Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook and I'm joined again today by James Moore and Charlie Eccleshire.

Tottenham season should really be over by now, but in fact it's actually just starting to get back underway, Charlie, isn't it?

With the return to training this week.

Yeah. And yeah,

and I feel like when play does resume, they'll have a decent chance still of top five and that kind of thing. But yeah, back to, I mean, it's small groups. And the way it's been, as I understand it, is there are like six pitches. And generally you've had like a couple of players on a pitch um you're often using

that half a pitch each so I think it still feels quite um you know different from normal but

you know the players uh from what I was told were really keen to get back to training and

and you can totally understand that I think everyone's keen to get back to you know as much

normality as possible so I think that's keen to get back to, you know, as much normality as possible. So I think that's been, that's been good. And yeah, and that's why you had Marino of cycling around from pitch to pitch, keeping an eye on everything. Son as well was on a bike, I think. So, yeah, it looked like, I mean, training pictures are always described as people at all smiles, aren't they? But those pictures did look like they were all having a jolly nice time. Sometimes you get solemn faces at training when the manager's under pressure. I think that's the cliche. When the manager's under the cost, you get a lot of solemn faces. But I think, yeah, I kind of think of all smiles and then two people sharing a joke as they were put through their paces. Or Reno herring around on a push bike.

Yeah, that's why it stuck out, wasn't it? It was like this doesn't look like the generic

training picture.

So this week, over the weekend, the government announced the stage two of contact training.

Do we expecting this expecting this to get,

to start being integrated into what Spurs do this week?

The feeling I get is that they are,

they're kind of raring to go,

both Marino and the players.

And like,

I can understand that because,

you know,

the players are all coming back

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