Ange Postecoglou reflects on his time at Tottenham | Australian Football Icon (25.03.26)

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We can't be the only ones thinking,

if only that had the courage to see it through, can we?

Does that sort of sit with you at all?

Yeah, well, I mean, I don't know, sort of,

I'm not really sure how I feel about it.

I think I've said already,

it was just a strange one for me

because I remember when I took over,

it was one of those things where,

everyone was kind of saying,

well, this club needs a trophy, if it's nothing else,

it's got a break.

You know, they've never really got across the line.

No trophy for 17 years,

no European trophy for 40 years.

You know, I was pretty tunnel vision in saying,

okay, well, we need to deliver this.

So you kind of get to that space, we deliver it.

Yeah, last year, I'm seeing the league was a struggle

for a number of reasons.

We had some injuries and disruptions.

And obviously, we kind of turned our eyes towards winning

the Europa League towards the back end of the year

because I think the reward of that, it wasn't,

I mean, obviously, the obvious one was the trophy

and what that did for the club, for the supporters,

I mean, we had an unbelievable three days

of the winning bill bowed in the trophy parade.

I'd do the streets of London,

North London packed with a couple hundred thousand people.

So it was just surreal, it was just unbelievable.

But also, it made champions league football this year,

and champions league money, which made you good.

So I couldn't, you know, I still don't understand,

you know, I think the club sort of in the end

said, well, you know, the league form wasn't good enough.

But if that was the reason,

I probably should have got rid of me halfway through last year,

you know, so like we'd gone a struggle through league

because of the injuries, pretty much the whole season.

So it just didn't make sense for me.

And I think then they've gone for a real hard race set

because I mean, Thomas Frank's a fantastic manager

and he's obviously done very well in the Premier League,

but you're done in a totally different direction.

And I just didn't see the sense in it after what we'd built.

But, you know, obviously, you know,

they got their reasons for the sort of decision they made.

But, you know, certainly what I was looking at,

what we could have accomplished this year,

I really felt we got over the hard bit

and, you know, we could really sort of push forward this year.

The miracle in bill bow.

So that game was shown on Channel 9 back here.

We all had a stake in it.

The scenes that followed thereafter.

What does it mean to you, Ange,

for all that you have achieved?

To the euphoria went around that

and really the release of a downtrodden people

who had finally felt like they were chosen.

What were, I know it ends badly a few weeks later,

but what does that mean to you?

Yeah, it does, it means a lot.

It meant a lot at the time and it's meant a lot subsequent

because, I mean, obviously, we still live in London.

And, you know, there isn't a day it goes by

where I'm, you know, walking somewhere

that a ton of supporters doesn't come up

and give me a hug and tell me it was the best day of their life.

You know, they've got their kids next to them

and I said, well, maybe the birthday of your child

not super-seated, he goes, no, no, no, no.

So you can't know the impact it had on people's lives.

And it's why I just sort of, you know,

really the support of the way this year went

because they didn't have a chance to sort of bask

in that glory for too long.

But it certainly not lost on me what we achieved.

I think it will stand the test of time

in terms of an achievement and even for me personally

because, you know, I mean, I'm most of my works

being done on the other side of the world back home.

And, you know, it started for four years here in Europe

in those four years, you know,

obviously, I've had to success with, you know,

Celtic I was fortunate enough there.

But it's a winning European trophy,

which, you know, other managers will spend their whole career.

It's a very fantastic elite managers

and not get that opportunity to have done that.

Yeah, it is something special.

I've said it's something they'll think

will stand the test of time for myself personally,

but also for the football club.

Did it take every ounce of everything

that you'd learned and honed throughout the years

to be able to do?

And more mate, and more.

It was just, I mean, it's hard to describe the people,

but, you know, we're calling you sort of

from probably February onwards the last three months.

We've made the knockout stages off,

but there was a real narrow path for us to win this thing.

I really felt we could win it,

but it had to be at the expense of the league form

and other things.

And I remember, you know, after every game,

or, you know, we'd have a debrief of the coaches

and I just said, look boys, we're,

we're just gonna keep copying it every week here

because we're, you know, we're gonna struggle in the league.

Everyone's focus is on this thing.

So we just gotta be prepared to really take as many punches

as we can, on a weekly basis without getting knocked out

because I really think they're surprised at the end of for us.

And it wasn't easy, you know,

because it's only natural that people would get sort of influenced

by outside noise and the negativity

and, you know, people sort of

painting a bleak picture of what was happening,

but to the credit of the players and the staff

in particular, the football staff,

it was just almost like we put ourselves in this cocoon

and, you know, I'll build, you know,

the best sort of, sort of shield for us as a group,

the strongest possible shield I could come up with

to make sure that we could win this thing.

And I knew we could win it.

I was absolutely convinced he was gonna happen.

How did you convince your players to shed all the history

of spursy and the like

and to be able to get it done on that famous night?

I think by really painting that picture,

you know, you know, I've said sort of publicly,

there's, you know, outside the Tottenham dressing room

at the home ground, there's all pictures of past teams

and past players on the wall.

And I took the boys for a walk there

and I just sent them what they noticed.

And, you know, they all kind of looked around

and had a look and I said, you know,

I think one of them said, well,

they're all in black and white

and I said, well, that tells you something doesn't it

because that's how long ago it was.

And I also said he was not up there

and Harry Cade wasn't up there,

greatest player of the clubs ever had.

It's not up there because he hasn't won anything.

It was just the winning teams

around this teams of one trophies.

You know, Sunny who's a captain,

I said, you're not up there, Sunny.

And if you want to get up there, there's only one way.

So I kind of tried to sell them this legacy piece,

which, and it wasn't a sell.

It was really something for them to cling on when things got

when things got tough that we could create something

really special here.

You know, we could be the group of players

that breaks that spursy tag.

And whenever something happens the first time,

it never gets forgotten.

So, you know, I think there was a real legacy piece there

that I could sort of can insupply as with.

And they saw me every week,

running up to every press conference

and talk about Cop and Blows.

I was, they were given it to me left-right and center

and apply a soul that I never flinched at any time, you know?

I'll kind of back them in all the way and the staff

never threw anyone under the bus.

I'll think, how far it'll turn,

they'd type me back in spites.

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