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00:00Hello.
00:17Legendary Australian football coach Ange Postacoglu made global headlines recently when he led
00:22Tottenham Hotspur to victory in the Europa League.
00:26It was an incredible moment in a dramatic and at times controversial career.
00:32As Spurs manager, he's copped plenty of criticism, but he won back many fans with that win.
00:38Australian Stories caught up with Ange over the years, and we spoke to him exclusively
00:43just a few days ago to hear about his hard road to the top.
00:48The Ange Postacoglu story is pretty unbelievable.
00:55His achievement is actually, it's sort of impossible.
00:59The biggest cheer for the head coach.
01:02A lot of people see Ange at the moment and see the levels that he's got to on a global
01:07scale and massive profile globally, but humble beginnings in Melbourne.
01:13He clearly cares about the game.
01:20You get the sense of a very good human, and not all people in football are that.
01:27I think he's redefined the possibilities for all Australian coaches.
01:31He's stepped into a world that we've always seen as the realm of other, the realm of the
01:36great coaches.
01:38Emotionally, over the last 12 months especially, I think it has been tough for Ange at Tottenham.
01:44But knowing Ange, you put his back to the ropes, he will come out stronger than ever.
01:49It's when I'm at my best, because I love pushing through that stuff.
01:55It's an opportunity to convince more that I haven't got here by accident.
02:03He's driven to win.
02:04He's driven to succeed.
02:05He's driven for his teams to be the best they can be.
02:10It's going to be an absolutely crazy day here in Bilbao.
02:25Come on, you f***ers brothers.
02:30In the lead up to the Europa League final, the energy and the excitement in Bilbao was
02:35palpable.
02:40We went over to Bilbao, myself, a few of our closest mates, Ange's family.
02:46The city was abuzz with just fans coming in from everywhere.
02:51For Spurs fans, it was very much about, you save your season, you save everything.
02:59Getting into the final, there was a newspaper column which said that Ange would either be
03:03a hero or a clown, depending on the result of this one game.
03:07The same journalist asked a question of Ange at his press conference before the Europa Cup
03:11final.
03:12If you win, this is going to be remembered as one of the best seasons in the club's modern
03:15history.
03:16But if you lose, it might be remembered for one of the worst league seasons in the club's
03:20modern history.
03:21That depends on your outlook, Dan, but I'll tell you one thing, irrespective of tomorrow,
03:25I'm not a clown.
03:26I never will be, mate.
03:27That clearly rankled with him.
03:29He bit at that.
03:30And I think it showed, to a degree, the pressure it is under.
03:33I'm a human being.
03:34Do I get angry sometimes?
03:35Do I get frustrated?
03:36Do I get disappointed?
03:37Of course I do.
03:38But what I will do, though, is always call out people who I think have got it wrong.
03:45The Purs hadn't won anything for a long time in 17 years.
03:47They hadn't won a European trophy for over 40 years.
03:50And so the pressure is enormous, there are massive stakes.
03:55When Ange walked out onto the field for the Europa League final, I don't think it'd be
03:59a leap too far to say this was the biggest game of his life.
04:06But wherever your footballer regions rise, the chances are, I think, that you've probably
04:12watched some soccer, possibly on television.
04:15It wasn't cool to play soccer when Ange and I were growing up.
04:19Yeah, it was pretty simply called either kiss chasey or wog ball.
04:24Kiss chasey, you know, after the boys score a goal, everyone would be hugging and kissy,
04:28which dare I say they're doing that now in AFL for fun.
04:32And wog ball because only the ethnics played it.
04:37We grew up in Athens.
04:39I guess at the time wasn't a pleasant place to be.
04:42Dad, he had a business that unfortunately was a change in government and the military
04:46moving in.
04:47He lost.
04:48You know, we came over here when I was five and, you know, it was obviously a massive
04:51move.
04:52They obviously came here to give me and my sister a better life.
04:55As a kid, I just wanted to fit in.
04:57So I didn't necessarily like the fact that I came from another country and, you know, I
05:02had a really long surname that no one could sort of get their mouth around.
05:07And I guess for a young boy, the best way to fit in was sport.
05:11I remember this skinny kid with the blonde light hairs, which is very un-Greek, just
05:15absolutely fiercely darting in and just really competitive.
05:18And I remember thinking, oh, this kid's standing out.
05:21On a Sunday, there was two places of worship for anyone of Greek origin.
05:28In the morning you'd go to church and in the afternoon you'd go to the football.
05:32South Melbourne was the club of the Greek community.
05:35The clubs were basically based around the ethnic groups, the immigrant communities.
05:39These little clubs were really strong pillars in each community, just providing comfort and
05:49support to people who had made a pretty big decision to come to a new country.
05:55When Ange was old enough, Dad enrolled him at the junior development at South Melbourne.
06:02My father, he loved football and he'd drive me to training.
06:05We'd have half an hour in the car.
06:07You know, me and my dad was, you know, for a boy, that's what I was after.
06:13Very quickly, the whole game just consumed me from then on.
06:16He was like a sponge, so anything to do with soccer he absorbed.
06:21He would sit in on conversations with older people as they discussed it.
06:25He would watch what little television there was in those days, magazines, books, stories,
06:32anything.
06:33And he writes, that's a run forward, just chipping that one inside, looking there for Trimboli.
06:37Here's Postacoglu, and there's the equaliser from Angelo Postacoglu.
06:41I first spotted Ange when, in the mid-80s, he came through as a young player with South Melbourne.
06:46He had a long mullet flying behind his head as he galloped up the field.
06:53He was an attacking player, very, very quick.
06:55Right with the cross.
06:56Postacoglu with the header.
06:58Angelo Postacoglu.
07:00When I turned up, he was already captain of the club at 21.
07:04That's his fourth goal of the year.
07:06South Melbourne had a massive expectation.
07:09The Greeks would pack in there, and God forbid if we drew a game or lost a game.
07:14Dangerous play from Angie Postacoglu.
07:17And he went on to have a terrific career there.
07:19He captained the Tour Championship, played in a couple of championships as a player.
07:23South Melbourne, the National League champions for the second time.
07:28And then went on to coach at South Melbourne as well, and then going on to be a legend of the club.
07:33We'll see everyone back at the South Melbourne Social Club, OK?
07:36Well done.
07:38After the successes of South Melbourne, Ange was eventually offered to coach the Australian youth teams.
07:43I would now get to challenge myself internationally, not just domestically, and I was looking forward to it.
07:50It was an international role, something he thought was a springboard to greater things.
07:57But I think quickly he found he couldn't be his own man.
08:00He had to sort of play other people's agendas, and he felt bogged down by that.
08:05By 2005, I didn't coach well because I started worrying about all this pressure that was intensifying over the fact that we hadn't got results at youth level for a few years.
08:15A lot of uncertainty, almost a dark cloud over where I was heading in a professional sense.
08:20In late 2006, Ange Postacoglu's Australian youth team failed to qualify for the World Cup, now for the second time.
08:29Thanks for joining us.
08:30We invited Ange onto the World Game Programme to be interviewed, not just by me, but by my colleague Craig Foster.
08:38You're paid to qualify for the players. You're obviously not listening to anything, right?
08:41The interview with Craig went out live, and it's become a bit of an iconic event in Australia.
08:49In Australian football television history.
08:51I don't see anything gone out there.
08:53Listen, what I'm saying is, if I didn't qualify the team twice like you, I'd put my hand up and I'd walk out, because that would happen in most other...
09:00I think the one point that kind of set me off was, you know, he was asking me to resign.
09:05So you're saying I should resign? That's your opinion, is that right?
09:08That's my case. Fine.
09:09Are you going to resign then? That's the next question.
09:11We were straight after doing it. That's all people wanted to talk about, that interview.
09:15And I thought, well, is this what I'm going to be defined for now?
09:19For the first time, I heard him over the phone really distressed.
09:25He was pretty upset and worried about how he was portrayed and what it looked like.
09:32Three months later, he got the sack. So things started to go downhill from then on.
09:37Suddenly he'd gone from the guy that could do no wrong to a guy you couldn't employ.
09:43An opportunity came to coach in Greece and, God bless her, Georgia said, you know, go for it and off we went.
09:50And that's no easy gig. That's a minefield.
09:53But that said to me that he was determined to learn, get better and be the best coach he could be.
09:59When we got back from Greece, Ange still couldn't get a job.
10:05We didn't have a place to live, so we moved back with my mum for about six to eight months.
10:11It was TV work that mainly sustained me.
10:15And then I was doing some bits and pieces with coaching kids and running clinics because I just wanted to keep coaching.
10:21OK, we're on air for offsiders. We're straight out to camera four.
10:27I was worried for Ange when you can't get the opportunity, it's frustrating.
10:30So I saw frustration. What I didn't see through any of that time at all, ever, and I've never seen with Ange, right,
10:36is him questioning his ability.
10:38It's amazing how many times it does happen.
10:42In fact, that period of time, I think over a couple of years, what he developed was this real clear mindset
10:49on what he wanted to do as soon as he got the opportunity.
10:53He knew exactly where he was going to take a team, how he was going to do it,
10:56and transform the way that football was being played.
11:01We were doing a broadcast and half the game I was leaving,
11:05and in front of me was Archie Fraser, who was CEO of the A-League at the time.
11:09I just said to him, look, I'd love to have a crack.
11:12I'd love to get back into coaching and jump desperate.
11:15I think I've got something to offer.
11:17Ange received a phone call from Archie not long after that and said,
11:23is there any way you can get yourself to Brisbane?
11:27The next day, he jumped on the plane and went and met the owners of Brisbane Roar at the time.
11:35And I said, I'm going to do things differently.
11:38If you're happy with what you've got, I'm not your person.
11:41And I sensed in them that they want to change as well.
11:45I wanted to leave a mark.
11:47And part of that was even the way the game was played.
11:50We wanted to be an attacking team.
11:52That sat better with me as a person, my personality.
11:56No opportunity to make mistakes tonight.
11:58And it looked crazy for a while because they were awkward and they would get themselves in trouble.
12:02But they were absolutely determined to play on their own terms and play an attractive,
12:06exciting brand of football to entertain and to win games.
12:09Oh, it's one of the goals of the season!
12:12And eventually, it worked.
12:15It was brilliant to watch.
12:16Stunning stuff from the Roar!
12:18The Brisbane Roar under Ange is the best Australian club team I've ever seen.
12:23Unbelievable!
12:26And this was music to my eyes.
12:29I mean, it was the modern way of playing.
12:32And Brisbane Roar have won the grand final!
12:36Oh, yeah!
12:39They were just really, really happy times.
12:42And we had just gone through a really, you know, pretty shitty time in our lives
12:48that lasted probably a lot longer than we both thought.
12:51It just made the victory even sweeter.
12:54By the second year at Roar, I was agitating for something different again.
13:02That was now my constant driver.
13:07So, we moved back to Melbourne and Ange was the head coach of Melbourne Victory.
13:15At the Melbourne Victory, Ange Postacoglu was doing well.
13:18He was building a quality team.
13:21While at the same time, the Socceroos were at the bottom of the toilet.
13:26There were two internationals played, but Australia got slaughtered 6-0 in each of them.
13:31This morning's heavy defeat to France came after a devastating loss to Brazil only a few weeks ago.
13:38So, they decided to sack the coach.
13:41When the crash came in Paris for the Socceroos, it was quite apparent who the next Socceroos coach could be.
13:47There's only one, really.
13:48And that was Ange.
13:49I think today is a bloody, bloody good day.
13:51And he's on the mission with us to make this sport the largest and most popular in the country.
13:57The opportunity to coach a country.
13:59I didn't think this moment in time would come for me again and, you know, I thought it was a time to take it.
14:06I was super excited for him to have the opportunity, but at the other side, all I could think about was,
14:13Oh no, I'm never going to see my husband.
14:16It's going to be very, very difficult again.
14:19And it's quite lonely.
14:20But, you know, at the same time, I knew that he was ready.
14:24Anyone under three foot is not allowed in here.
14:28There's one thing I can definitely say.
14:30I wouldn't be where I am today without Georgia.
14:32I think through that tough time without her by my side, I'm not sure where I would have ended up.
14:38We hardly see Ange.
14:40And I remember even I was pregnant and Max came three weeks early.
14:47Ange was supposed to fly that day to London.
14:50And I said to him, you can't go.
14:53You're not leaving me to have this child on my own.
14:56You have to change your flight.
14:58Anyway, he did.
14:59He managed to change his flight and Max arrived.
15:03And then the next day he left.
15:05And that's, that's how things work for us.
15:09Today, the Postacoglu plan for Brazil 2014 became clear.
15:13We want to reward form and fitness and also have an eye to the future.
15:17We had a World Cup and an Asia Cup in literally 12 months.
15:20I wanted to win the Asia Cup.
15:22And every decision I made was geared towards that.
15:25I've always told you, if you're in any doubt, you go forward with the ball, just by yourself.
15:29But first, they were going to a World Cup.
15:32And with the whole world watching, I couldn't not be competitive there.
15:38Spain, the world champion.
15:40World champion in B1.
15:42Spain?
15:43B1.
15:44I set my alarm for, I think it was four in the morning around then, and I got up to watch
15:48the World Cup draw.
15:49Australian Air will play Chile.
15:50For the Group C now.
15:51American game with the new manager, Anish Postacoglu.
15:54We got drawn in what was the group of death.
15:57Now we're going up against the best in the world.
16:00I thought, oh my God, how on earth are we going to beat any of these teams?
16:07And James, his son, actually sent him a text and said, this is fantastic.
16:14You know, the whole world's going to be watching your game.
16:17This is your time to shine.
16:19Everyone expected a couple of tennis scores.
16:22Six love, six love.
16:24But something in the team clicked.
16:26I think Anish had taught them to hold their nerve.
16:31World Cup was unbelievable.
16:33I knew exactly what I was doing.
16:34I knew what the team was doing.
16:36We played some of the best football.
16:37We kept the ball.
16:38We rattled teams.
16:40Mentally, physically.
16:44We lost three games.
16:46But that performance in Brazil made me very proud to be an Australian.
16:50Because of their capacity to be willing to have a go and to not fear anyone.
16:58And that's the way I expect Australian teams to play.
17:01He sat us down straight after the last World Cup game.
17:05He said, you know, look, you know, successful tournament.
17:10You know, we did Australia proud.
17:11But our next aim now is the Asian Cup.
17:13Biggest ever football event to be held on these shores.
17:17There's the opening goal from Hussein Farnall.
17:20They started slowly, but then by the end of it, you just sense that this team,
17:23they were ready to, they were ready to change this.
17:26Pranich to check and deliver.
17:28Great ball in.
17:29And what a header.
17:30And it is Massimo Luongo.
17:33And then they saw it right through to the final.
17:35Here we go.
17:36Juric has wrinkled this way.
17:37Clear.
17:38James, the goal.
17:39For Australia.
17:41James Soissi.
17:43That's excellent.
17:45They've done it.
17:46They have done it, Australia.
17:49History created.
17:51That's the most I see.
17:52That move when he starts celebrating it.
17:54It was a pretty good feeling seeing him running around,
17:57bumping his fists in the air, getting into it.
18:00I was a bit worried about his suit because he was stretching it out,
18:04but that's not right, yeah.
18:06It's a funny one in that moment.
18:08You get a huge relief that it's come to fruition.
18:11And I just sit back and I just watch everyone else.
18:13I just, I get a real buzz from seeing people celebrate,
18:16that have worked hard for seeing the satisfaction in their faces
18:21and then, you know, your family, friends, Georgia, James,
18:25you know, that are all in the stadium
18:27and you kind of look for their faces.
18:30I try and soak it up because I know that the next day I'll move on.
18:38In that moment I try and take as much in it
18:40because I know that come the next day I'm already thinking ahead.
18:46I'd love to win a World Cup.
18:48Coming off the Asian Cup, the expectation was very high for the Socceroos.
18:57It's now crunch time for Ange Postakov with men.
19:02I think a big turning point in this campaign came about
19:05when they came out against Iraq, playing the new formation.
19:10He wanted to be more attacking,
19:12but came at a risk of conceding more goals.
19:14A goal to Iraq and a dagger to the Socceroos' hopes
19:18to play next year in Russia.
19:20They had a one-all draw and immediately
19:22he was second-guessed on his tactics.
19:24That's what our shape will look like.
19:26Our three, our box four and our wide guys and our striker.
19:30I change the formation every year.
19:32This sort of conservatism we have of,
19:35OK, we won the Asian Cup, let's just stick with that now
19:37because that worked.
19:38Sport, my sport doesn't work that way
19:42because what worked two years ago is not going to work today.
19:46The Socceroos won their games against Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
19:51Job done and, boy, they needed that.
19:53Then they went to Japan in a game
19:55where they could have booked their place in a World Cup with a victory.
19:58In a good seal!
20:00Japan are through.
20:02They lost 2-0 and subsequently didn't beat Thailand
20:05by enough to qualify automatically.
20:07There's applause mixed with groans of frustration.
20:11The mood immediately after it was almost as if
20:13they'd been eliminated altogether.
20:15I think the fact that we now knew we would have to go through
20:18two sudden death series, that's when the howls for Ange really came.
20:23Serious and pertinent question must be asked
20:25and I think it must be asked by everybody.
20:27It is being asked by everybody.
20:28Is he the right man?
20:29We need a different voice because those players, in my opinion,
20:31regardless of what they say publicly,
20:33are not responding like they used to under him before.
20:37It's make or break time for the Socceroos.
20:40Tonight they'll take on Syria
20:42to determine whether the team will move one step closer to the World Cup.
20:46The Socceroos defeated Syria tonight in a thrilling contest.
20:50Cahill! There it is!
20:52Beat Syria. Beat Honduras home and away.
20:56We've qualified for the World Cup.
20:58Ange, his heart and soul was into having Australia qualify,
21:02but I think in the background there were some things happening
21:04that were causing him some uncertainty.
21:06He didn't want for Australia to just qualify for World Cups.
21:09He actually really believed we should be trying to win them.
21:12So I certainly think those things would have been gnawing away at him.
21:18And then Ange makes the amazing decision
21:21to step away from the Socceroos.
21:23After a great deal of thought and soul-searching,
21:27I've decided that the journey for me ends as Socceroos coach.
21:34It was quite a bombshell.
21:35It was just a feeling of disbelief.
21:37Some put it down as even up a trail.
21:40Probably not the ending I'd envisaged when we started,
21:44but at the same time knowing it's the right time for me.
21:51Ange wanted to imprint his way of football on Australian football.
21:55Whether that support was there ultimately to allow him to be
21:59as successful as what he wanted to be
22:02is probably part of the reason why he made the decision.
22:05I want to wish you good luck and once again say thank you.
22:09I think it was the perfect time in his mind
22:15to take on the next challenge and write the next chapter.
22:22The former Socceroos coach Ange Postacoglu
22:24has revealed his next move.
22:26He's signed on to coach a Japanese club team.
22:29The 52-year-old will now take over the reins at Yokoham.
22:35So Ange goes to Japan.
22:37First year, took some time to imprint his style.
22:40Second year, he wins the championship.
22:46I think it was a defining result for him
22:48because it was outside of the Australian league.
22:51It really put him on a platform on a global basis.
23:00Former Socceroos coach Ange Postacoglu
23:02has been confirmed as the new manager of Scottish Giants Celtic.
23:05Success in Japan means nothing to people in Scotland.
23:10When he arrived, I think most of the reaction was,
23:12who is this guy?
23:13Breaking news coming out of Scotland here
23:15as Celtic have applied for exemption for Yokohama Marina's boss,
23:20Postacoglu.
23:21Was it Postacoglu?
23:22Oh, this has got to be a wind-up.
23:24No.
23:25No.
23:26I grew up in a schoolyard with a long surname in Australia
23:28and trust me, I heard every variation of my surname.
23:31Nothing they were going to say was going to upset me.
23:33On the loose.
23:34Keogor in again!
23:36How quick is that?
23:40At Celtic, he was incredibly successful.
23:42The football that he played was sort of classic.
23:44Ange Ball was very exciting, very dynamic, very attacking.
23:47I think he won five out of six trophies.
23:52If you have real success in Scotland,
23:54then Premier League clubs do look at you.
23:56It is official, Ange Postacoglu has signed on with Tottenham
24:03becoming the first Australian manager in the English Premier League.
24:08So, 2023, Ange gets the Spurs job.
24:12I was kind of lying in my bed as a nine, ten-year-old.
24:14What was the visions I was having?
24:16And Premier League was it for me.
24:19It was where I wanted to see myself one day.
24:22That was the dream for sure.
24:24The Premier League is the biggest league in the world,
24:28no doubt about that.
24:29Highest profile, huge amount of money.
24:33So, that's the cauldron that Ange has gone into.
24:39I had no doubts that for me the mission
24:41when I joined this football club was to win a trophy.
24:45So, Ange impresses upon the club and the playing staff
24:49the way that he wants to play, his style of play.
24:51They term it Ange ball.
24:53It starts off in a rollicking manner.
25:01They then went on this run where they won eight of the first ten.
25:05They were top of the league, unbeaten.
25:08The Spurs fans are loving it.
25:09They start singing songs in the terraces.
25:11It's all going famously well.
25:15It's Big Ange ball.
25:18We've got Robbie Williams, megastar, superstar on Twitter,
25:22coming up with songs about Ange and how good's that.
25:25I'm loving Big Ange instead.
25:30The football was great.
25:32Then there was this game against Chelsea.
25:34And they had two sendings off.
25:36Two of their key players got injured.
25:38Actually, it turned into their season sort of completely unravelling.
25:42And this season, it just never got going.
25:46They've had absolutely terrible injury problems.
25:49But Ange didn't adapt, ever.
25:51He was like, if plan A doesn't work, you do plan A better.
25:53And people are like, but it's not working, Ange.
25:56Like, do something.
25:57And he kept playing this sort of kamikaze football.
26:00Tottenham have made their worst start to a Premier League season
26:04for nine years after losing the North London Derby.
26:07It didn't take long for the media to turn on him.
26:09Postacoglu made the comments that he always wins a trophy
26:12in his second season.
26:14He made big statements, which paints a target on you.
26:17Are you seeing enough in this side that this season
26:20you do think that they will be a side that can win?
26:24I'm talking silverware.
26:26Competing right at the top.
26:27Am I going to answer the question?
26:28Are you going to keep asking it?
26:29No, absolutely.
26:30And I think I'll correct my set.
26:32I don't usually win things.
26:33I always win things in my second year.
26:35That level of confidence
26:37sometimes doesn't go down well with people.
26:39Tottenham Hotspur under Ange Postacoglu are rubbish.
26:42Flipping 13th in the league.
26:45We're out of the League Cup.
26:46We're out of the FA Cup.
26:48He has a philosophy, apparently.
26:50Where does he go from here?
26:51I hope it's straight to the airport.
26:54Basically, it came to the point where I would say from February,
26:56he has been a dead man walking.
26:59Then it became, well, we've got this opportunity in Europe.
27:03What do we do about that?
27:05So Ange made a strategic decision.
27:08He focused very clearly on the Europa League.
27:12The Spurs go on an amazing run in Europe
27:16and make it into the final against Manchester United in Bilbao.
27:18Making the final was, I guess, for me anyway, a real kind of indication of the road we've taken.
27:29A final. A final of a significant tournament. An opportunity to create history.
27:32Diving Bilbao, building up to the Europa League final. It's an all-English clash.
27:42The pressure was immense. Like, if you win you get a trophy. If you lose, there's nothing.
27:48We're talking about a club who lost three finals before, you know, the last sort of 17 years.
27:56Had made eight or nine semi-finals.
27:59That's not a great record in big games.
28:00So there's a lot of nervous people around at the club, trust me, who, you know, were fearing the worst.
28:06Yeah, probably our supporters as well.
28:08We're at the stadium. We've walked in with the Spurs fans.
28:12The atmosphere is electric.
28:14There's a whole stadium full of Spurs fans back in London also supporting their team.
28:20So two Premier League teams playing in a European final.
28:24Doesn't get any bigger than that, I don't think.
28:25This was the one game on the planet that night, and you know the whole world's watching.
28:34Georgia, his wife, his kids, were all sitting together in the grandstand and kicking every ball with Ange.
28:43Tottenham scored late on in the first half. Pretty scrappy goal.
28:49So we get him at half-time 1-0 up.
28:51Ange has said, you know, I would never try and hold on to a 1-0 lead.
28:55No one has tried to hold on to a 1-0 lead more than Ange did in the second half of this game.
29:00It was wave after wave of Manchester United attacks. A couple of incredible saves.
29:07I actually said to Georgia, his wife, to have a look at Ange, I reckon he's the calmest person in the whole stadium.
29:15And the relief when that whistle finally blew was amazing.
29:26I guess it's the pent-up joy and emotion of people who hadn't won a trophy.
29:31They all just celebrated as one.
29:32Eventually Ange comes out, we see him and we just give him the biggest hug, biggest hug and very emotional time.
29:43It's a tradition for British teams to have an open-top bus parade after they've won a major trophy.
29:55They're usually joyous events. I think this one was another level.
30:02How am I feeling? Oh my God, on top of the world!
30:05Oh, I'm buzzing mate. I've come a long way for this today. It's an absolute unreal feeling.
30:11I've been waiting since I was a little girl. I've been coming to the game with my dad and this is like a dream come true.
30:17As much as you kind of understand, you know, what a trophy would mean to these people,
30:23it's just seeing them out there today, it's just, it's why we do what we do, you know?
30:27And Ange said, you know, I always win in my second season.
30:30I told them and they didn't believe.
30:35But here we are.
30:39It is actually incredible. You sort of couldn't script it how it has ended.
30:42I'll leave you with this. All the best television series. Season three is better than season two.
30:52I didn't want us to just enjoy the moment, but I also wanted us to think about what's next.
30:58You know, don't settle for this. I've got a taste of it now.
31:02My players have got a taste for it. The club's got a taste for it.
31:05Well, let's make sure we're back here again.
31:08I expect Spurs would have to make a decision very quickly about Ange's future.
31:14He's got Tottenham a trophy. So many managers have failed to do that.
31:18That should instantly afford him the opportunity to go again next year.
31:23So right now, Ange is probably lying on the lounge, somewhere in Greece, sunning himself with his family and having some downtime.
31:35A well-deserved break.
31:37At least a nice day.
31:38I think Ange feels vindicated. I think Ange is really satisfied that he's been able to deliver for everyone important.
31:47When we sat down ten years ago and did this initial Australian story, I think maybe even you guys thought that that was the culmination of what I was about to achieve.
31:58I'm not going to the water, it's freezing.
32:00But what I do know is that in ten years' time, if we sit down again, I've got no doubt in my mind that there'll be more stories to tell.
32:08There'll be more trophies than have been won.
32:10Quite frankly, Ange Postacoglu got it right and I got it wrong.
32:23Ange Postacoglu won Rory Jennings nil.
32:25In fact, Ange Postacoglu won 100 Rory Jennings nil.
32:30Ange Postacoglu has become a legend of that club.
32:33He has become a true icon of that club.
32:36He has done something that I didn't think were possible and he is now etched into Tottenham folklore forever.