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The event is all online, and you can get your ticket for only £7 right now over at link.dite.fm slash masterclass. That's really catchy. So we'll do it one more time. Link.dice.comfm slash masterclass. Imagine if in February 2019, Brendan Rogers had turned down Lester City and stayed at Celtic to try to complete the treble treble, having done that, he was looking for return to the Premier League in the summer or autumn of 2019, and as things started to go wrong from Maricio Pochitino, Daniel Levy finally appointed the man he thought he had tied up seven years before. And with Brendan Rogers in charge for the last two years, or just less than that, might it have been Tottenham celebrating with the FA Cup at Wembley on Saturday?

My name's Jack Pitbrook.

You're listening to View for the Lame podcast.

I'm joined, as always, by James Moore. James, did you feel a bit of jealousy watching Lester dancing around with the FAA Cup on Saturday afternoon? Yeah, yeah, I did, yeah. I was massively salty about that. So Saturday afternoon, I met up with a few of my old colleagues

I hadn't seen for like over a year

and a couple of them on Lester fans

and not just because I wanted to see those two guys unhappy, not just because of that. But yeah, I was kind of like quite sulty about, you know, the idea of Lester winning another trophy when Spurs haven't won anything. And I kind of felt like, yeah, that's going to be quite painful to see. And then obviously the nature of Chelsea losing the game made me completely revised that. I mean, I got home and turned the TV on, I reckon probably about 88 minutes into the game. So it wasn't too long after that that Cheerwell had the goal that's allowed. And that was absolutely hilarious. Just for the record, I turned the Liverpool-West Brom game on it in around about the same time

and saw the Alison goal. So my football watching experience. Incredible last-minute equaliser

denied by VAR. Incredible last-minute winner scored by goalkeeper and competent performance by Spurs.

I mean, what a weekend. Yeah, it was, I have to say, I really, really enjoyed watching the Cup final on Saturday. You know, didn't really have much an emotional investment in terms of who won, but just, I mean, there were much more fans there than they were for the Carrabel final. And it was a proper occasion. And, like, Telemann's goal was so good and i properly like jumped

off the sofa and started screaming when that went in and then at the end it was just really emotional

seeing all the it just felt so real seeing all the all the lesser players welling up with the trophy

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