Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook, and I'm joined again today by Charlie Ackleshirt and James Moore.

Well, this is a very different podcast from the one that I was expecting us to do after 81 minutes of yesterday's game when Tottenham were 3-0 up.

Charlie, did you have any idea at all at that point that this might happen?

No, none.

Sometimes, I mean, rarely when a team's 3-0-up, do you feel uncertain?

You probably do if there are only two goals out, but at three goals, no.

Unless, as James is a little Twitter, it's...

I don't even start repeatedly by the same.

Unless it's Spurs United in 2001.

But I don't think even the more pessimistic, fatalistic, Totten fans, and there is obviously

a lot of competition for that title, would have really, you know, based on any sort of

rationality, been thinking that they were vulnerable.

I mean, yes, if they were three-n-n-up against, say, Liverpool or City, then, yeah, of course, you'd be really nervous. But this was a game that was just really drifting away. I mean, it was 3-0. Spurs were doing that thing of making subs spaced out to kind of just run the clock down as much as possible. You know, it would have, there would have been a declaration probably if it had been

cricket.

It was just, it was done.

It was completely finished.

And actually, I, sometimes when I'm at the games, I'll have a headphone in just so I

can listen to what's being said in commentary.

And I did that.

And when the first goal went in to make it 3-1, I was kind of surprised because the commentators, to be fair to them, I think it was Rob Porthon was the main commentator, was like, game on, you know, West Ham are right back in this. And I was thinking, like, really? Like, they're not're you know you're trying to generate some interest

when there just isn't any because clearly this game's finished um shows what i know because

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