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The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke, James Maw and Alex Kay-Jelski pick the bones out of a turbulent week for Spurs. What does the future hold under Jose Mourinho? Plus, news of a potential January signing.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Hello, hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our brand new Tottenham Hotspur |
| 0:30.0 | podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:32.3 | My name is Jack Pitbrook. |
| 0:34.1 | I cover Spurs for the Athletic, and we will be taking you behind the scenes every week to tell |
| 0:38.7 | you what is going on at White Hart Lane. |
| 0:41.6 | And what a week it has been? |
| 0:47.4 | I think probably been one of the most dramatic, momentous and surprising weeks in the history |
| 0:52.4 | of the club. |
| 0:53.4 | Here to discuss it with me today are two of my spur-supporting athletic colleagues. |
| 0:58.1 | Staff editor-editor James Moore. |
| 0:59.7 | Hello. |
| 1:00.5 | And editor-in-chief Alex K. Jelski. |
| 1:02.5 | Hello there. |
| 1:03.9 | I think we should probably just start from the start, |
| 1:07.4 | going back chronologically to Tuesday afternoon |
| 1:10.6 | when Tottenham released their |
| 1:12.0 | statement announcing that Maricio Pochino was sacked as manager after five and a half years |
| 1:17.4 | at the club and after about a week or so of crisis talks with Daniel Levy. Let's start with |
| 1:23.1 | the emotional side first. James Alex, you're both Spurs fans. How did you feel? Well, I was actually |
| 1:27.7 | trying to eat my chicken Kiev at the time and it came as a bit of a shock. I felt really sad |
| 1:33.7 | watching the whole of 2019 unravel. I think the Champions League masked some much bigger problems. |
| 1:40.1 | The team obviously struggled for a long time and I think I felt relieved in some ways. You knew it was |
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