Welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.

Tottenham Hotspur will appoint a third head coach of the season after Igor Tudor's 44-day tenure came to an end by mutual agreement on Sunday.

Talks are underway with the former Brighton and Marcy coach Roberto Deserby,

but with just seven Premier League games remaining,

will Spur's latest gamble save them from relegation?

England's 1-1 draw with Uruguay at Wembley won't live long in the memory,

but we'll be asking who passed or failed Thomas Tuchel's trials.

And, as a new survey reveals that 75% of fans don't want VAR in the Premier League,

what would it actually take to scrap the controversial technology?

I'm Gregor Robertson, and joining me today, we have the Times Football Reporter with a focus on Spurs,

the poor sod, it's Tom Allnut.

And speaking to us from Insight, the barrels of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium,

it's the Times tactical analyst, Hamza Khalik Loonat. Hamza, I should add, is preparing to hear from Thomas Tuchel at the England press conference in Tottenham. We'll turn our focus to England in the second half of the show. But first, far more pressing concerns in North London right now, Tom, like who's going to be Spurs third manager of the season what can you tell us

can I have poor sod on my time profile it was up to me yeah I mean another week

isn't it another Spurs head coach you know drama uncertainty chaos I mean where

are we this morning I basically Spursurs. I think, you know,

it's ever since early last week when the club, I think, were minded to move on from Ica Tudor after

what has been a clearly ill-fated and unsuccessful interim spell. I think the feeling in the

club was that if they could, they wanted to make a permanent appointment this time, in part because of the lessons from the Tudor spell, which, you know, one of the main things I think that he struggled with was kind of the authority, you know, over the squad, a lack of kind of long-term buy-in, I guess. And in part, I think that's, you know, maybe on Tudor and

his personality and his strategy and his approach, but also it's, you know, kind of baked into the idea of an interim manager, right? So I think the club felt if it was possible to make an appointment that was permanent this time, that would give them the best chance of staying up. Now, I think there was a recognition, definitely it's Burrs, that that may not be possible.

You know, it's clear everyone can see why the kind of the best chance of staying up. Now, I think there was a recognition, definitely, at Spurs,

that that may not be possible. You know, it's clear. Everyone can see why the kind of permanent managers that Spurs would be interested in the summer, Pochitino, Deserbi,

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