A small fan seen from behind shouts through a giant megaphone at vast stadium gates, next to a staircase of ten blank cubes.

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Mikey Moore German Question Sends Season Ticket Holder To Stadium Gates To Recite Numbers To Ten

Philippa Crane · Media Editor15 October · Reading time: one pint

BBC Sport has published a video asking how much German Mikey Moore, on loan at Cologne from Tottenham, has learned so far, and it requires JavaScript to be enabled.

A Tottenham season ticket holder has begun learning German outside the stadium after BBC Sport published a video asking how much of the language Mikey Moore has picked up while on loan at Cologne.

The video, which this newspaper was unable to play without enabling JavaScript, does not say how much German has been learned. The supporter has proceeded on the basis that it is a great deal, and that he is behind.

If the lad's on the numbers, I can't be stood here on two.

He arrived at the forecourt shortly after nine on a day with no fixture, carrying a phrasebook, a flask and a folding stool, and took up a position facing the closed gates of the stadium.

By ten he had established the words for hello, thank you and turnstile, the last of which he has since addressed directly to turnstile three, which did not respond.

The Herald understands the matter was first raised over breakfast, where a related topic page offered him the option to follow Tottenham Hotspur, the German Bundesliga and Football. He has followed all three and describes himself as keeping up.

A passing groundsman asked whether he was waiting for anything in particular. The supporter replied in German, then repeated the answer in English, which was that he was waiting to be ready.

He has reached the number seven.

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Mudryk Spotted At Chelsea During Injury Layoff, So Group Chat Convenes And Asks About The Stairs

The Evening Standard reports that Tottenham loanee Mykhailo Mudryk watched Shakhtar beat AEK Athens 3-1 in the Champions League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, and the chat has seven members.

A Tottenham group chat of seven members met on the upper deck of a northbound bus on Thursday morning to establish a formal position on the news that Mykhailo Mudryk was seen at Stamford Bridge.

The Evening Standard reported that the Tottenham loanee attended Shakhtar Donetsk's 3-1 Champions League win over AEK Athens on Wednesday night, one of 29,144 people in the ground. Andriy Shevchenko was also present.

The chat, which has monitored the Mudryk ankle since the start of September, called the item to order at Manor House. The chairman, who created the group in 2021 and has never relinquished the role, read the report aloud from his phone.

If he can get into Stamford Bridge he can get up these stairs. I'm only saying what I'm seeing.

The Herald understands the remark was received in silence, partly out of respect and partly because the bus was pulling away from a stop and nobody wished to test the point.

It was noted for the record that Mudryk has been out since the beginning of September with an ankle ligament injury suffered in training, days after his debut off the bench at Nottingham Forest. He will be ineligible to face Chelsea next Saturday even if fit.

A motion that the sighting was a sign was amended to a development, then to a thing, and was withdrawn at Stamford Hill after a member pointed out that he had once been seen at a bus stop himself.

The chat resolved to revisit the matter on Monday. The bus reached Tottenham Hale before the minutes could be approved.

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