Can Frank survive many more performances like that?
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Host Danny Kelly is joined by Jay Harris and Jack Pitt-Brooke to discuss another brutal day for Thomas Frank's Spurs side. They chat about Frank, his subs and selection, the lack of attacking coordination, the goals conceded as well as the players and some shocking performances all over the pitch.
HOST: Danny Kelly
WITH: Jay Harris, Jack Pitt-Brooke
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC. Hello, brilliant, welcome once again to The View from Lane, the Athletics Award-winning Spurs podcast. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Danny Kelly, with me from The Athletics Today, Jay Harris and Jack Pitt Brook. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello to both. |
| 0:34.5 | I guess I'll have to start with what is becoming an all-too-familiar apology at the start |
| 0:39.3 | of these podcasts. It's almost as familiar as Spurs sending out one of their senior players |
| 0:43.7 | to apologize for performances. There are two things going on here. One, we know this would be a |
| 0:48.6 | better laugh this podcast, more fun to listen to if we were all being very upful and joyous. |
| 0:53.8 | And two, bizarrely, the podcast does better. You know, if you want to measure those things, more people listen to it when Spurs are doing well. So I may, in fact, be screaming into an empty void just now. But I don't think, for the sake of entertainment, that we can pretend that that was anything other than what it was. |
| 1:10.9 | At least I don't think we can. It was a brutal defeat at Nottingham Forest. |
| 1:16.1 | And I don't know, because I personally support Spurs, and this is the nuts thing about |
| 1:22.0 | being a football fan, I felt humiliated by the whole thing. I wonder if the Spurs fans, the Spurs manager, management, |
| 1:29.9 | and the Spurs owners felt equally humiliated by what they saw on the banks of the Trent. |
| 1:35.2 | So I'll ask Jay and Jack, because you've got plenty to shuffle here in the pack. You've got |
| 1:40.0 | Bournemouth, Wolves, Arsenal, Chelsea, where does this stand in an increasing selection of |
| 1:48.1 | horrible defeats and, well, Wolves wasn't a defeat, but it might as well have been. |
| 1:52.8 | I don't think it was the worst. I think Arsenal, I think Arsenal was the worst because |
| 2:00.2 | it was Arsenal, I think. And then I think Arsenal was the worst because it was Arsenal, I think. |
| 2:03.4 | And then I think that Chelsea and Bournemouth, I mean, they were terrible, but I mean, |
| 2:10.1 | the fact that they were at home, I think makes them worse because I think there's a special, |
| 2:15.7 | there's a special level of shame |
| 2:17.8 | when it comes to not doing anything in a home game. |
| 2:21.1 | You know, having a home game and doing nothing at all |
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