Another dismal performance against Chelsea + should we be worried?
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Host Danny Kelly is joined by The Athletic's James Maw and Dan Kilpatrick to analyse yet another bad home performance. They discuss Frank's tactics, team selection, the crowd reaction, one particularly angry incident between the manager and the players and where we go from here.
They also preview Copenhagen on Tuesday.
HOST: Danny Kelly
WITH: James Maw, Dan Kilpatrick
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC |
| 0:03.1 | FC |
| 0:03.3 | Hello, I'm Yeah, hello everybody and welcome once again to The View from the Lane, |
| 0:27.4 | the Top of the Heart's book podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:30.2 | Joining me from The Athletic today, I'm Danny Kelly, of course, |
| 0:33.4 | our Dan Kilpatrick and James Moore. |
| 0:36.5 | And it should be noted that we think, including the producer, |
| 0:39.9 | this may be the first time in the long and storied history of this podcast that everybody |
| 0:45.0 | who's on it actually supports Spurs. And of course, we've picked the perfect game for such an |
| 0:51.7 | alignment of the planets to work on. |
| 0:54.8 | I need to start with an apology. |
| 0:56.9 | Now, look, this pod is not all about me. |
| 1:00.3 | And if this sounds like it's all about me, I don't care |
| 1:02.4 | because I need to get this off my chest. |
| 1:05.5 | On Thursday, I did something that I promised myself |
| 1:09.0 | I would never do in my broadcasting career, long and storied, |
| 1:13.2 | and that was I allowed the opinions of others to slightly dilute and sway what I wanted to say myself. |
| 1:21.1 | Jack Pittbrook and Elias Burke, both of whom I respect and admire in every possible way, |
| 1:29.6 | after the game at Newcastle came on and their opening salvos, their opening statements, forced me or made me, it's my choice, |
| 1:37.6 | backed down a bit from what I actually thought about Spurs in that game. |
| 1:41.4 | One, does it because you don't want to be always arguing with your colleagues, |
| 1:45.2 | and two, because you don't want to appear to be a grumpy old man, about which I can do very |
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