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Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Hotspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook.

I'm joined again today by James Moore and Charlie Eccleshare. Right now, we're offering listeners the opportunity to try out The Athletic for free. You can enjoy all of our writing on Spurs, including Charlie's recent piece on how sensible recruitment can help Spurs move on from the Marissio-Pocitino era. just go to theathletic.com forward slash Spurs pod to sign up for 30-day free trial. That's theathletic.com forward slash Spurs Pod.

We are just days away from the start of the new Premier League season. Of course, we have three

new episodes of the Amazon documentaries to talk about first, but Tottenham just played their final friendly, losing two

one away at Watford. Charlie, are any positives that can be taken from this?

The fact that Son Jungmin has confirmed that he is the fittest man in the world with that

kind of mad dash to make a clearance off his own line right at the

end of the game. So well done to son. Positive going to season. It's hard to say, isn't it?

I mean, I guess the fact that players got a few more minutes in their legs, yeah, that obviously

sounds like damning with the faintest of praise, but it wasn't great.

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