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Tottenham boss Postecoglou explains calm touchline approach

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou has explained his calm touchline approach in games.

Postecoglou insists he sees it the best way to manage his players during the game.

"It's 26 years of [experience]," he said. "If I want the players to be clear-headed in that moment, it won't help if I am jumping around and screaming my head off.

"It's not me anyway. It doesn't mean I don't internally feel the anxiety and all those kind of things, but I've learnt that over the course of my career and in those moments, I still may be needed in those moments.

"We scored [against Luton on Saturday] and made a substitution straight away and put Pierre on, if I am running down the touchline just thinking we've scored and won, I'm not helping the team. But that doesn't mean internally I'm not running. It would probably help me if I did it physically as well!

"I think again, my role in that time and it's just me. It's not I think this is the way it should be, it's just me as a person this is the best way I can deal with what is happening. I think my role in that moment is to try and help the players."

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