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Harry Kane was brought back from an ankle injury and took until the second half to grow into the game.

Spurs didn't have the game taken away from them until the end, but it never felt like they had a foothold in it either.

Moose to Soko made a costly mistake, but ultimately Tottenham were beaten by a much better team.

The same story in the championship final in 2019 as it was in the Carabelle Cup final in 2021.

Either way,

tartan feel further away, I think, from winning something than they did two years ago.

So the question is, how did they get back there? My name's Jack Pitbrook. You're listening to

The View from the Lane podcast. I'm joined as always by James Moore. James, Sun King

Men looked devastated at the final whistle. It wasn't the only Spurs player as well.

To look that upset, I imagine Spurs fans are feeling the same.

Yeah, yeah.

Essentially, it was an hour and a half of suffering bad football again.

But this time, with the kidablo coming at the end, which, I mean, I suppose you could argue,

it wasn't necessarily

massively different to all of those league games except they haven't taken the lead and uh

intentionally sat in i'm not sure you could say that was like some kind of grand master plan to

um not have any of the ball and be camped in the own penalty area like that so yeah in spite of that

you know when you get to the 85th minute and it's still no-no, you do start to think, well, maybe there is some way that something stupid is going to happen and they're going to win the game, but unfortunately not. Yeah, it was a strange game. And we will get into the football, but first things first, as an occasion with fans and everything it was you know it was very very

different from what we've experienced over the course of the last year i have to say on a personal

level i did feel very very privileged to be there of course you know of course it's it's a privilege

to go to all the games that have taken place over the last year but simply having a few thousand

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