Late heartbreak against Brighton - Can we take the positives?
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Host Kate Mason is joined by The Athletic's James Maw, Jack Pitt-Brooke and Jay Harris to discuss: our emotions after a topsy-turvy game against Brighton on Saturday, Spurs' prospects of relegation, a much more positive selection and performance, Xavi Simons incredible goal (& celebration), plus RDZ and his role in picking the players back up ahead of a crucial last five games of the season.
HOST: Kate Mason
WITH: Jack Pitt-Brooke, James Maw, Jay Harris
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to the multi-award winning Spurs podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:30.7 | It is, of course, The View from the Lane. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Kate Mason. |
| 0:37.2 | Joining me today are James Moore, Jack Pitbrook and Jay Harris. Well, we've had 24 hours to consider what went on |
| 0:41.1 | in that game after the 95th minute equaliser deprived Spurs, their first win in the league |
| 0:47.7 | since December 28th. Roberta Derserby said he will send home anyone not smiling from training today. |
| 0:56.1 | Jack Pitt, Brooke, are you smiling on your microphone? |
| 1:00.6 | Um, I'm, I can smile about some things. |
| 1:05.2 | I can smile, smiling about the performance on Saturday. |
| 1:09.3 | Obviously, the result was bad, I think, and the feeling, like, the way that the feeling switched |
| 1:18.7 | from, oh, wow, the first win since December, this is amazing. |
| 1:22.8 | And like, the vibes in the stadium after the Seaman's goal were incredible, uh, to the absolute sucker punch |
| 1:28.9 | of the Ritter Equalizer. And I think, I think I managed between like Saturday, for like the |
| 1:35.0 | first half of Sunday I was trying to take the positives. And when Notting and Forrest were losing to |
| 1:39.6 | Burnley, I was very able to take the positives. I think my, I take the positives, Kate, was slightly eroded by that forest comeback. |
| 1:48.7 | But nevertheless, I do think there are definitely some positive signs from Saturday that I think people need to be cling to between now and next Saturday. |
| 1:58.4 | Okay. |
| 1:59.0 | Do you want to immediately enumerate them or should we spread them out over the course of the podcast? |
| 2:02.4 | Spread them out. |
| 2:03.3 | Yeah, right. |
| 2:04.4 | James, I felt as though it was so, obviously it was so cruel the fact that the equalizer, the equalizer twice. |
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