Spurs in full cry here.

Look at all!

Bye-bye! Welcome, listeners to the extra inch.

And I'm joined by Alex Stoyle, a sports psychologist who I cannot wait to talk to about all things sports psychology.

Alex, how the devil are you?

I'm good, thank you, Chris. How are you?

I'm really, really looking forward to our chat.

Let's start off by talking about your credentials, firstly as a sport psychologist and secondly as a Spurs fan.

So you are a PhD candidate doing

professional doctorate in sports and exercise psychology yeah that's correct

yeah so doing that down at the well University of Portsmouth although

obviously given the situation at the moment I'm actually not there very much

at the time I'm London based and doing remotely yeah the time. I'm London-based and doing remotely. Yeah, and I have

just come, I've got a master's in sports and exercise psychology and a master's in general

psychology as well. And I'm currently, yeah, doing that professional doctorate, which is a sort of,

yeah, between a sort of three- and six-year path to becoming a is a sort of yeah between a sort of three and six year path

to becoming a fully qualified sort of yeah sports and exercise psychologist along the way

I do sort of supervised training and I'm my sort of area of research within that is

around sort of choking and performance under pressure. So,

in other words, bottling it and potentially we can, yeah, you could maybe draw some conclusions

about my lifetime of being a Spurs fan and my desire to go into the subject of, yeah,

choking under pressure. So far, none of my researchers actually included the word

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