Ange: Forest Regrets, Spurs Chaos & Beating United in Europe | Stick to Football 117
Stick to Football
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Stick to Football, brought to you by ARNE.
After last week’s blockbuster episode, Ange Postecoglou returns to join Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Roy Keane, Jill Scott and Ian Wright for a deeper look at his life in and out of football.
Ange reflects on his upbringing in Australia after his family moved from Greece, how that shaped him, and where his love for the game truly began.
The conversation then turns to his coaching journey, from developing his bold tactical identity at Tottenham to his short spell at Nottingham Forest. Does he regret taking the job at the City Ground, and would he make the same decision again?
We also revisit his time at Spurs, including winning the Europa League against Manchester United, managing top players like Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero, and how he views both the highs and the setbacks.
Celtic, VAR and what comes next in his career are all up for discussion, as well as his view that the Manchester United job is “the hardest in football”.
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00:00 - Intro
03:49 - Press Conferences & Media Criticism
15:08 - Ange’s Upbringing in Australia
34:27 - Building his System
42:51 - Forest Job and Regrets
1:06:15 - Spurs Reflection
1:17:29 - Ange’s Problems with the Game
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| 0:00.0 | Just before we get started, a quick thanks to our partners and clothing. |
| 0:04.1 | We hope you enjoy the show. |
| 0:10.1 | Are you working on the World Cup, Ange? |
| 0:12.7 | Sort of thinking about it, yeah, yeah, because I don't know what I'm doing work wise. |
| 0:17.7 | For ITV again or for? |
| 0:19.0 | Not sure, yeah. It's kind of disgusting, yeah. |
| 0:22.8 | Did you enjoy the last one? |
| 0:24.5 | I don't mind it. |
| 0:25.5 | I don't like kind of the in-between, |
| 0:29.8 | like filling up your time between. |
| 0:31.6 | So there's games on, it's all right. |
| 0:33.7 | But, you know, I don't mind. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm kind of an introvert by nature, but football-wise, I can talk. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.7 | You have to see his tea? |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, I'll have a tea. Thank you, man. |
| 0:46.7 | Do you know something, Andrews? |
| 0:47.8 | I was thinking about that, you know. |
| 0:49.6 | Thanks, man. |
| 0:50.4 | It's more than hammer him, to be fair. |
| 0:53.1 | If you're playing Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, you're doing Friday interviews, you're doing Saturday after the game, you're doing Tuesday before the game, you're doing Wednesday night after the game, you're doing Friday before the Saturday. And I just did it for four months, and we had, believe it, we're in the Europa League, and the Coppardelle Ray. And I remember it was killing me. I said this you before, Anna. Those six in, six press conferences a week were killing. I did 130 something last year. Wow. Because we had 60 games. So I did pre, post. Post, you could do four or five. Yeah. And sort of the individual ones. So I would have done between 130, mate you know what it drains you don't it it does and you're gonna say some stupid things in there but you're not always gonna get it right you know we're talking about when you're playing Saturday Wednesday Saturday as a manager honestly he did 130 press conferences last year because he did 60 games, the Europa League. |
| 1:45.1 | I remember, to be fair, you were at one of my last press conferences. |
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