Simons impresses against Brentford + Loan watch, Poch & Champions League
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Host Danny Kelly is joined by The Athletic's James Maw and Jay Harris to discuss a MUCH needed win at home against Brentford on Saturday. They talk Xavi Simons and his performance of the season so far, Archie Gray in midfield, RKM and Richarlison up front, Romero's rash tackle and Bentancur.
They also chat about Pochettino's recent comments, preview the Champions League and Vuskovic/Mikey Moore's successful loans.
HOST: Danny Kelly
WITH: James Maw, Jay Harris
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC. |
| 0:07.5 | Hello, Ron, and welcome once again to The View from the Lane, the Athletics Top and Mottsburgh podcast. |
| 0:29.4 | It's won awards, and we love the fact that you're here with us twice a week. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm Danny Kelly and with me today from The Athletic, Jay Harris and James Moore. Good morning to |
| 0:39.0 | them. I suppose it was a real work-a-day victory, this sort of thing we might normally expect. |
| 0:45.2 | We had Brentford come, we swap them aside, everyone's happy. But given the home form over the past |
| 0:50.0 | year and the situation with the crowd and all the rest that's been going on. |
| 0:54.6 | It was James actually a very important win and one that we kind of needed a small |
| 1:00.4 | C celebrate. |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah, I think you're right. |
| 1:02.5 | I think that's a very good way of describing it. |
| 1:04.1 | It was mostly fairly kind of run up the mill. |
| 1:08.8 | I mean, I think if you plonk that in the context of another season, it would be one of those podcasts where we're kind of struggling for the subject matter, but as it was off the back of what's happened over the last kind of, what, like six weeks or so. And I guess, you know, you had to work in some of the Javi Simone stuff, you know, his first goal and enough. Plenty to say. It's a pretty big deal. Yeah, very encouraging. It wasn't like an earth-shattering, earth-moving performance or result, but it was, I'd say, a decent size step in the right direction. Jay, we tease you by calling it the Jay Harris Derby, but of course you're strictly Spurs these days. |
| 1:44.9 | What are your overall impressions of the game? Because as I say, in the context, Spurs needed to |
| 1:50.4 | perform and win, and they did both things to different. Obviously, they won to 100%. |
| 1:56.1 | You can't, you know, that can either win or lose, isn't it? Also, they played okay too. |
| 2:02.2 | Yeah, I think this time a week ago, it felt like everything was doom and gloom, |
| 2:06.6 | and to get a point away at St. James's Park in really difficult conditions, |
| 2:10.8 | and then beat Brentford is sort of, feels like the Thomas Frank project is back on track, |
| 2:15.9 | and it's regained some sort of crucial momentum, |
| 2:18.9 | especially with a game against Slavia Prague on Tuesday, which should be looking to win as well. |
| 2:24.3 | I'm sure we'll go on in more depth on Javi Simons in a minute, but straight away when the |
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