams in Europe,

German champions, Bayern Munich.

Is this going to be a memorable European night in North London?

The game gets off to a strong start for Spurs.

They're looking to profit. Son's in again!

Manuel Neuer can't stop that one.

Heung-Min Son for Tottenham Hotspur.

But then things quickly change.

Here's an opportunity. Oh, that's fantastic.

Still not clear.

Lewandowski finds the corner.

Serge Gnabry still and that's a really good goal.

Gnabry's in again. Trouble.

Big trouble.

Here's Gnabry, he's on a hat-trick, he's in and he's clinical again.

Lewandowski. Oh, that's brilliant.

He'll fancy another one, Gnabry. And he's got another one.

Oh, my word!

It's going from sublime to ridiculous for Tottenham Hotspur

in the Champions League.

Their biggest ever European defeat.

How the [beep] do you concede seven goals altogether?

That's the biggest margin of defeat suffered by Spurs ever at home--

Huge crushing blow to them and they will suffer a hangover from this.

You can blame us. You can blame the manager.

You can blame the club.

You can blame the pre-season or you can blame a lot of things,

but end of the day, we're just not playing well enough.

It's difficult to answer because it's not about only the manager,

only the players, I mean, it's a lot of things that come together.

So, it's been sad to talk about the poor start, but I mean...

this is really difficult to understand this feeling.

I mean in football, it's very tough to get the confidence

the high, maximum confidence,

and it's so easy to lose it.

Spurs hit the road with back-to-back games on Merseyside.

The first ends with defeat against Liverpool.

And Mo Salah, as he did in the Champions League final,

converts the penalty.

The second, a one-all draw against Everton.

Gary's a Tottenham fan who's called us.

You want to have your say on what's been going on this week?

It's just like watching Sunday pub football, mate.

At the end of the day I think it's the players.

They've just stopped playing for him.

I mean that's scathing if you're saying the Tottenham players

are not trying. They are not playing for the jersey.

-That's a pretty serious statement. -They look like that.

Spurs have now fallen into the bottom half of the table,

a situation unthinkable just a few months ago.

Can I just ask?

You are ten points away from the top four at the moment,

entering a November international break.

At what point can that not get any bigger if you're gonna

have any chance of turning that around over the rest of the season?

I think it's normal.

But you need to start doing something soon.

As of Monday, we launch our own NFL stadium tour experience.

-How are those tours going for the Spurs? -Fantastic.

We've only announced up to mid-January and they're all sold.

When you're running a club of this size,

you know, we now employ some 600 people.

For us, it's our livelihoods, you know, we've got 600 people here

with all their families. They depend on the success of this club,

as do thousands of other people.

So, it's a huge responsibility.

It's another level up from this.

The team arrive in Belgrade for their Champions League group match.

They need to win to give themselves a chance

of qualifying for the knock-out stages.

Mauricio Pochettino prepares to face the world's press,

who have only one question on their lips.

Mauricio, your last game in Belgrade was, kind of, the beginning of an era,

but now it feels like the end of an era.

Am I wrong?

I hope, yes. I hope, yes.

You don't want to finish your job at Spurs anytime soon?

I hope not.

I still have three more years on the contract.

I hope to finish the contract.

Pochettino will send his team out to play in front of a 55,000 sell-out crowd

at Red Star's Rajko Mitic Stadium.

The players will be greeted by one of the most hostile atmospheres

in world football.

...fuck you!

Tottenham... fuck you!

Tottenham... fuck you!

Tottenham... fuck you!

Performances ain't been good enough for one reason or another.

From a player's point of view,

you're trying to do your best on the pitch every game.

And I think with Mauricio,

you really want to play for him, work for him and improve.

You don't want to let him down.

Lo Celso has found Harry Kane... who hits the post.

And Son is denied on the line.

And Kane again.

And Son again.

And finally it's in.

Lo Celso is embraced,

and he has some sort of crazy goal.

We are playing. We are on the pitch.

So we have to try to win this game for the manager because...

we don't want him to be sacked.

And he's rolled it in for Dele Alli, and Alli has found Son,

and Son has lashed it into the roof of the net.

It's been incredible, I mean, I'm so grateful for what he's done

for this club and for me and for the players.

Off goes Rose. Oh, that's beautifully weighted.

Rose for Son, three-nil.

Brilliant. That is absolutely brilliant.

A lot of us have spent a long time here with him.

We all have our 100% trust in him and we always will, I think.

You know, he's proven.

Here's Eriksen...

he's squeezed it in and Spurs have four on the European road.

Spurs have got to build on this performance, they really have.

-Could be a turning point? -Let's hope it is for Tottenham.

I really do.

That's a wonderful performance.

The win in Belgrade keeps Spurs alive in the Champions League.

But a few days later in the Premier League.

Spurs just look slightly flustered at the moment.

Pochettino can't seem to stop Tottenham's decline.

McGoldrick.

They have options here. And it's fizzed across goal and it's in.

Sheffield United with twelve and a half minutes to go have levelled.

Another draw at home against newly promoted Sheffield United

means that Spurs have won just once in the last six league games.

leaving them in fourteenth place, seven points off the bottom of the table.

What an incredible story.

Mauricio Pochettino has been sacked after five and a half years--

Tottenham Hotspur have sacked their head coach,

Mauricio Pochettino, after five years--

The footballing world has been shocked by this announcement.

Tonight, Pochettino has been sacked.

It will obviously shock the football world,

but, unfortunately, Tottenham cannot stand still.

They've looked at it and thought, "Where's Tottenham going at the minute?

That's not gonna pay the bills."

I can't believe what people are saying about Pochettino.

He took us within a hair's breadth of winning the Champions League

with a very young squad.

Playing for Tottenham, playing for Potch, that incentive is gone.

They're not going out on a limb like they were

over the last two or three seasons.

And I've said before, the owners want silverware,

that's something they've got to have at Tottenham.

Mauricio Pochettino

he's magic, you know.

How did you get to this decision?

A lot of heartache is the honest answer.

Listen, it's never easy when you have to ask somebody to leave,

leave the club, when you've been working

with somebody for five and a half years.

It's difficult and...

My heart was telling me, "Don't do it."

And my brain was telling me I needed to do it.

It was the most emotional decision I've ever had to make.

It was more than just, if you like, an employee-employer relationship.

You know, we went away together.

We had a lot of fun times outside the club.

So, I'm sure after a little while, maybe we'll continue doing that,

I think at the moment things are a little bit raw,

which is understandable, mixed emotions.

Listen, it's not a nice experience for either of us.

Everyone's going to have different opinions.

The facts are the results weren't where they needed to be.

You know, we have to do what we feel is right for the club.

Only time will tell if it's the right decision.

I just want to do the paperwork--

Literally, we need two seconds for Daniel to sign.

-We'll do it here. -Yeah.

-Morning, morning. -Morning.

-Last page. 45 pages. -Yeah. The 45 page book.

-We did well to keep it quiet didn't we? -Really good.

That is not an easy job.

-That's it? -Congrats, well done.

Thank you very much, well done. Thanks, guys.

Well done.

Good luck with it all. Good luck with it all.

Here we go.

I didn't know I had so many friends at Manchester United.

Lots of... really. Lots of nice messages.

Shake hands. Yeah, perfect.

There are in my mind two top, top coaches in the world.

One of them is at another Premier League club.

And the other one is José.

Perfect.

It's like a wedding.

José Mourinho has won 25 trophies in his career,

but he's been sacked from his last two jobs in the Premier League.

He said that people have perceptions of you.

What do they say?

The guy never smiles.

The guy is ruthless.

I think this is the perception.

What's the truth?

The truth is that there is some truth in it.

There is some truth in it.

But at the same time I can be also very different.

When I feel in my intimacy, in my close circles

and my close circles are my friends,

my family, my club.

For the first time in five and half years,

the players are reporting for work under a new manager.

I always say,

"I am only difficult for the ones that don't share my principals."

Afternoon, guys.

It's not give 75% of you, even 95% of you,

all in, you must give 100%.

So the people that share this principal with me,

no problems at all.

-You good? -Hey, bro.

Good.

-Son, all good? -You alright?

My friend, we've been here for five and a half years, we're used to,

all his habits, we're used to, you know.

I spoke to him last night.

Apparently, they knew already, no?

-No. -No?

The chairman came in and said, "Can I talk?"

"You're being sacked, you need to pack your things,

and you leave tonight."

Since joining Porto as manager in 2002,

José Mourinho has won trophies at every single club he has managed.

Tottenham will be hoping his incredible run continues.

You have to turn one chapter and open a new one.

And with José Mourinho,

one of the most successful and one of the biggest managers of the last 20 years.

I take it like an amazing opportunity to work with him.

If there was a manager that I always wanted to work with,

of course, it was Mourinho.

I think he's the most tactical manager there is.

I think one of the best in the world. It's a privilege.

How are they gonna approach training? Do you reckon they’ll just be on us

straightaway, or they’ll like ease in?

I reckon it's gonna be so tactical.

Never seen so much coverage before.

Went on Sky Sports, everything... everything was there.

Twitter... Instagram, Daily Mail...

Pochettino leaving Spurs is causing quite a stir on social media.

I don't think I've ever seen such a strong response

to a manager being sacked.

It's incredible. Personally, I'm surprised they got rid of him.

But I'm more surprised by José coming in.

Is that really the football that Tottenham want to play?

I don't agree to be honest.

He's won trophies at every club he's been to.

You know, the Champions League, La Liga, Premier League...

Everywhere.

No, I'm telling you Mourinho is passed his best.

-Look what happened in United-- -Fuck off.

José Mourinho has just 72 hours to prepare for Tottenham's next game.

A tough London derby, away, at West Ham United.

Not much time to decide on his team

and his tactics.

For the players,

it's time to find out what life is like under José Mourinho.

I'm interested actually in the contrasting styles of both managers.

It will be interesting to see how the players handle it

because they are, make no mistake about it,

they are completely different characters, Pochettino and Mourinho.

José Mourinho being appointed manager of Spurs

changes the culture and the way they do things completely.

And he's exactly what they need because they are so starved of success.

They've been feebly tapping at the door of the elite level under Pochettino.

José Mourinho smashes that door down.

We start together. We come together one minute.

OK so quick, quick, quick.

-This guy is Joao Pedro. -Hi.

Goalkeeper coach is Nuno.

Carlos is the fitness guy.

Ricardo analyses and gives us support on the pitch too.

OK. Let's go.

Too many holidays.

Too many football matches watching from spaces where I don't belong.

I don't belong to the box. I don't belong to the stands.

I don't even belong to the sofa of my house.

I belong to the game.

Keep moving, Harry. Keep moving. Good.

Yep. Come on. Good, Moussa.

Bang. Yes.

I was empty. I needed my place.

Good control. Good, Winks.

-This kid, Winks, is Harry Winks, no? -Harry, yeah. Si.

So how do you call the guy?

-Winksy -Because the other one is Harry?

-Yeah, Winksy. -OK.

Good kid, good kid. Well done. Good progression, Walker.

Walker or Peters? What do you like?

-Walker-Peters. -Both? It's too long, man.

It's too long for me.

The more I know them, the better I can interact.

I have to show the players the person I am,

the manager I am, and to make the players believe in me,

and to work with me good as soon as possible.

Good.

Good. Good, Harry.

Fucking hell I am in great form, man.

Ay. Hep.

Come on Dele, move around the man.

You are too slow.

Want the ball. Want the ball, Dele.

There is people that only like to have the positive feedback

and my feedback is normally feedback without the filter.

Players, they know that for good or for bad

the guy is genuine.

And that's the way I am.

OK. We stop. OK.

Turn to the side.

-How do I say your name correctly? -Tanganga.

-Tanganga? -Yeah.

-I hate to tell the wrong names, man. -It's alright, man.

Everybody says my name wrong

because I am not José, José is Argentinian, I'm not Argentinian.

Everybody calls me José, I'm not José, I'm José.

-Fucking lazy. -Who, me?

I'm going to be a pain in the arse on you.

-OK. -And, you are lucky.

You are lucky because when I'm a pain in the arse

it's a good thing. Come on, kid.

Go home. Tomorrow morning, breakfast, come to me.

OK.

-Breakfast, come to my office next door. -OK.

-No problem. -Go home.

-Two kids? -Yes.

Go home. If you go late, they are sleeping.

It's true, OK.

But there must be something wrong with this team because I play against you

so many times and nobody insulting me,

in the tunnel or nothing, man.

You must be too good.

Day two for José Mourinho,

and he's called in star striker, England captain Harry Kane, for a one-to-one.

Very simple.

I believe that you had a very good relation with Mauricio.

Yep.

I love that.

I always think good relationship with the previous man,

then why not a good relation with me? -Yeah.

So I see you training yesterday, I have no doubts that

you are a giver. That's my feeling.

The world looks to English football with incredible respect,

but they still think that the movie stars of football,

-they belong to other places. -Yeah.

And I think we have, we have to build also

your status in that direction.

-Yeah. -My profile, I am a little bit

-I know. -I am a little bit that as a coach.

The reality is that

my dimension is universal.

And by being with me, I think I can help you to--

Yeah, that's my aim, you know.

When you're at a club like Tottenham, of course, we've done well,

personally, I've done well...

-but it's not enough. -I want to be Ronaldo and Messi.

Yes.

What I don't accept, because that's my fucking nature,

I don't accept to be here...

doing, winning nothing. Fucking hell. I don't,

but I feel that we can. -Yeah.

Because of you. You know, you have better players

than I had at Manchester United.

So I think the club has a lot to explode.

-Yep. -I'm here.

-I appreciate that. -OK?

Good.

One of the things that caught my attention was

they say that Sissoko has great influence in the changing room.

Fuck.

They said Vertonghen is a warrior.

He is a guy that when he is injured

he always wants to train and wants to play and that.

He goes to the limit.

What they have been telling me, what I’ve been gathering is basically that

it’s a team that’s too nice.

Even in competition they are too nice.

-Nice boys. -Nice boys.

They say Dier is the only guy

who likes living the conflict during the game.

Harry Kane is a silent leader.

A leader by example.

The professional leader who works well

and everyone looks to him and sees how the guy works.

Yes. Let's go, Harry. Let's go.

Sonny. Yes, Sonny.

Yes, go on.

Well done, man.

-Davinson, you have balls? -No.

-You have balls. -Big.

When you played the final against me with Ajax

everybody shit yourself.

We compact the block.

I won the game, minute one.

Everything alright? Good training session?

-Yes, very good. -Yeah?

We trained tactically today.

Good idea because I think they feel comfortable.

As with any change, there will always be winners and losers.

I told already Dele very directly.

He doesn't train well. He's not a good trainer.

I'm not saying a disaster, but I'm not saying a Harry Kane.

You know, Harry Kane trains well.

He was in England. He's not an England player.

Not in England. You know, Euros in six months and...

Two years ago and he was here.

Sir Alex Ferguson told me, gave me only one advice

in two and half years.

"Buy Dele Alli."

"That guy, that mentality, the way he plays,

the aggression he has in his mind.

This guy is the Manchester United player.

Buy that guy."

And he has an eye for players and he took Dele Alli.

But he's not a good trainer.

We need to find the right motivation for the guy.

Good. Alright. So far, so good.

-Boss, see you later, thank you. -See you later.

It's the night before the West Ham game.

The players gather in the tactics room

to find out who's made José's starting eleven.

It's difficult for me because I have to start with eleven.

I have to choose seven more to be on the bench.

Some of you stay at home.

I think it's always a bad feeling,

but I think it's even a worse feeling when

a new guy comes and leaves me on the bench,

a new guy comes and leave me at home.

"I'm fucked, the guy doesn't like me."

I know that it's always a shit feeling.

I just ask you to trust me

and to believe me.

The day I am not happy with any player, the day I do not believe in a player,

the day I want a player to leave as soon as possible,

you will not feel it. You will know from me.

OK. I give the team now, I think it's the best.

Serge.

Sanchez.

Toby.

Davies.

Son.

Kane.

Lucas.

Dier.

Winks.

Dele.

This is the team that starts.

If you receive it facing the player--

Stop now.

Fast ball. Fast ball and in the space.

OK, again, training.

I understood already. Where is Dele?

I understood already that you are a fucking lazy guy in training.

I don't need more days lazy but

lazy pass.

You know, bang.

If this pass is fast and in the space, goodbye.

Very important, communication.

You need to communicate.

And maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong,

I feel that you are, honestly, a very nice group of guys,

but for 90 minutes,

for 90 minutes you cannot be nice.

For 90 minutes, you have to be a bunch of [beep],

of intelligent [beep].

Not stupid [beep].

Bastards in the sense that you are there to win matches, man.

Fucking hell. We have to win.

We win tomorrow and Chelsea lose in Man City.

They shit themselves. Nine points, nine points.

They come here in December, they shit themselves.

We can make top four.

Go with everything.

Fucking hell. No pressure.

I wouldn't come here if you were not as good as you are.

No chance. Fucking hell.

Let's go.

Tottenham have not won a league match away from home in ten months.

They're currently 14th in the table.

West Ham and their 60,000 fans

will be desperate to spoil José's first match in charge.

Come on, Come on, Come on, Come on, Come on.

Come on.

Nothing that can happen in a game can affect your confidence.

Nothing.

You are confident. You finish confident.

Nothing that can happen in a game can fuck your confidence.

Nothing, nothing.

Hey lads, get a reaction when together.

Clean slate. Fucking win this game.

We've got a fucking good run at it. Now let's fucking perform.

José Mourinho's time as manager of Tottenham Hotspur begins

so strap yourself in and let's see what happens.

It's not just about playing football or coaching football.

It's about winning.

If we don't win, it's an empty,

it's an empty career.

You like winning?

I hate losing.

Son.

The first goal of the José Mourinho era.

Goal! There you go!

Every club he's been to, he's won.

It's a unique situation.

-Oh, my God. -Oh, they're José Mourinho's.

Serge, I am afraid of you as a man.

Because you are capable of giving a fucking shit penalty.

Play, play, play, play. Feel free to play.

-Come on then, let's fucking win it! -Come on, lads!