Dele Alli has accused Amazon of selective editing during their fly-on-the-wall Tottenham documentary in 2020, claiming they failed to show that Jose Mourinho apologised for calling him 'lazy'.
The former Spurs midfielder has spoken out about his career struggles, battles with addiction and attending rehab in an eye-opening and emotional interview with Gary Neville on The Overlap.
And among his revelations were the truth over his meeting with former Spurs boss Mourinho seen in the documentary, where the Portuguese coach famously described him as 'lazy' in training.
Alli pointed out that Mourinho had used the term after a recovery day - and that when Mourinho had watched him train the following week he apologised.
'I'm glad you asked me about that [Jose Mourinho calling me lazy],' he said when quizzed about the situation by Neville.
'So that lazy comment people all love to bring that up, that interview obviously that was on Amazon. He called me lazy – that was the day after recovery day. A week later, he apologised to me for calling me lazy because he'd seen me actually train and play. But that wasn't in the documentary, and no one spoke up about that because it was only me and him.
'In the team meeting, he called me lazy but then one on one, I think it was on the pitch he apologised for it. And I didn't think anything of it at the time because I know myself – I'm not lazy.'
Alli said social media often 'portrays something that isn't real' and claimed it became 'easy' to give him the 'lazy' tag during his career.
'What you see sometimes isn't the way it really is. I think, especially now with social media and all these things, we can really portray something that isn't real. After that, I think people definitely tried to use that, for some other decisions.
'Yeah, for sure and I think other coaches maybe, for other reasons why I weren't playing, they stuck to that – lazy one – because it was kind of an easy, easy one to use. And the problem was probably more than that, I think.'