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and the continued misery at Newcastle.

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what is the significance of Trent Alexander Arnold's admission from the squad?

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Well, let's start the pod by talking about Totman.

We'll start with you, Jack, on this.

James Marini got some questions after the game against Villa.

Oh, did that feel like getting back on track after a difficult week?

And I don't know about you, but watching it, it felt like it was same old Tottenham, really.

They just managed to scrape a win this time.

Yeah, certainly in the first half hour, I thought, oh my God, it's happening again.

Marini obviously picked a very, very different team for, I think, quite interesting reasons, but they were shambolic at the start. And it really, it was a kind of game where if Jack Gerelish had been playing for Villa, I'm sure Villa would have won. Tottenham eventually ended up scoring at the right times, holding off Villa. I thought by the second half, they did actually look pretty comfortable and it was the best they played for a few weeks. Whether or not it's a solution to the

problems that Tottenham been having, I don't know. I mean, you know, Tottenham have won games,

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