Tottenham are in talks with Amazon over a fly-on-the-wall documentary to be broadcast next summer, according to the Daily Mail, and some fans aren’t best pleased.
If it goes ahead it would give Amazon ‘unrivalled’ access to the club and it would follow in the footsteps of the successful Man City documentary last season.
The remit of the documentary would take in the Tottenham first-team squad over the rest of the season but also the building of the new stadium and how that affected the local community, plus Tottenham’s NFL connection.
The film crew would have access to the Tottenham dressing room and board room.
You would think that a multi-million-pound new documentary with Amazon production values would be the stuff that dreams are made of for fans but that’s not the case.
Here are the best reactions from disgruntled Tottenham fans on Twitter:
Loooool imagine this
— Tøm (@TomCOYS) September 25, 2019
No no no no no. Please no.
— Sponge-Stan (@DaveCharging) September 25, 2019
This would be unreal comedy ????????????
— Yidss (@RaeburnYid) September 26, 2019
Documenting what? How much of a bottle job team we are?
— MoussaSissokoTheGoat (@clinicalsissoko) September 25, 2019
Literally the last thing this team needs.
— John Box (@JohnRBox) September 26, 2019
The main problem from the fans’ point of view is the timing.
Tottenham haven’t had a good start to the season and were dumped out of the Carabao Cup by League 2 Colchester on Tuesday night.
That leaves their record since mid-February reading: Played 26, won 8, drawn 6 and lost 12.
That’s not the record of a top-four club and manager Mauricio Pochettino has been complaining about an unsettled Spurs squad and hinted again this week that he would like to manage Real Madrid one day.
Fans think a documentary on the back of this would be a disaster.
From an Amazon point of view, though, this would seem like the perfect backdrop for a compelling real-life drama.
Poch wouldn’t allow this
— Kevin Gower © (@KGower83) September 25, 2019
One fan said that Pochettino “wouldn’t allow this”. But, according to the Daily Mail report, the players know about it and the manager has given his blessing.
Given that Pochettino has been quite frank with his views in front of the cameras recently, we wonder if this is such a good idea.
Well, this sounds like a terrible idea just now
— Phil de Semlyen (@PhildeSemlyen) September 25, 2019
Just what we need…
— Gareth Davies (@Gareth_Davies09) September 25, 2019
Please no … bad enuf watching the mess live let alone an inquest next summer
— steve pope (@coys1111) September 25, 2019
Episode 1: Levy in his office counting money
Episode 2: Ditto
Episode 3: Poch wants painful rebuild
Episode 4: Levy explains we tried to sign someone but just couldn’t get it done
Episode 5: Poch is happy with squad
Episode 6: Spurs lose again
The End— John Thorpe (@johnty63) September 25, 2019