Two faceless suited men whisper beside an oversized baby monitor propped against a stadium gate in front of large windows.

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Hooligan Soccer Says Spurs Are Monitoring Catamo And Supporter Props Baby Monitor Against Stadium Gate

Barry Napier · Transfer Correspondent17 October · Reading time: one pint

Hooligan Soccer reports Tottenham are among several Premier League clubs monitoring Sporting CP winger Geny Catamo, who has a €60m release clause, and the unit has a stated range of 250 metres.

A Tottenham season ticket holder has propped a baby monitor against the nearest stadium gate after learning that the club are among several Premier League sides monitoring Sporting CP winger Geny Catamo.

The Herald understands the report originates with Hooligan Soccer, which names Sunderland, Nottingham Forest, Brentford and Brighton as fellow watchers, with AC Milan and Como also interested. The man says he can only speak for Tottenham.

The unit, bought for £19 and previously stationed in a nursery, was positioned at ten past seven on Saturday morning. Its stated range is 250 metres. Sporting CP play in Lisbon.

It says monitoring. So I'm monitoring. Somebody has to be doing it at this end.

The report adds that Catamo has a goal and four assists in eight league appearances and a contract running to June 2029, with a €60m release clause that Sporting are said to regard as a deterrent.

The man has written the figure on the back of an envelope and held it up to the unit twice. The unit has so far relayed one pigeon, a lorry reversing, and a sound he describes as possibly a negotiation.

At time of going to press the device's light had turned amber, which he has read as interest. The manual says it means low battery.

He has gone to buy batteries.

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Kinsky Resilience Piece Says Look Past Seventeen Minutes, So Supporter Waits Eighteen Minutes Outside Stadium

An opinion piece on a Spurs fan site says Antonin Kinsky's response to being substituted after 17 minutes at Atletico Madrid matters more than the 17 minutes themselves, and the supporter has been at the gate since half past nine.

A Tottenham supporter has spent the morning outside a closed stadium declining to react to anything for eighteen minutes, following an opinion piece that asked readers to look beyond one difficult spell of seventeen.

The article, published on a Spurs fan site, recalls Antonin Kinsky's night at the Metropolitano in March, when he was replaced by Guglielmo Vicario after 17 minutes of a 5-2 Champions League defeat. It argues that what followed matters more.

The man read the final paragraph twice at the bus stop. It invites supporters to consider "how he handled what came next". He took this as an instruction, and as a matter of procedure.

Seventeen is the bad bit. So I give everything eighteen and see what comes next.

Since arriving at the gate he has withheld comment on a passing bus, a delivery driver and a gull, each for the full interval, which he times on a watch he describes as reliable. The Herald observed him not reacting to a crisp packet for the whole of its journey across the forecourt.

The piece goes on to note that Kinsky stepped in at Sunderland, made saves against Wolves, Leeds and Everton, signed a new contract in June and played all 90 minutes for the Czech Republic against Spain this month, a 3-1 defeat. The man says he is currently at Sunderland and will reach the Czech Republic after lunch.

A passer-by asked him the time at ten past eleven. He said she would have it in eighteen minutes, and she did not wait.

At the time of going to press he had still not formed a view on the 3-1.

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