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Well, it was a slog.

It took much longer to win than some of us might have expected.

But Charlie, they got there in the end, didn't they?

They did.

Similar, I guess, to the Burnley away win.

And to a degree to the Brighton home win, you know, these were games where the fluency of early season wasn't there, but they were a lot more solid against,

you know, pretty dogged opposition. It was just one of those games where you have to get through it, you have to get the win if you're, you know, serious about challenging for the title.

And they did it. Yeah, it's not a win that will live long in the memories probably, but it really didn't matter, especially the tight turnaround from Thursday. It was just, you know, go there, get the three points and move on, move on to Man City in two weeks' time. And how nice is this international break now that you can, you know, reflect on another victory and keep looking at the league table and it's, it's pretty

good viewing if you're a Spurs fan. Well, I don't know about that. Just the idea of being Lester top of the league is just brings back a lot of bad memory. True. Yeah. You just look down, don't look out. Well, that's true. I was very pleased with the result. I mean, the performance wasn't incredible. It was pretty dogged, as you say, Charlie.

But the number of times I've seen, and every single spouser fan listening to this will have bad

memories of games against West Brom, including the most recent one towards the end of 1718 when

West Brom went down. But beat Spurs 1-0, and Spurs were absolute garbage that day. They were terrible. And that really was kind of the beginning of the end of the Pochitino era, I guess, because the end of that season, they kind of stumbled over the line. They stumbled through the whole next season as well. I've lost that game 1-0. I think there's a thing among Spurs fans of Spurs drawing every single game against West Bram, West Brom one, one.

I think that's happened to up eight in the last 14 maybe or something stupid like that. So a ludicrous number. It is incredible. And obviously the worst one being in that season that Leicester won the league, which is actually the game that, if any one game across Spurs the title, it was that way.

Yeah, the West Bromheim game that he drew 1-1, where I think Craig Dawson scored at both ends of the pitch, I think. Yeah, you're right, the game where Deli Alley whacked, the guy who's named I forgot before, and I've now forgotten again, Claudia Yaak, thank you. Yeah, whacked him in the stomach.

So, yeah, I think, I mean, I just think West Brom looked solid defensively.

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