LONDON -- Mauricio Pochettino has revealed how Ryan Mason kick-started his spell as Tottenham manager and changed his own career with an important goal two-and-a-half years ago.
On Thursday, Pochettino visited the Hull City player in hospital, where he is recovering from emergency surgery on a fractured skull following a clash of heads in the match at Chelsea on Saturday. Before the visit, Pochettino described his concern at watching the incident on television from Barcelona, and described Mason, 25, as "a person we love."
Pochettino's team are title challengers now but back in Sept. 2014 they were struggling badly and the manager owes a debt of gratitude to the midfielder for a brilliant 30-yard strike against Nottingham Forest in the League Cup.