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Spurs in full cry here.

La Gala! Welcome, listeners to the extra inch.

My name's Wendy and I'm joined by my sidekick and best friend

Bardi. Hello, Bardi. Hello, Wendy. And our stand-in tactics guys, Kish, hi Kish.

How you doing? Good. Very good. Very good boys. I feel like a weight has been lifted this weekend.

Do you know what I mean? Hope. Hope is a wonderful thing.

For a long time I've had none.

And then it kind of progressed from zero hope into like a fool's hope.

And now it's just genuine, genuine hope.

There's genuine light at the end of the tunnel.

And I feel like we can save ourselves.

We don't need to rely on anyone else anymore. I think we can get it done, Wendy.

It's like genuinely we have been just watching other results come in

week after week after week.

And that is not a position we've been in very often before

other than when we've been battling for Champions League places

and kind of hoping other teams do us a favour.

But not to the same kind of soul-destroying degree that we've been battling for Champions League places and kind of hoping that other teams do us a favor, but not to the same kind of soul-destroying degree that we've been doing it recently. And like Barley says, we don't really, I mean, obviously we're going to be keeping in either results, but we don't need to because it's in our hands. And now it feels absolutely wonderful. I did feel good about this weekend.

I was a bit, people said I was too optimistic on the pod last week.

I felt good about Brentford doing us a favour.

Brentford had accumulated something like five expected goals and scored from none of them in two of their previous three games. And West Ham were about level with us over the last six

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