Dele Alli is good at many things.

Playing in midfield. Scoring belting goals. Getting noticed when he gives the referee his banter-loving team mate the finger.

However, if there is one thing the Tottenham man takes particular pride in, it's his ability to come up with ludicrously elaborate handshakes to be used as goal celebrations with his Spurs team mates.

Which makes it somewhat ironic that the first telling off Alli ever received from Mauricio Pochettino was over his failure to shake hands.

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Alli and Poch - two men who value a good handshake (
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Alli appears on this week's episode of A League of Their Own. During the show, host James Corden asks the England man about his infamous handshakes.

You know the ones… the ones he has done during/after games with Harry Kane and Son-Heung Min, which have so many stages they look as if they needed lots of work.

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Corden jokingly asks how much of a Pochettino training session is dedicated to practising silly handshakes.

As you can see in the clip at the top of the page, Alli's response is more revealing than intended:

"In the mornings, everyone goes around and shakes each other's hands. I think, over time, everyone just got a little bit bored! It sort of expanded from there.

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Alli's fellow guests quite rightly ask Alli to clarify his statement that the Tottenham boss makes ALL his players shake hands before training.

Remarkably, that really does appear to be the case.

"Yeah, yeah, that came from Pochettino. As soon as I went there, I remember there was a big meeting going on in the lunch hall.

"I'd just turned up and I didn't shake his hand. He pulled me into his office straight after and had a go at me."

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So, the Argentinian manager gave Alli a dressing down right at the start of his Tottenham career for not understanding the importance of a handshake.

Fast forward a few years, and Alli now spends an inordinate amount of time creating the most elaborate handshakes you will ever see.

Coincidence? We think not…

A League of Their Own is back on Thursday 14 September at 9pm on Sky1