The Preview: Spurs vs Arsenal
The Athletic FC Podcast
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Arsenal head up the road to Tottenham for a massive North London Derby.
Can Igor Tudor start his Spurs career with a big win to help lift the mood, or will Arsenal get back on title track?
Host: Matt Davies-Adams
Guests: Art de Roché & Dan Kilpatrick
Executive Producers: Adey Moorhead & Guy Clarke
Producers: Jay Beale & John Rogers
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC |
| 0:03.1 | Welcome to the preview from the Athletic FC. |
| 0:07.9 | It's the show where we get you set for the weekend's Premier League action. |
| 0:11.7 | This week, we're looking ahead to the North London Derby. |
| 0:18.3 | And on board today we have Dan Kilpatrick. Hi, Dan. mate. And Art the Roshay is back with us to you. |
| 0:25.0 | Okay, Art? Yeah, I'm coping after Wednesday night. I was going to say, as I said, are you okay? I thought that was, that was just like a general hello. And I know, you're the Aster |
| 0:35.1 | report. Probably not. But we'll get into that. Yeah. All good apart from that. That's report probably not but but we'll get into that yeah |
| 0:37.7 | all good apart from that that's good that's good uh later on we'll get into some of the other big |
| 0:42.0 | matchups of match week 27 but first let's get to our feature presentation so sunday's north london |
| 0:50.2 | derby will be interim boss eagerudor's first game in charge. |
| 0:54.5 | Monday's FC's got more on WISP, as chose him, if you'd like to listen to that after this. Dan, you'd had your fill of Frank, hadn't you? What's your take on Tudor? Yes, I had had my fill of Frank. I think that's fair to say. It's obviously early days. He hasn't taken charge of a game yet. but I can understand the logic in Tudor's appointment. |
| 1:11.9 | He's this coach who specialises seemingly in kind of coming into clubs |
| 1:16.9 | who are having a difficult time when squads are sort of on their knees and and lifting them and |
| 1:21.4 | getting instant results you know he's done that uve he did that elsewhere in Italy so he is |
| 1:27.3 | a sensible appointment in that respect |
| 1:30.1 | and he suppose just need someone to get them through to the end of the season to get enough |
| 1:34.7 | points to get them away from the relegation zone which is a situation I don't think anyone thought |
| 1:39.2 | they were going to be in and he has a CV that suggests he's well equipped to do that. |
| 1:44.9 | My big concern is that he has never set foot in English football before, |
| 1:48.6 | without going full proper football man. |
| 1:51.1 | You know, he's not played here, he's not managed here before. |
| 1:53.6 | And as we all know, the Premier League is a kind of different beast to most other leagues in Europe. |
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