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Jose Marino has been Tottenham manager for 15 months, three transfer windows and 75 matches,

and yet he says that there are problems in the team that he cannot resolve by himself as a coach.

In which case, after five defeats in the last six league games and 12 points in the last 12,

we have to ask, who else is fault can it be?

My name is Jack Pitbrook. You're listening to

The View from the Lane podcast. I'm joined today, as always, by James Moore and later on by a special

guest, Dom Fyfield. Well, James, after watching Tottenham's defeat at West Ham on Sunday, who else's

thought can it be? I mean, you can't overlook those individual errors and we've talked about the defensive

errors many, many times over the course of the season, except in that kind of six-week

sweet spot in the autumn. But I mean, in defending on both of those goals, I know a lot was said

about their defending on the first goal and the fact that that Dyer let the man run and just

basically was completely flat-footed from that cross. But for me, the second goal was bad as well.

Like, Sanchez and Dyer both kind of seemingly making kind of independent movements from each other

and not knowing where the other one had gone, pushing right up when at least one of the fullbacks

was much deeper. I mean, it was just an absolute shambles. But as we know, and as we've

discussed before, all of that does come back to the manager. So, sure, I think it would be

incredibly unfair to say the manager was entirely to blame for that defeat and for Spurs general slump over

the last two months or three months. But he has to shoulder a decent percentage of that, I'd

say. I agree with you. Like I find it kind of surprising that Marino thinks that the fact that

the defenders are playing so badly, which they clearly are. You know, nobody would claim that Eric Dyer, Aldwere,

or Sanchez is having a good season.

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