Our big end of the season review! + awards, club statements and what comes next?
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Host Kate Mason is joined by The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke and Jay Harris to discuss the end of an extremely turbulent season. We talk: a slurry of club statements including from the Lewis family, Vinai Venkatesham's interview, player of the season, moment of the season and what comes next for Tottenham Hotspur.
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HOST: Kate Mason
WITH: Jack Pitt-Brooke, Jay Harris
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome to the multi-award winning Spurs podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:28.1 | It is The View from the Lane. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Kate Mason. |
| 0:31.7 | Joining me today are Jack Pittbrook and Jay Harris. |
| 0:35.4 | And we are a few days on from Spurs surviving in the Premier League and we have |
| 0:42.1 | heard a few hours ago from the Lewis family. We have heard from them. These are the owners of |
| 0:49.0 | Tottenham Hotspur and we have heard for them for the very first time, which is mad to think. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm going to just guys read through the whole letter. |
| 0:58.3 | It's not long, but I think it gives a sense of where we are. |
| 1:03.8 | Here we go. |
| 1:04.9 | To the fans, as owners of 25 years, we have lived the highs and lows of spurs with you. |
| 1:11.0 | Finishing 17th this and last season does not reflect the stature or potential of this football club. |
| 1:17.2 | We are bitterly disappointed and share your frustration. |
| 1:20.5 | You and we expect more than this. |
| 1:23.9 | We know this must never happen again. |
| 1:26.8 | Our approach to running the club is and has been to trust the experts to do that while backing them to be successful. |
| 1:34.5 | The problems we found were deeper than we realised and were allowed to build over the last few years. |
| 1:40.3 | We know this is a road of trust and we have to win that back. As owners, we take ultimate responsibility for the situation in which the club finds itself. We also take responsibility for rebuilding spurs. Our ambition is to recapture the spirit of the club and to bring back the excitement, the fearlessness and the bold football we have always felt defined us. That means football comes first. |
| 2:04.1 | The board and executive team have laid out their plans to meet this ambition. This will require |
| 2:09.4 | investment in our teams, the academy, our backroom functions and more. And we are fully committed |
| 2:15.0 | to this. We are not selling the club. We are all in. We are investing |
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