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Hello, everybody, I'm Danny Kelly, I'm Danny Kelly.

I'm your host for The View from the Lane, the Athletics Tottenham Hotspur podcast.

I hope you start to realise it's the best Tottenham Hotspur podcast with all due respect to our rivals.

On the show with me today are the Athletics Charlie Eccleshare and James Moore,

who are both at the game between Spurs and Chelsea, which we'll get onto very, very soon. It is a hydra-headed amount of things that we've got to discuss about that game. We'll do that at length a little later in the show. But I think we should start today by remembering what you could call a club legend, but in fact, he is one of the great legends of English football. Jimmy Greaves passed away this weekend at the age of 81. Of course, the television, the radio was absolutely full of it, and tributes were paid at the stadium before the game yesterday. Charlie, you were there. Tell us about the atmosphere inside the ground. Yeah, I mean, it was very celebratory, I'd say more than mournful, which, you know, I think is how it should be. And before the game, you know, a number of Tottenham legends came out and, you know, kind of paid their tributes.

There was lots going on, you know, there were kind of people being interviewed before the game on the big screen and that sort of thing.

So, yeah, I mean, that was certainly the impression from kind of where we were in the press

seats, but I don't know, James, was that kind of echoed kind of around the ground?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, obviously, it's quite fitting to be playing Chelsea, you know, on that day.

It's not often that you want to be playing against Chelsea, you want Chelsea fans that day, it's not often that you want Spurs to be playing against

Chelsea, you want Chelsea fans to be in the stadium. But I think it did seem quite suitable that

it was the two sides that he probably represented with the most distinction. I know,

West Hampton made claim he did well led to and obviously was at Milan and Barnett and wherever else.

But I think Spurs and Chelsea would be the two teams still be remembered most fondly for playing

for. And yeah, the atmosphere was very respectful but also, you know, a celebration rather

than, as you say, too sorrowful. And I mean, you know, there are so many references to his

goal scoring record. And it is absolutely incredible that goal scoring record. And we talk about

Kane's goal scoring record, but it really puts that into the shadows. It's a ludicrous

number of goals. Because I happen to have seen him play and to Saw his television career,

you're both too young probably even to remember his television career.

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