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There are reasons to be a little fearful

as for now steps away and leaves it to Aaron Cresswell

and whips the corner of course the leg, Danny.

Hello everybody, I'm Danny Kelly. This is the View from the Lane, the Athletics Top and Hotsburgh podcast.

I suppose we should be playing a Russian funereal music behind us because I suspect this is going to be quite a tricky show to get through on the show today.

Helping me with that trickiness are the athletics Jack Pitt Brook and James Moore.

Look, I'll start with you, James, because you've got your Spurs supporting hat on.

How did you feel at full time after watching Spurs' defeat at West Ham yesterday?

I've carefully chosen the most neutral words possible. Tottenham's narrow defeat has West Ham yesterday. That's just, I've carefully chosen the most neutral words possible.

Tottenham's narrow defeat at West Ham yesterday. Yeah, don't think you're going to be able to sway me

on this. It's pretty deflating, wasn't it? I mean, to what, you know, I thought Spurs played

reasonably well against Villa and actually against Newcastle. I thought they

probably could have won the game four or five one on the balance of play. So take such a big step

back with what was really quite a sort of meek and cowardly performance, particularly in a second

half when it didn't even have a shot on goal. It was actually worse than I expected. I said to you

just before we started recording that I expected to birds to lose, but actually I kind of expected a bit more fight than that. Yeah, it was pretty, it's pretty bleak, really. Yeah, I guess what I would say is that after a couple of weeks of trepidaciously building them up and people listening to our voices, well, for the games against Newcast and I said, listen to these lot, whistling in the the dark ignoring what's actually going on there and this is the really frightening thing you could you could argue it was a

return to the mean that that is what spurs are now a team with one or two talented players but essentially

a mid-table team that's going to struggle unmercifully and the way it's currently set up to make chances for those

good players against anything other than the most lackadaisical opposition, which, for instance,

Newcastle provided on the day. We're both still being very careful in our choice of words.

Let's get a neutral, if expert eye on this. A grown-up. Jack, yeah, the grown-up in the room,

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