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Welcome to the multi-award-winning Spurs podcast from The Athletic.

It is time for The View from the Lane.

I'm Kate Mason.

Joining me today are James Moore, Jack Pittbrook and Jay Harris, all of whom have been hard at work bringing you brilliant

written pieces such as the one that Jack has been writing about Christian Romero's injury,

which of course happened in the Sunderland game over the weekend. And of course, the show of

emotion that he exhibited afterwards. Many people speculating what exactly that referred to.

We now know that he looks as though he is out for the rest of the season,

but could potentially feature in the World Cup.

Tell us, Jack, how significant you think this is for Tottenham's bid for survival?

I think it's pretty significant.

I think it's pretty bad. I think it's pretty bad.

I think that for all of Romero's inconsistencies and issues this season and the mistakes

he's made on the pitch and the red cards and suspensions and the not especially

helpful comments that he's made, I think that they are still a better team with him than without.

And I also think that to kind of galvanise the reaction that they need to get out of this,

if they are to get out of this, they need him there.

Like they need his mentality.

They need his ability to set the tone

for the rest of the group.

I took a lot, I mean, you could, I think sometimes you can read too much into players and managers

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