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New Gareth Bail, new Formation, first Premier League win against the team not in the relegation zone for two months,

consecutive clean sheets for the first time in two months, biggest league win in five months,

was this the weekend that everything changed, or was it just Burnley at home?

You're listening to the View from the Lane podcast, my name is Jack Pittbrook.

I'm joined as always by James Moore.

Now James, it has been a pretty grim few months for Tottenham, but watching the Bata Burnley in the bright sunlight yesterday afternoon, I did think everything's changed. Everything's going to be okay, isn't it? It's amazing, isn't it, how quickly, and we're going to kind of come on to the accusations that we've been quite fickle over the court

through the season in a bit, I think.

But it is, it is, like mad how quickly

things... quickly, and we're going to come on to the accusations that we've been quite fickle over the court of the season in a bit, I think. But it is, it is mad how quickly things do feel completely different, which isn't to say, I've come around to your way of thinking of sort of November, December that Spurs were in the title race, but certainly you kind of look at the Premier League table now all of a sudden and they're six points off fourth with a

game in hand on West Ham and you think yeah actually maybe it's not entirely insurmountable

and they're in the Europa League last 16 against the team who you know I'm sure we're very good

because you know a dynamo's our Grebel always have

a brilliant, technically gifted players. That's kind of one of the things we know.

But suppose she should be backing themselves to get through there. So if we look at it, you know,

in the race for top four, potentially with a good opportunity to go through to the last

eight of the European competition, it's not all bad, is it? I think I said to you last week, I think it was Tuesday when the sun came out for the first time. And I said to you, oh, it's so easy to feel optimistic about the world when the sun comes out. You know, you kind of, you kind of, that seasonal affective disorder thing, you know, you kind of realize you have that when the sun's come out and it's like oh wow it's just so much nicer to go outside and it's sunny and you kind of, that seasonal affective disorder thing, you know, you kind of realize you have that when a sun's come out and it's like, oh wow, it's just so much nicer to go outside and it's sunny and you kind of, you can look forward, you can feel optimistic and there are things to look forward to in the world after all. I don't know if that's too much of the kind of window into my state of well-being, maybe, I don't know. But even more than that on Wednesday night, seeing Deli Alley score an amazing goal and then

smile for the first time in bloody ages, it was even better, better than the sun.

I'm not saying the weather is why Tottenham were good, because that would be very silly.

But it was a really, really nice day on Sunday.

And I walked through, this is completely, this will be of no interest to listeners at all, but I walked through Haringay beforehand on my way up to the ground. And it was so nice. And again, as always in these kind of situations, I didn't think, God, I really, really wish they were fancied because it's exactly the kind of like Sunday lunchtime game where you get a nice big crowded and everyone's

kind of relaxed and I thought it would have been a really good vibe. And maybe that

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