Hi everyone. It's Adam Levintile back once again. Welcome to the Athletics Premier League

Countdown podcast with the return of the 2019-20 season.

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makes its return. In this episode, we are discussing Tottenham, who sit eighth in the

Premier League table, and we can welcome the Athletics Jack Pitt Brook. Jack, very good to have

you on board. You're also the host of The View from the Lane, our Spurs podcast here at the

Athletic, which has been running episodes all season and throughout the lockdown. But what's

been going on and

what's to come, I guess? Well, it's been a fun time for the podcast. Thanks for having me,

Adam, but it's been, we've been looking at former players, former seasons, old debates. We've done

specials, I think, on almost, it feels like almost every season and anyone who's ever played for Tottenham over the last few months. But we are tremendously excited about getting back to real football. We're going to have a show at the start of next week. Looking forward to the Manchester United game. And then we're going to have a show, I think, straight after the Manchester United game, which is next Friday night, giving us live reaction with hopefully my colleague Charlie Eccleshare who will be at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to discuss it.

Excellent. That sounds very, very good indeed. Look forward to listening. Yeah, and it's worth mentioning that, you know, Charlie as well

is part of the reporting team that covers Tottenham for the Athletic. Let's just rewind back to

pre-lockdown. Just remind us how things were going for Tottenham, because it was a bit choppy,

wasn't it, to say the least? Yeah, things were going very badly.

I think it's safe to say.

They were, Spurs hadn't won in their last six games.

They'd been knocked out of the Champions League 4-0 by R.B. Leipzig in the last 16.

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