Is Everything Going To Be OK?
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke and James Maw discuss whether everything is going to be just fine, after Spurs' victory over West Brom.
Can the win over the relegation candidates really be considered a return to form? Just how over-reliant are this ream on Harry Kane? And what sort of player is 2021 Lamela?
Jack and James also debate what would have been different if Spurs had won the Champions League in 2019?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, Autonom Hotspur podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:22.0 | My name is Jack Pitbrook and I'm joined as always by James Moore. |
| 0:25.5 | Right now, you can subscribe to The Athletic for a special price. |
| 0:29.4 | Enjoy great analysis and in-depth features from the very best football writers around, |
| 0:34.2 | as well as add-free versions of all of our podcasts for less than one pound per week. |
| 0:39.1 | Just go to Theathletic.com forward slash SpursPod to sign up and enjoy The Athletic throughout |
| 0:45.4 | 2021. That's Theathletic.com forward slash Spurs Pod. |
| 0:51.1 | We're going to start today's podcast in a positive way. |
| 0:53.8 | Tottenham won. They won a Premier League |
| 0:55.8 | game for the first time in three weeks. They kept a Premier League clean sheet for the first time |
| 0:59.5 | in five weeks. Harry came back after 10 days out with an ankle trouble, Tangie and Donberlake |
| 1:05.0 | can work in the midfield two. James, everything's going to be okay. |
| 1:11.9 | Everything's going to be okay? |
| 1:18.4 | I mean, I would say your intonation on the second time you said that was probably slightly more accurate. |
| 1:21.4 | The sort of question mark, the rising inflection at the end. |
| 1:27.5 | Three points behind Chelsea and West Ham, four points behind Liverpool, game in hand, fourth is back on. |
| 1:31.0 | Everything will be okay if they can play teams like West Brom every week. |
| 1:36.2 | Unfortunately, you know more about football than I do, but unfortunately I've been made aware that isn't going to be what happens, and they will have to play, with all due respect, |
| 1:40.4 | what I would call proper teams. |
| 1:43.1 | Obviously, you know, it was good to win the game. You can't really ask much more than that. You can only beat what's put in front of you, Jack. And there were, you know, you're right, there were some positives there. Kane coming back so quickly, assuming he doesn't break down again is obviously a massive thing. Seeing a Numblay in that deeper role where he can kind of get the ball rolling |
| 2:01.4 | and orchestrated attacks and further down the pitch, |
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