00:00Right, hello everyone, Adam Cleary, Adam Cleary Football Channel, obviously, and I'm not editing any of this today,
00:08because it's not about data or stats or graphs or anything like that, right?
00:11It's just, I want to talk about Anton Kinski and just get the video straight out, right?
00:18Because seeing this has moved me a bit.
00:22And just, if you've not seen it, right, Tottenham played, Atletico, he makes two really bad errors.
00:27In the opening 15 minutes, he gets hauled off, substituted, and his manager just completely ignores him.
00:36I think it's Gallagher, Paulina, and Solanke, they chase after him down the tunnel to try and console him.
00:42And I've just never seen anything like that in my entire life.
00:47Now, today, obviously, it is a meme. It's very easy content.
00:52But this is a 22-year-old, right, making his 13th appearance for you ever, his first competitive one since
01:01October,
01:01and his first for you ever at this level, right?
01:05And this site here has genuinely gotten to me quite a bit, because I think there's a few things you
01:12need to understand
01:12about being a goalkeeper, and, more importantly, about managing human beings in these sorts of environments.
01:20And I just, I don't feel like anybody's really addressing that.
01:24So, I would like to.
01:29Right, so, to start, I want to make a few things clear, okay?
01:34If you watch that game, there were players slipping over constantly, like Jed Spence gets a yellow for clattering into
01:40Griezmann
01:41when the turf just comes loose under his feet, like he immediately points at it.
01:46This is a mess.
01:47And this is the Atletico left-back a minute before the first goal, losing his footing before the ball even
01:53gets to him,
01:54and then ending up on his arse after he passes it.
01:57And the difference between those two examples and the first goal is that if you fall over, right,
02:04making a tackle or a pass in the opposition half, you don't then immediately give away a goal that gets
02:11pinned on you as a howler.
02:14Like, even the second goal, Mickey van der Ven slips over to let Antoine Griezmann in,
02:19and you are not going to hear that described as a catastrophic individual error,
02:25because stuff like that just happens.
02:28And I'm not telling you this to try and make excuses for Anton Kinski, right?
02:33I'm showing you the state of the pitch, because there is something people don't really get about being in goal,
02:40and that is that him falling over, even on a pitch where everyone is falling over,
02:46will not make a blind bit of difference to how he feels about that.
02:51It will not even cross his mind that the pitch is cutting up and other players were falling over,
02:56because as a goalkeeper, you internalise everything like that,
03:01and hold yourself personally responsible for any mistakes that get made.
03:07Like, you cannot tell him that's not his fault,
03:10because you'll know there was maybe one or two things he could have done differently
03:15that would have stopped it happening, right?
03:18And that is precisely why the second mistake, which is his fault, ends up happening.
03:25It's straight back to him from the kickoff,
03:27and he is so worried about losing his footing with his standing leg,
03:31he doesn't set himself properly for the kick.
03:34Like, his entire thought process here is,
03:37just don't make the same mistake again and fall over,
03:40instead of trying to get a good connection on the kick.
03:44And that's obviously a bad decision to make,
03:47but derived from an earlier mistake that wasn't even really his fault.
03:52Or to put that another way, it's derived from a lack of experience,
03:56of playing in these sorts of games, under this sort of scrutiny,
03:59in these sorts of circumstances,
04:01which should not surprise you for, and I'll say it again,
04:06a 22-year-old making only his 13th appearance for you ever,
04:12his first competitive one since October,
04:14and his first for you at this level.
04:18And if, right, you're looking at that and thinking,
04:20well, just, like, forget about it, move on,
04:23surely being a professional footballer,
04:25or even just a goalkeeper at any level,
04:27is about having the mindset to put that behind you straight away,
04:31and get on with the game.
04:33But I just want to show you this David De Gea tweet, right?
04:37Because it's absolutely perfect.
04:39Unless you have played that position regularly,
04:42and I don't mean, like, you've had the odd go at five a side,
04:45or you've stepped in when nobody else wanted to do it.
04:48I mean, you play that position regularly.
04:51It is seen as your position,
04:53and there's a level of responsibility inherent to that, right?
04:57Unless you've done that,
04:59you cannot possibly understand what that feels like.
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05:57Back to the video.
05:59Like, it's almost laughable for me to compare this, right?
06:02But I am a goalkeeper, right?
06:05At maybe the lowest level of football you can possibly imagine,
06:10but that is my position, right?
06:13I play there by choice.
06:14That's what I enjoy doing.
06:16And I do it at 7 a side, 8 a side, 11 a side,
06:19dozens and dozens of times a year.
06:22And even though the pressure and the scrutiny I'm under
06:24is a million miles below what Kinski is under here,
06:29I can tell you exactly what he is feeling here.
06:33The thing I think people don't understand about playing that position, right,
06:38is just how lonely it gets.
06:42Like, it is just you back there.
06:44There's no, like, partnerships that will spread the responsibility.
06:48You can't really lean on any of your teammates to get you through a difficult game.
06:53It's just you.
06:55And you feel that entire weight of responsibility
06:58that everyone else is relying on you to give them the chance to go and win the game.
07:05So if you make a mistake, you feel like you have let everybody down,
07:10like you've ruined it for everyone.
07:13And honestly, it doesn't even matter how bad the rest of the team is.
07:17If you make a mistake, that's the thing, in your head at least, that went wrong today.
07:23Like, if a striker misses an easy chance, then that's unlucky.
07:28That's a shame, isn't it?
07:29But if you let one through your hands, that is the end of the world to you.
07:35And that is the other thing, isn't it?
07:36It does not matter what level you play at.
07:39You are going to make mistakes.
07:41Like, I had a Power League game the other week where I thought I was so bad,
07:46I genuinely considered stopping playing entirely.
07:51And that's it.
07:52Not the Champions League round of 16, by the way.
07:55Shoreditch, seven aside, on a Thursday night.
07:57But I still felt like I'd let people down so much.
08:01Might be time to hang up the old gloves.
08:05Now, I'm pleased to say I didn't do that.
08:07I managed to screw my head back on.
08:08And then the next week, we played for the new team.
08:11We've got here at the Independent where we won and I thought I'd played really well again.
08:16And bang, like that, you are top of the world again.
08:21And that's just the roller coaster you go on playing in goal.
08:24So take that and then magnify it to the biggest possible stage you can imagine.
08:29And then, consider you're a 22-year-old playing in a team that are doing so badly and under so
08:36much scrutiny,
08:37you sort of have half the country willing you to fail.
08:41And honestly, that's why this image here genuinely puts a knot in my chest.
08:46But this image here, I actually think it's really important to talk about.
08:52Anton Kinski did not pick the team for this game, right?
08:57Igor Tudor did, didn't he?
08:59And he reasoned that having Kinski in goal with his sort of distribution
09:03would give Tottenham a better chance of getting a result here than if he put Vicario in goal, right?
09:08Now, that is a decision that has obviously backfired spectacularly, but nonetheless, it was his decision.
09:16And what was also his decision was to create this, like, media circus around it
09:20by hauling Kinski off after 15 minutes and thus denying him any chance in this game
09:28to make amends or to somehow salvage his performance.
09:32Now, we don't know exactly what went on.
09:34Obviously, Romero went over there.
09:35There's some speculation.
09:36He said, look, you've got to take him off.
09:38His head is all over the place.
09:40He may well have subbed him to protect him.
09:43But regardless, he still decided he had to sub him.
09:46And to then completely blank him on his way off, to somehow isolate him even further.
09:52That is not a manager taking responsibility for his decisions.
09:57That is a 47-year-old man putting the blame for all of this on a relative kid, right?
10:03And honestly, that has genuinely angered me.
10:09I do not think him slipping over in the first place is his fault at all, really.
10:15And the actual mistake he does make later on is born out of the inexperience that you as a manager
10:21know he's got.
10:24So to not say a word to him, to not explain your decision, to let him sit for at least
10:29half an hour in that changing room,
10:31probably thinking his career is finished at this level, right?
10:36That is not just a lack of man management to me.
10:41That is a genuine lack of humanity.
10:43So, yes, I don't really have, like, a deep or interesting point to make about any of this.
10:49I just felt like somebody, um, should talk about it.
10:52And I always like talking about goalkeeping, to be honest.
10:55And the sight of all of this, um, just, just touched a nerve.
11:01Plus, it's my channel, isn't it? I'll do what I want.
11:03Better yet, though, you can let me know what you think of all this down in the comments below,
11:07because it would be nice to get some sort of sane dialogue going about the whole thing.
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11:31So, um, when's my next game?
11:33I'm playing for the London Mags in goal on Sunday,
11:36so let's see if all of this is just too much for me.
11:39And I also go off in tears after 15 minutes.
11:43Wouldn't be the first time, chaps. Goodbye.
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