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Hello everyone. I'm Danny Kelly and this is The View from the Lane, the Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Mighty Athletic.

I'm joined today by the athletics Jack Pitt Brook and James Moore as we build up to return in the Premier League and Spurs his game against Leeds on Sunday.

But first before we get into the game against Leeds, James, on Monday's in a podcast,

we were discussing Harry Kane getting close to breaking the England all-time goals record.

It may happen even sooner we thought after his performance against Sam Marina.

I think you were at the game, Jack.

I was at the game, yeah. Kane scored,

what, four goals to go with the three that he scored against Albania on Friday night. So

an amazing international break for him. I have to say, I thought the game was a disgrace. I thought

it was just so bad. It was just not a football match, really, in any kind of conventional sense.

It was, you know, if England had played Dulich Hamlet, they would have got a better game. And if they played Dulich Hamlet, I could have walked home or got the 484 bus. Depends if they had played Dalich Hamlet away, you could have walked home. But if it had been at Wembley, you would have probably selected. It would be a long walk back to Nunhead.

But it was, yeah, I just think that I know that when I say this, you get called elitist. And I understand that. But I just don't see the, I don't really see the competitive value in these games taking place. You know, you just mentioned, Stortport and Bolton the FAA Cup In the FA Cup, Tottenham go in at the third round. You know, everyone has, obviously everyone has a right to play in the FA Cup, you know, the dog and duck. They have a right to play in the FA Cup, but they don't have a right to play Tottenham Hotspur. You know, if you're a tiny little club, a tiny club as small as, for example, Kingstonian, if you want to play Tottenham Hotspur. You know, if you're a tiny little club, a tiny club as small as, for example,

Kingstonian, if you want to play Tottenham... Or Marine, let's say. To pick a... Or Marine. Yeah. Marine had to play like seven games. Yeah, probably more. To play Tottenham. Yeah, probably. Seven or eight, I think. Playing teams at different levels. I'm not saying the World Cup should be,

well-cup qualifies should be like the FA Cup,

but I don't think that everyone has a right to play everyone else.

And I think that when people say, oh, it's elitist to say that, well, to an extent, like,

elitism is part of what we're looking for because it's competitive international sport at the highest level.

Like the World Cup is an inherently elitist activity

or finding the best football team in the world.

And it's not like we should, you know,

be allocating who plays in the World Cup by Tombola

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