Spurs fail to secure safety against Chelsea away! + Maddison, Randal Kolo Muani, referee decisions & much more!!
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Host Kate Mason is joined by The Athletic's Jay Harris and Jack Pitt-Brooke, fresh from their trip to Stamford Bridge last night, where they witnessed a 2-1 defeat to Spurs' arch rivals. A defeat which means their fight for survival continues until Sunday and the final day of the Premier League season. They discuss: a lack of technical ability, our thread-bare forward line, Gallagher, RKM, Maddison's introduction off the bench and of course those controversial referee decisions!
HOST: Kate Mason
WITH: Jack Pitt-Brooke, Jay Harris
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:28.0 | It is, of course, The View from the Lane. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm Kate Mason. |
| 0:31.8 | Joining me today are Jack Pittbrook and Jay Harris. |
| 0:35.9 | And I think it's only right for us to start by saying a huge congratulations to a worthy side that have battled brilliantly through a long season and really earned the right to celebrate their success with their fans at the weekend. |
| 0:49.3 | Middlesbrough, congrats on making it through to the championship playoff. |
| 0:52.3 | Final best of luck at Wembley to business. |
| 0:56.6 | So Spurs battle to save their Premier League status will go to the final day of the season on Sunday after last night's 2-1 defeat to Chelsea. |
| 1:07.4 | I have to say, Jack, heading into this one, I had no sense that we would come away with |
| 1:12.8 | anything other than a defeat. We know the deal with Chelsea. We know, you know, one in 40 |
| 1:19.1 | at the bridge. We know the story. And of course, the fact that Chelsea had lost at the weekend |
| 1:24.5 | and Tottenham are doing what we're doing. I don't know. I didn't think |
| 1:30.1 | we'd get anything out of this, but the pure reality of the fact that we then haven't, and now |
| 1:35.5 | this will go on to the final day of the season, is something I actually wasn't ready to confront. |
| 1:42.5 | I don't know if you have any supportive views to start things off. |
| 1:47.7 | I don't want to like, hey, I thought supposed to have a good chance. Chelsea hadn't won a home |
| 1:53.1 | league game since January. They'd had the FA Cup final on Saturday. They've got, you know, |
| 1:58.8 | they're coming to the end of Callan McFarlane's second interim |
| 2:01.2 | spell in charge. I didn't think it was an intimidating Chelsea lineup that was put out. I thought |
| 2:06.8 | that Tottenham had not a good chance, but a decent chance of getting something. Remember, |
| 2:11.3 | they only needed a point. So I didn't want to be too, I didn't want to be too confident on |
| 2:17.1 | the last podcast, but yeah, I was, I thought Spurs |
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