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Hello and welcome everybody. I'm Danny Kelly, the new host of The View from the Lane,

the aesthetics, fantastic, Topman, Postal podcast. I guess it's fair to say I'll be hosting a show

for the rest of the season. And fantastic news,

following on success of the podcast last season, it's now going to be twice a week. We hope you can join us for all of that. I'm joining in the podcast, of course, by the athletics James Moore

and the athletics Charlie Eccleshare. Jack Pitt Brooke, who you're used to, of course. He's not

been entirely given the elbow. He's had to go to Paris. There's some kind of football story going on there. I'm not quite sure what it is. Listen, thank you very much, indeed, for joining us. Let me say hello first to James. How are you? Yeah, I'm good, Danny. How are you? Very, very good, indeed. Anta Charlie, how are you, Charlie? I'm good. How are you? Very good. I'm very grateful

for you introducing me a few moments ago to the idea of the hard stop, the amount of time you

can actually devote to this podcast to establish my Spurs credentials before we get going.

I'm going to often produce bits of memorabilia.

It doesn't really work, does it, on an audio platform?

But I'll do this and explain to people.

This gentleman is the flag that I took to Wembley and waived.

The last time in Spurs won a trophy.

I think, Charlie, you're probably still

in what they might call prep school.

Certainly none of you had left school

because it's 13 long years ago,

which shows the importance of why we're doing this podcast

and this opening few weeks of the season for Tottenham,

because, of course, we all normally

head into a season full of optimism that this is the year they will win a trophy. I don't think

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