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Hello and welcome podcast from the Lane the Lane, our Tottenham Hotsburgh podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook.

I'm your host and today I'm joined again by Charlie Eccleshare and James Moore in this unusually quiet week for Tottenham Hotspur because it is the winter break.

Charlie, what have Spur's been up to? Having some time off after the Saints game last Wednesday. Yeah,

basically free time, which we saw Marino used yesterday to be at the Leipzig game. And then back to

work today for a full week's training ahead of the Vila game. One of these precious full weeks that

they haven't had many of under Jose. And Marino has had his haircut as well.

Yeah.

This is a thing that he does sometimes when he's quote unquote going to war. Yeah, going to war. There was a Chelsea season where in the first bow where he did it and their results really kicked up. And I think there was a season at Madrid where he did it as well. So for those who haven't seen, he's got that really kind of closely cropped hair now all of a sudden.

Doesn't look great, I don't think.

It doesn't really suit him, my life.

Yeah.

I mean, he's got like really kind of closely cropped hair now all of a sudden. Doesn't look great, I don't think. I mean,

really suit him by that. Yeah. I mean, he had like, it wasn't like, I don't think he was finning

before that, was it? It looked like he had quite a kind of sturdy head and he said, I read, I read some quotes from him where he said he woke up one morning and thought his head didn't look great.

So he decided to have it all shaved off.

And he's one of those things, you know, this can be applied to an awful lot when it comes to Marino. Quite, you know, quite good when he's 40, but now he's 57. It doesn't really have the same effect. Like, you know what I mean? Like, he used to look, he looked amazing with that hair back in the old days yeah um but i actually went

to a this is might be difficult to believe i went to a fancy dress party as jos in merino when i when i was

at university in 2006 and uh i and for which i kind of cut my hair really really short i think i

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