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Another episode for you of The View from the Lane. I'm Cape Mason and joining me today are Jack Pitbrook and James Moore. Welcome Along team. How you feel happy,

happy Easter is it? Not quite, not quite. No, okay. Not until Sunday, I think, but I mean,

obviously like in a broader sense, I think we wish all of our listeners, happy Passover, happy

Easter weekend, happy, you know, double bank holiday.

But yeah, it's obviously a quiet weekend for Tottenham because there's not a lot of football.

I mean, I guess it's just FA Cup and Championship, isn't it, this weekend,

before the Premier League resumes next weekend.

So if I guess from a Spurs perspective, it feels pretty quiet out there. And disappointing for you that you don't get to watch England be beaten by Japan again. Yeah, yeah. So that was, when was that, Tuesday night? That was pretty bad. Like, England, that was built as the game where England were going to, like, have all their best players playing. And they were going to, like, you know, make a statement ahead of the World Cup. And then it turned out that most of the best players were injured and not play, you know, Kane, Saka, Stones, Wright, etc. And England were really bad. It was just like, I guess England are now in that position that Tottenham were in, which is when you have a player as good as Kane, you get so dependent on him, like, all the players get really dependent on him. And then when you suddenly take him out the team, like nobody knows what to do. Like, whenever England play without Kane, they look completely brainless because Kane is as important to England as he was to Spurs, basically. Maybe more so, because they don't have like a son equivalent.

And yeah, so England were incredibly bad.

We see you, England.

Yeah, England's World Cup campaign is dependent on Harry Kane, not getting injured for

buying Munich in the next two months.

We feel you.

We absolutely feel you, England.

In the current Spurs universe, the Roberta Deserby deal is done.

When we spoke on Tuesday, it was in the air, but it wasn't quite confirmed.

James, how are we feeling about it now that it is Sign Sealed, delivered, third-ish, highest-paid manager in the Premier League, all of the stuff around

it. Where are you sitting? I mean, I'm not worried about the financial side, just despite,

you know, the numbers that we've heard, seemingly not being amazingly great. I think we'll come

on to that a bit later. I'm not really worried about the finances because I think you have to take a punt

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