League Cup Final, Super League, Ryan Mason & Vladimir Lenin
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke and James Maw are together for a second time this week to build up to this weekend's League Cup Final against Manchester City.
They also reflect on a week that saw Mourinho sacked and the club sign up and pull out of the breakaway Super League.
To read Jack's article on the downfall of Mourinho go to www.theathletic.com/spurspod
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:18.0 | There are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen. |
| 0:23.1 | Not my words, but the words of Vladimir Lenin, who died in 1924, |
| 0:27.7 | it might well have been describing Tottenham Hotspur in April 2021. |
| 0:31.6 | You're listening to the View for the Lane podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | My name is Jack Pittbrook. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm joined as always by James Moore. |
| 0:36.3 | This is our second and hopefully |
| 0:37.7 | final podcast in what I think has been one of the most dramatic weeks in the modern history |
| 0:42.0 | of Tottenham Hotspur. Since the Everton game on Friday night, they have signed up to a coup |
| 0:46.5 | against the fabric of world football, sacked their manager, appointed Ryan Mason as interim head |
| 0:51.6 | coach, withdrawn from the Super League in humiliating circumstances, |
| 0:55.2 | beaten Southampton 2-1 at home amid fan protests and are now trying to save their season, |
| 1:00.4 | win the League Cup at Wembley, get back into Europe and find a new manager. |
| 1:03.6 | The due luck's dog was only one week ago. |
| 1:06.0 | James, you must be absolutely emotionally exhausted. |
| 1:08.5 | I know I am. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm emotionally exhausted just from that intro, let alone know all that stuff actually happening. |
| 1:14.7 | Yes. |
| 1:15.6 | Essentially, yes. |
| 1:16.6 | It's been an absolutely ludicrous week to support Tottenham Hotspur. |
| 1:20.3 | I genuinely forgotten about that stupid dog. |
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