The Season Review
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke, James Maw and Charlie Eccleshare look back on Spurs' hugely eventful 2020-21 season.
They reflect on the failings that meant the club was only able to finish 7th in the Premier League. They also discuss the search for a new manager, the future of Harry Kane, and the UEFA Conference League.
Plus they look back on some of their best and worst predictions from the start of the season, and assess the state of the squad...who should stay and who should go?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | So farewell then to a season in which Tottenham Hotspur re-signed Gareth Bale, |
| 0:22.6 | won 6-1 at Old Trafford, went top after 12 games, |
| 0:25.9 | were knocked out of Europe by a team whose manager was in prison, |
| 0:28.9 | dropped 12 points in the last 10 minutes of Premier League matches, |
| 0:32.3 | launched a coup against the fabric of world football before folding 48 hours later, |
| 0:37.1 | sat Jose Marino, replaced him with Ryan Mason, were trolled by a duelux dog. There it is. And had the man who finished top of both Premier League goals and assist charts and still somehow managed to finish seventh. So was this Tottenham's worst season of the modern era, or just the strangest? My name's Jack Pitbrook. You're listening to The View from the Lane podcast today. We are going to look back on the 2020-2020 season and celebrate the fact that Tottenham do not have an official game for another 12 weeks. I'm joined as always by James Moore. Hi James. Hi, I'm an inequity Charlie and I've given away who our special guest is. And by special guest Charlie Eccleshare. So good to have you back. Good to be back, yeah, despite James ruining the moment. But yeah. Ruining the surprise. Yeah. We can do Jack's big intro again if you want. No, fuck that. Yeah, hi guys. It was funny, Jack, listening to that, it does take me back to our preseason pod last year and saying, like, |
| 1:28.7 | could this season be any weirder or wackier than last season? |
| 1:32.3 | I think we said, you know, do really well to do that. |
| 1:34.8 | But your intro there, I think it definitely has surpassed last season for strangeness and drama. |
| 1:41.3 | Yeah, I mean, we got one sacking in each season, |
| 1:44.8 | and obviously last thing I think felt more dramatic |
| 1:47.6 | because obviously it had the COVID stoppage in the middle |
| 1:50.3 | and not having fans felt very surreal and everything, |
| 1:54.6 | whereas this year... |
| 1:55.4 | Dyer in the stands. |
| 1:56.7 | Yeah, whereas this year behind closed doors |
| 1:58.2 | has become so much part of our natural life |
| 2:00.1 | that it doesn't feel quite so on anymore. And in terms of like events, I think this had been |
| 2:05.6 | much more eventful even than last season. But it's over. And James, it ended in quite a good way, |
| 2:11.0 | more or less. Yeah, I thought Spurs actually played quite well. They probably had two sort of |
| 2:15.2 | maybe 15 minute periods of looking like they're all at sea. |
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