The full NLD autopsy + PSG away
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Host Danny Kelly is joined by The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke, Jay Harris and Dan Kilpatrick to conduct a full autopsy of that crushing defeat at Arsenal. They discuss Frank's game plan, the players' performance as well as this 'projects' long term prospects. They also turn their attention to PSG away on Wednesday and a highly significant run of fixtures to come.
HOST: Danny Kelly
WITH: Jack Pitt-Brooke, Jay Harris, Dan Kilpatrick
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC |
| 0:03.1 | Hello everybody and welcome once again to the view from the lane. |
| 0:27.7 | The award-winning podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Danny Kelly or should I really say welcome to the autopsy to help me pull the scalpel |
| 0:37.4 | through the still twitching body that lies on the slab |
| 0:40.2 | before me from the athletic Dan Kilpatrick, Jack Pitt Brook and Jay Harris. |
| 0:46.4 | Okay, joviality aside, everybody loses football matches. |
| 0:50.5 | It's how you lose that counts. |
| 0:52.2 | But some defeats seem more filled with meaning than others. |
| 0:56.1 | How bad was this, Jack? |
| 0:59.0 | I think it was really bad. |
| 1:00.9 | It was really, really awful. |
| 1:03.1 | And I think we have to separate... |
| 1:05.7 | There's kind of two things going on here. |
| 1:07.2 | One is the performance of the players, |
| 1:08.8 | which was obviously extremely bad. |
| 1:10.8 | But the more I think about it, the more I think what was worse in the performance was the plan, |
| 1:15.3 | the intention to play in this very defensive 5-4-1 with no intention to get on the ball or do |
| 1:21.1 | anything apart from set pieces. And the more I think about it, Danny, the more I think |
| 1:25.6 | the real badness of it was in the plan rather than the performance, which I think about it, Danny, the more I think the real badness of it was in the plan |
| 1:29.2 | rather than the performance, which I think many people will accept that bad performances |
| 1:34.1 | will happen. Okay, I'll throw my bit in. How bad was it? It was terrible, of course. I was scars were reopened from me. I was on the ground in |
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