A scarcely believable Champions League position for Spurs!
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Host Danny Kelly is joined by The Athletic's James Maw and Dan Kilpatrick to celebrate a fourth (we repeat) FOURTH placed finish for Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League league phase. They discuss how Spurs looked so utterly in control, the individual performances of Udogie, Simons and Odobert, as well as a system change by Thomas Frank that looks like a plan for the future.
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HOST: Danny Kelly
WITH: James Maw, Dan Kilpatrick
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome once again to The View from the Lane, |
| 0:26.8 | Totten Hot Spurr podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm Danny Kelly. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm with me to stay from The Athletic, James Moore and Dan Kilpatrick. |
| 0:36.4 | And let me start up and welcome both. |
| 0:39.6 | Goodbye to the Exasperation Express. |
| 0:43.0 | Farewell to the bloodless blues and adios to the repeat rinse roller coaster. |
| 0:48.7 | For one podcast at least, let's celebrate from the rooftops, |
| 0:53.2 | another fine continental victory and a quite |
| 0:56.0 | unbelievable, the Champions League finishing position for the mighty spurs. Who, Dan Kilpatrick, |
| 1:05.1 | and you're an expert on these matters, finish fourth in the Champions League after the league |
| 1:09.8 | phase. |
| 1:13.8 | A result, I think we all predicted when the draw was made. |
| 1:18.1 | Yeah, I mean, on the last pod, Jack was talking about the ossification of Spurs' |
| 1:20.0 | badness in the Premier League. |
| 1:25.0 | So at what point are we talking about the ossification of Spurs' competence in Europe? |
| 1:26.4 | I mean, because... Oh, we take you for granted now. |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | That is the way it is right now. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, I don't think anyone would have predicted that. |
| 1:33.3 | I think, obviously, it speaks to the fact that the Premier League is increasingly a kind |
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