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Welcome everybody to the multi-award winning Spurs podcast from The Athletic.

It is, of course, The View from the Lane.

I'm Kate Mason.

Joining me today are James Moore and Jack Pittbrook.

Football returns this weekend.

It's been three weeks since the Forest game.

You, of course, have been with us throughout discussing all the ups and downs of the Spurs' situation.

Naysayers, James Moore, might say that actually it's been a blessed release

not to have to watch Tottenham-Otsburgh play football. What's your take?

Yeah, I think it's been quite nice. I mean, I think we've enjoyed not having to kind of stress

too much about kind of results and whatever. I will admit, this morning I've kind of

woken up with like kind of first day of term,

I guess, feeling of like, yeah, we're back now to kind of suffer this stuff.

And obviously tonight, the West Ham Wolves game is kind of almost as significant as

whatever Spurs do, I guess, in a way. So, yeah, we're

only a few hours away now from being right back in the depths of this horrific situation for another

seven weeks. I do think first day of school is a really good way of thinking about it. I'm really

excited, Kate. It's like, I mean, three weeks is a long time for Tottenham not to play. And I know

that, I know that on

one level it's been nice, but I also think it's also been very weird. It's just, it's kind of,

I think it feels like an unhealthy amount of time between games. And obviously like a lot has

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