The Athletic. Hello I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. We're joined today by

the athletics Adam Crafton plus David Ornstein and Jack Pitt Brook for their views on the North London Derby

and also the athletics Greg Evans will be here to talk about Aston Villa and why he thinks they are going places

after beating Manchester United on Saturday.

So we'll start the pod then by Reflecting on yesterday's North London Derby with the athletics

David Ornstein, Jack Pitt Brook and Adam Crafton.

And let's start with you Jack, because the media always starts with the negative, doesn't it?

Your piece today says, obviously, a defeat like this raises questions about the head coach, but it's so much more than that.

There's more than enough blame to go around, I think.

Nuno, it's not going well for Nuno, three defeats in a row and three bad defeats in the Premier League.

I think his position will come under a lot of scrutiny and to be honest, I'll be surprised if he's there next season.

That said, this isn't entirely his fault, you know, it's not his fault that he got the job

ten weeks after Mereneo was sacked, having initially been discarded as an option at the start of that process.

And it's also not his fault, you know, the sort of long-term structural decline in the Tottenham

Squad and the messy strategy over the last few years and the disastrous decision to sack Pochetino and replacing with

Mereno and the failure to renew the squad under Pochetino and you know there's so much stuff that went on

before Nune showed up that we can't pin this only on him.

You mentioned Pochtina there and the squad and I was thinking about this last night and talking

to a friend that whilst obviously there is probably a desire from Spurs fans to get

Pochtino back and you know he's some kind of sacrificial lamb and everything

that's gone on with Tottenham I do wonder if you if you go right back to a

rare, literally right back here actually to around Kyle Walker going and

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