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Hello, everyone, I'm Danny Kelly, and this is The View from the Lane, the Athletics Tottenham Hotspur podcast, number one podcast on the planet relating to Spurs, in which there are only 2,000 other Spurs podcasts that you would do very well to ignore.

Now, today I'm joined by Jack Pitt Brook to reflect on Antonio Conte's first game in charge

of Spurs.

We'll also be joined by the 30s Italian football writer James Horncastle, legendary James Horncastle,

who will give us the lowdown on Conte and Paritici's relationship.

I also hear from James about Conte's backroom staff, and the players he may look to target the January transfer window and beyond. First Jack, I think it's beholden for the joy of the Spurs fans listening for us, have a quick talk about the game. We'll come back to it, about the game last night before we discussed it in more details, I say later the show you were there did you enjoy it yeah it reminded me why i first fell in love with the

Europa Conference League as a boy you know it was so exciting five goals three red cards lots of

some good football some bad football yeah not very Antonio Conte in some ways but yeah it was fun. Yeah, I must say I absolutely loved it. It was a Spurs masterclass, wasn't it, in the ups and downs and all the rest of it. It was a brilliant game of football, regardless of what competition it was in. And as I always say in situations, I know it's a cliche, it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Welcome, Antonio. That's what goes on at Spurs. And if you can be in charge of that, good luck to you.

We'll talk more about the actual guts of the game a little later on. But I am delighted to say that the Athletics Italian football writer James Horncaste.

He says writer. Zahle, he says writer,

Tsar, King, Overlord, whatever word you choose is more appropriate.

And of course, it is to him that we turn for our detailed knowledge

of the new manager, his relationship with the director of football and all the rest of it.

So in the last, apart from Ryan Mason about whom we have almost intimate knowledge, suddenly,

next to his name in the car park, among the coaching staff, James, are just a whole lot of

other largely Italianate names that I don't know. Who are these men?

Well, some of them have worked or played under Conte

in the past. Conte has actually played under one of them himself. Which one is that? That is Champiero

Ventrione, the Marine, the fitness coach who's come in. They worked together at Juventus during the 90s,

which I think draws with it some attention as well. I mean, he's someone who is known as

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