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When Manchester City's players were afforded some downtime in a Croydon hotel on Friday night, Jack Grealish headed straight to his room and fired up the iPad.
He'd been binge watching a series, with the itch that it really needed finishing.
What he might not have expected is that Netflix and chill brought him close to tears. Grealish had a 49-minute episode left of the documentary detailing City's Treble season so he sat there, re-lived it, overcome with emotion.
And then turned out arguably his best performance of this campaign at Crystal Palace 15 hours later. The two things might well be linked.
'I know this is a bit deep,' Grealish said. 'The last episode especially made me a bit emotional, made me want to go and do it again and made me think.
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'At the end of the day this is the youngest I'm ever going to be so I've got to try and enjoy the moment. Because I'm not going to be playing the Champions League for the rest of my life.
'It's been a difficult season for me personally after the highs of last year.'
There has been introspection for Grealish since he became the poster boy of City's history-making night in Istanbul last June.
By his own admission, he has struggled to come to terms with the magnitude of the achievement – only the second English team to complete a clean sweep – and it has undoubtedly contributed to what has since unfolded.
Palace was only his ninth Premier League start of the campaign.
Pep Guardiola has had several conversations with the 28-year-old about life, about hunger and what it means to go again, how to retain a relentlessness in pursuit of excellence.
The manager has chosen, at different times, to go public with pointed remarks.
There came a suggestion that a lack of peak fitness influenced one of Grealish's three injuries. He's wanted him 'angry' for losing his place to Jeremy Doku. And some intermittent references to his training displays.
But the message over the last week is that 'Jack is back'. Back just in time - and Grealish himself wants to make up for what has been lost.
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His cockapoo Skye is also very dear to him and she is allowed to run around at training ground
'At times this season I have struggled a little bit with myself,' he said. 'Sometimes you do sit
