Assessing Spurs' Christmas
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke, Charlie Eccleshare and James Maw analyse a mixed festive season for Spurs.
They reflect on the win over Leeds which saw more goals from Kane and Son. Are Spurs now too reliant on their dominant goal-scorers? Plus, they debate the role of Harry Winks in the squad. Is he still an important asset?
There's a discussion on the club's Covid rule-breakers, a preview of the two cup ties this week, and a special quiz to mark our first podcast of 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, happy new year and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:23.6 | My name is Jack Pitbrook and I'm joined today by James Moore and Charlie Ackleshare. |
| 0:27.6 | Right now, you can subscribe to The Athletic for a special one-off price. |
| 0:32.0 | Enjoy great analysis and in-depth features from the very best football writers around, |
| 0:36.5 | as well as add free versions of all |
| 0:38.5 | of our podcasts for less than £4 per month. Just go to theathletic.com forward slash Spurs pod |
| 0:44.9 | to sign up and enjoy The Athletic throughout 2021. That's theathletic.com forward slash Spurs pod. |
| 0:53.2 | It's been two weeks since our last podcast during which time spurs have |
| 0:57.2 | beaten stoke city drawn with wolves and a game cancelled against fulham and then beaten leads |
| 1:02.6 | united um charlie overall positive christmas break yeah with those games i mean taking, taking in Lester, definitely not. |
| 1:12.6 | If you exclude Lester, then I think you'd describe it as mixed, probably. |
| 1:16.7 | I mean, I was talking about this with James and, you know, saying, |
| 1:19.3 | I don't think wolves, drawing away at wolves in isolation is not a terrible result. |
| 1:23.4 | I think it was the context around that and the kind of palace flashbacks that it invoked that frustrated people. |
| 1:30.8 | But, yeah, I mean, getting the Leeds win was really important. |
| 1:33.6 | First win in nearly a month since the North London Derby. |
| 1:36.1 | And it felt like a bit of a reset after Wolves, after Leicester, after Liverpool, after Palace. |
| 1:43.5 | So, yeah, I don't think it's been a hugely successful kind of festive period, |
| 1:48.6 | but at least they finished it off with a win that they really needed. |
| 1:51.3 | James, you must have enjoyed the Leeds game after a pretty... |
| 1:53.5 | Rural run in the league. |
| 1:55.1 | Yeah, I mean, I think as Charlie says, you know, |
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