Hello and welcome to The View from the Lane, our Tottenham Potspur podcast from The Athletic.

My name is Jack Pitbrook and I'm joined as ever today by Charlie Lesniak Eccleshare and James Slabber Moore.

This is, I hope, our penultimate podcast before football returns on Friday the 19th of June.

Charlie, just how excited are you?

Very excited. I was trying to think of a sort of slabber Lesniak scale,

but I couldn't really come up with one. But yeah, I'm really excited. I mean, I can't believe

it's like coming up to three months since we lasted a game. It almost is exactly three months,

I think, since that Spurs Leipzig game. So, yeah, I'm very excited, and it does feel like we're ready. It's been a long, long wait. Yeah, I'm at, like, sort of Paul McVeigh levels of excitement now. So I've just plucked that, I've no where I've no idea what his ratio is like

I think he might have scored a Premier League goal

so I mean it could be quite good

but yeah sorry to answer your question

yes I'm ready and excited and waiting

How do we feel the first

tranche of fixture announcements works for spurs

the big Friday night glamour

kickoff against manchester united yeah

that's all that's the one we were expecting um it had that feel it's it's the best game isn't it

really well there's ever is there everton liverpool that's the first weekend as well isn't it but um

yeah it always had the feeling of quite a glamour tie. So, yeah, it should be fun.

I mean, it's weird because, you know, you think Friday night under the lights,

but obviously it's under the lights of an empty stadium is not quite the same thing.

But it's a really good one to look forward to probably from our point of view as reporters, but maybe James, for, it's a bit of an anxiety-inducing one, given how much is at stake, maybe you'd rather a kind of villa at home. Yeah, I mean, I think it would be quite good to get maybe a sort, yeah, like you say, a home game, again, not that that necessarily makes much difference now, home or away, but against a sort of mid-table team who aren't really going to have much to play for or who are going to kind of be feeling their way into it perhaps a little bit more. Can I just pick you up on something there, James? On that kind of mid-table team's being the best to play at this time of the season, I once looked into this and it's more the case that teams down the bottom of the

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