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It is, of course, time for The View from the Lane.

I'm Kate Mason, and joining me today are James Moore, Jack Pittbrook and Dan Kilpatrick.

The Roberto Deserby era has started then and it has continued where we left off with another defeat.

Spurs started the day in the relegation zone now.

They are two points behind West Ham, three behind Forest and Leeds.

They have only six games remaining to stay in the Premier

League. What, if anything, James Moore are we clinging to right now? Delusion, maybe? That's probably

the one thing that can save me for the next week i mean look

it's an incredibly low bar but i did see some kind of green chutes of improvement

but they were kind of tiny tiny steps the size of which the gate of which think, needs to broaden quite a lot over the next

couple of games for Spurs to have any chance of staying up now.

There is definitely a situation where by the end of next weekend or by 10 o'clock next Monday

evening, I think West Ham play on Monday night, I mean Spurs could be more than one game adrift, effectively more than three points adrift, and that is a situation. I mean, it's hard to see a way back from there, isn't it? Well, Kinski had a good game done. Insofar as I'm clinging to anything, it's not related to Spurs. It's an Arsenal collapse.

You know, I'm clinging to Nicco O'Reilly and Erling Harland and Bernardo Silver and the lads.

And that's my form of hope at this point of the season.

But seriously, seriously, like, the weekend would have been so much worse if City hadn't't won against Chelsea so I'm looking to that and

then I've got I don't want to start on such a bum note but I've got relatively little optimism

for spurs at the moment I think we'll come on to it but in so far as I felt there were green shoots

from yesterday it was actually in what deserve he said rather than what I saw on the pitch. He said some things that we've kind of been saying on this pod previously afterwards. He said afterwards, they don't need a coach. I can be a father and a brother, which kind of spoke to, I think, the point we've made, or James made very eloquently a while ago that kind of vibes were the only thing that can save Spurs now and spoke to the fact that he's not going to come in and try and play a derby ball in these last seven now six games he's going to come in and try and do what you know people thought Harry Rednapp or Tim Sherwood might do and kind of put an arm around the shoulders of the players and tell them they're great and I think he also said you know only need one win, which again speaks to a point we made on this pod a number of times that just one win, you know, and Jack will come on to Jack's piece about luck. But one win, you know, one goal off someone's backside and perhaps everything could change. And I think the fact that Deserby kind of recognises those two things that, you know,

he's not going to coach his way out of this situation with philosophy. He's going to kind of

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