Mourinho's Endgame
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke and James Maw debate whether Jose Mourinho's reign at Spurs is coming to and end, after this weekend's defeat to Manchester City.
If results continue to go this way, could Spurs sack Jose before the end of the season? Or is it more likely that Daniel Levy decides to stick with him into next season? And if he is to stay, what does he need to achieve to keep his job?
Plus, we get the lowdown on the team's Europa League opponents.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:21.8 | My name is Jack Pitbrook, and I'm joined, as always, by James Moore. |
| 0:25.7 | Later on today's show, we will be doing a segment on Wolfsburger AC, |
| 0:30.5 | Tottenham's Europa League opponents on Thursday night. |
| 0:33.1 | But right now, James, there's only one place to start, and that is the Etihad Stadium. |
| 0:37.1 | Spurs have |
| 0:37.7 | had some amazing games at the Etiads Stadium over the years. I think the Champions League quarter-final second leg, that four or three is probably the best game I've ever been to, I think. It's the best game I've seen Spurs lose. Yeah, I think. The two-one, the two-one win in 2016 was fantastic in its own way. |
| 0:55.6 | You know, they even got a two-all draw at the start of last season, which I think was a bit lucky, but whatever. Saturday's game, I thought, was terrible. I thought it was genuinely one of the worst games I'd seen all season, just in terms of the absolute lack of any kind of drama or tension or excitement at all. |
| 1:11.5 | It wasn't a game in the vein of those games you just mentioned that were all kind of |
| 1:14.7 | blood and thunder and two decent teams, two kind of footballing joggernauts, kind of going |
| 1:20.5 | at each other. |
| 1:21.8 | Even in that early season game last season you just mentioned, where your right spurs were |
| 1:25.9 | probably inferior on the day but still came away of a point. |
| 1:29.1 | That kind of set the tone for the XG nonsense that's existed in the last few Spursman |
| 1:33.5 | City games before this one. |
| 1:35.0 | But yeah, it was just, spurs were incredibly passive and not in the way that they were |
| 1:40.6 | in the previous two games against City, the two-noil victories in 2020. |
| 1:45.8 | In between that Hurricane three kick that hit the inside of the post on, what, |
| 1:49.4 | sort of 15 minutes? |
| 1:50.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:51.2 | And that bail, amazing run and relatively sort of weak shot at Edison on what may be sort of 85. |
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