Spurs appoint Igor Tudor as interim + James Horncastle joins!
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Host Danny Kelly is joined by The Athletic's James Maw and Dan Kilpatrick to discuss Spurs' appointment of Igor Tudor as interim head coach. They're also joined by The Athletic's Italian football expert James Horncastle who gives the low-down on Tudor's managerial career in Italy.
HOST: Danny Kelly
WITH: James Maw, Dan Kilpatrick, James Horncastle
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC. |
| 0:03.1 | Hello everybody and here we are once again with an emergency podcast of The View from the Lane. |
| 0:29.0 | They're all winning and now very frequent podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Danny Kelly with me from The Athletic are James Moore and Dan Kilpatrick. |
| 0:37.9 | And once again the bat signal has gone up. |
| 0:40.0 | We've all had to assemble because as we understand it, Spurs have a new interim emergency manager in the form of Igor Chudor, |
| 0:47.7 | hard man central midfielder and central defender for Juventus and Croatia back in the day. |
| 0:53.2 | And with that in mind, and we've got a third guest for you right now. He is our Italian football expert, James Horncasten. We're delighted because he's got so much work to do today that he's joined us here on the view from the lane. James, I'm going to go straight into you here, and we're going to ask you a series of impertinent questions which lean heavily on your knowledge of Italian football. Is this a good appoint for Spurs in the terrible place that they are at the moment? |
| 1:15.2 | Well, I mean, look, Igor Tudor has a lot of experience of coming in and doing this kind of job. |
| 1:21.2 | You know, he, yeah, his last couple of positions in Italy have been exactly this, coming in a little bit later, actually, |
| 1:29.3 | in March when team seasons have gone off the rails, not as badly as Tottenham's, I must say. |
| 1:37.3 | We're talking about teams that have risked not qualifying for Europe. |
| 1:42.3 | So Lazio two years ago, all of a sudden Marizio Sari resigned. |
| 1:48.0 | He stepped in, ensured they got into the Europa League. This time last year, |
| 1:54.0 | Juventus kind of hit the skids, looked like they weren't going to qualify for Champions |
| 1:58.0 | League. He came in and ensured they did qualify for the |
| 2:01.1 | Champions League. So in terms of a guy who can come in and do a job, you know, he's done enough |
| 2:08.5 | in both of those jobs at Lazio and Juventis to make fans and owners think, oh, we might as well |
| 2:15.5 | give him it next season. |
| 2:21.1 | That was the case at Lazio, but he left Lazio because he fell out with the owner who was prepared to keep him on |
| 2:24.8 | because he wouldn't sign on a permanent basis. |
| 2:30.2 | What's the Japanese player who's gone to Palace? |
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