Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hospital podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook and I'm joined for a special episode this morning by James

Morton, Charlie Ackleshare. Spurs are on their way to Wembley. They beat Brentford in the

League Cup semi-final last night. Charlie, was there much of a sense of occasion at Whitehall Lane?

Just firstly, what is funny, you saying Spurs were on the way to Wembley, when they were playing Ozzie's Dream at the stadium after the game, I found it really funny when Sosko was asked about it. And he was like, oh, no, I don't really know this song. And you can just imagine everyone, be like, no, Sosco, come on, pretend that you know it and that you love it and it means loads to you.

I mean, it's hard for there it and it means loads to you.

I mean, it's hard for there to be a massive occasion without supporters there,

but I guess, you know, then playing that song was a nod to the fact that it was something different.

You could tell it meant a lot.

I mean, I like the footage of Marino and his coaches celebrating after. There's the clip of Lucas kind of dancing a lot. I mean, I like the footage of Marino and his coaches celebrating after.

There's the clip of Lucas kind of dancing around at the final whistle.

Yeah, I think it definitely means loads, but obviously with no one there to watch, it's

slightly different.

I guess as well, the nature of it, we talked about it on Monday, didn't we, that, you know,

it was a game they were very much expected to win and doing so in 2-0 makes it feel fairly

routine.

But there were some pretty hairy moments and had that equalizer stood a few minutes before,

then it could have been quite dicey. But as it it was I think they they it was just a really solid professional performance and it's it's such a nice bonus and thing to look forward to to to have a cup find on the horizon James you must be buzzing yeah I, yeah. I'm far happier than I expected to be.

I think that's come at quite a good time. If you're a Spurs fan, like, facing the prospect of being sat at home for, what, at least six weeks, it's quite nice to have a cup final sort of in the distance to look forward to. I don't know, obviously, the thing has been moved to April, the theory being that perhaps there'll be fans there by that stage.

I'd be kind of a little bit... Obviously, the thing has been moved to April, the theory being that perhaps there'll be fans there by that stage.

I'd be kind of a little bit more pessimistic about that.

But, I mean, obviously, it's a great thing.

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