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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Mauricio Pochettino needs to get tough and stop rivals laughing at Chelsea's architects of chaos

It can be funny, the stuff that sticks with you over time. In the case of Mauricio Pochettino, there is one memory in particular. It dates to September 2016 and the moments before a Tottenham press conference, when a few of us were watching an old video.

The idea with these things is to find some kind of reference point before taking your seat and then hoping for a little gold in the manager's recollections. On this given occasion, ahead of a match that was approaching between Spurs and Manchester City, it was geared around his past duels with Pep Guardiola, which had led us to replays of a game in 1997 when Pochettino's Espanyol beat Barcelona.