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Tomlin fans, these are some of the teams that your team are likely to face in next season's

Europa Conference League. If Spurs stay where they are in the Premier

League at the moment, it's obviously very different from the Champions League teams that Spurs

used to play only two years ago. This is where Spurs' season is heading, unfortunately. My name's

Jack Pitbrook. You're listening to the View for the Lane podcast. I'm joined, as always, by James

Moore. How are you feeling about the prospect of Europa Conference League football next year? Should it come to that? I tell you what I'm baffled about. And that's that no one has been able to tell me what day of the week this thing is being played on. Thursday. So this is the same day as Europa League? Yes.

I mean, this is the key question, genuinely the key question for the competition for me,

but they had a week it's on.

With all you respect to those teams, and I know very little about most of them.

Yeah, it doesn't exactly set pulses racing, does it?

Well, no, it's, yeah, I mean, it's strange, isn't it? Because it's a mixture of teams who've done really well from smaller rank countries,

and then teams who finish seventh in the top coefficient leagues.

So I don't know what that will mean for motivation.

You know, will that mean that the big coefficient teams will be much less motivated than the smaller league teams.

Will it be a big chance for those teams to finally win a trophy?

I'm not against the idea of it on those grounds.

I think given that compared to, say, 10, 20, 30 years ago,

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