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There is not one transfer market to close the gap.

I think that in the last few years this gap became very, very big, very big.

Hello everyone and welcome once again This gap became very, very big, very big.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to The View from the Lane, the Tottenham-Hodspurb podcast from The Athletic.

I'm Danny Kelly, and I'm joined on the podcast today by Jack Pitt Brook and Charlie Echo Share.

It is important that they are here and not James Moore, because I suspect spurs going from the euphoria of Lester to what happened at Stanford Bridge might have been too much for him to take without a couple of days for the dust to settle.

I also think it's important that we don't go from, as I say, the absolute bell-wringing joy of the late goals against Lester to being too much down the dumps about the Chelsea result that I do think it shows up all kinds of things about the team, the manager and the clubs so why don't we start with you Charlie because you're at Stanford Bridge yesterday just tell us your thoughts on the actual game well the first half was fairly encouraging certainly it was the most encouraging half probably of the six that Spurs have played against Chelsea in this...

Praise indeed, Charlie, praise indeed.

In this epic trilogy, yeah, it is a bit damn with faint praise, isn't it?

You know, they were in the game, they were competing, they were scrapping.

Obviously, they had the cane disallowed goal that I'm sure we'll come on to.

And then it all fell apart a bit. I mean, I thought the, the Tanganga booking was very

significant because Hudson Adoy realized he could run at him and Tanganga couldn't really make

a tackle. And that actually led to both goals because the first goal comes with him beating Tanganga

around the halfway line

and then passing to Ziek and then the second he glides past him and then Daya Fowls him

and then Chelsea scored from the resulting free kick and and that one two the one two punch of

conceding those goals so quickly it just killed it and and you know with the team selection which

again I'm sure we'll get

onto, with all those defenders out, they were kind of set up to make life difficult and

awkward for Chelsea and they did that, but they weren't set up to come back from a 2-0 deficit.

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