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The Athletic Welcome back, everybody. I'm Danny Kelly. This is, of course, the View from the Lane podcast. Thank you for joining us. And we're joined as well today, as always, by some top people from the athletic, Jack Pitt Brookers with us and Charlie Echo Share. And seeing as we're in an international week,

we'll start off with a story you shared in our WhatsApp group over the weekend, Jack.

Maurizio Pocitino has been visiting quite a famous restaurant in London.

Yeah, so he's been to, I don't know how to pronounce it,

N-U-S-R-E-T.

Most famous is known as Salt Bayes Restaurant, which is just open in London.

This is something which has kind of grown out of, I think, Dubai initially,

and is now really, really popular with football people all over the world.

And he's most famous, Salt Bay Bay for doing this thing where he like

sprinkles salt in a really affected fashion on his food. And when footballers and football people

go to his restaurants, they do the same thing. And Portchitino was doing it. And this was a photo

on Salt Bay's Instagram. For this privilege, the steak, and I'm sure it's a very decent steak,

costs upwards of 600 of your English pounds. I mean, I know Pochitino is interested in steak

and grilling in general, because there was always those pictures, A, of him and other

Argentinian spur celebrities like Ardelez, going to steak restaurants and B, didn't he get,

as a present from the players at one stage, a great big grill set up with his name written

along the front, engraved along the front of it. To add to it, Jack, there seems to be a new gimmick

now to make the steak worth 600 quid and that he puts lemon juice on it now, doesn't he?

And you squirt the lemon juice onto your now doesn't he by and you run you squirt the

lemon juice onto your forearm and he runs down and drops off again to your elbow done you know

you know about salt bay than i do oh i'm an obsessed by expert but i oh no i'm utterly obsessed

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