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

My name is Jack Pitbrook.

I'm your host.

We're still at Whiteheart Lane.

It's almost 9pm.

I'm here with Charlie Eccleshare, Totham correspondent, and Liam Twoswomen, Chelsea correspondent.

It's been a very interesting and dramatic and in some parts depressing afternoon here at Tottenham

because of the allegation of racism that Tony Rudigone made during the second half,

which led to the unprecedented reading out of a statement three times by the announcer.

It's never happened in the Premier League game before. It's following the

new FIFA, New AFA, new A4 Protocols, as well as the Premier League separate protocol. And

it really did lead to a sort of really horrible sad atmosphere, didn't it, Charlie, in the second

half? Yeah, well, I think that's the right words. I mean, it was just so depressing that

this was happening. I think there was sort of disbelief around us in the

press box that it could be happening, you know, it's, yeah, it's just such a shame that that's

what we're talking about, you know, shame for Chelsea from their point of view that it's overshadowed

what was a really, a really impressive result and performance and, you know, no player should have to go through that. And yeah, it does feel like it's a situation that's getting

worse rather than better. What did you think about the racism? Did you, did you, could you see

the Chelsea players thinking, talking about it during the game? I missed it in real time, but then

you can clearly see on the TV cameras that

Rudiger is making the monkey chant gesture and saying to the referee, listen out for it.

And he said he told, Cesar Is Pilaquetta, he told the ref and that's how the process went from there.

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