The Athletic FFC. Yeah, hello everybody once again.

Full crew for The View from the Lane,

the podcast that does know how many times Christian Romero has been sent off.

I'm Danny Kelly with me today from The Athletic, Jay Harris, Dan Kilpatrick and James Moore. Welcome

One, welcome all. Later in the podcast, James will be unveiling his 10 people responsible

for the mess at Tottenham. We've not heard this. We're going to be doing it sight unseen,

whatever the audio equivalent of that is. I can't wait. But first, we have to talk about Manchester United.

A pretty frustrating game, which leaves all the questions we were asking a few days ago about Christian Romero,

I guess, very much to the front and centre, because if you should look at the chart of how the game was progressing, it is extraordinary

how the little red rectangle correlates with Manchester United completely taking over the game.

Dan, I'll start with you because, you know, where do we go with this? I mean, I have my own

pretty strong views about this, but I'm

interested in what you think. Yeah, I think Spurs have a big problem, and I do feel a degree

of sympathy for Frank on this one. I think at the moment he's damned if he does and he damned if he

doesn't, because as Jack pointed out last week, there's no one really at the club with the political capital to punish Romero or indeed to take the captaincy away from him.

So I don't think there's much the club can really do to sanction him after a reckless piece of play, let's be honest, that has put him out of action for the next four games.

But equally, I think doing nothing just continues to look a bit weak.

So I feel like Romero is a nightmare on and off the pitch at the moment, to be honest.

And I get that a lot of fans like his message.

And there's a big part of me that really likes his kind of message,

his holding the board to account. There's a lack of accountability across elite football. And at Tottenham in particular, you know, we've talked about this before. We do not hear from the owners. We do not hear from the executives. And it's very difficult for us as journalists to hold them to account. It's difficult for fans to hold them to account. So for Romero to do that is great, but if you're going to do that, you've got to be kind of impeccable on the pitch, I think. You know, when Harry Kane was doing it, when he was coming out and doing mixed own interviews and saying standards are slipped, great, because you knew that Kane was upholding the highest standards. It was blindingly obvious. For Romero to come out and say,

we haven't got enough players.

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