What are Spurs fighting for in 2026?
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Host Danny Kelly is joined by The Athletic's Jack Pitt-Brooke and Dan Kilpatrick to reflect on another defeat this season and ultimately ask the question: What are Spurs fighting for now they're out of both domestic cup competitions? Is it league placement? Or something more existential - sorting out the apparent division between players and fans?
They also discuss the pros and cons of keeping Thomas Frank in charge, his next run of fixtures and what a defeat to West Ham might do to the mood around the team.
HOST: Danny Kelly
WITH: Jack Pitt-Brooke, Dan Kilpatrick
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC. |
| 0:07.5 | Yeah, everybody and welcome once again to The View from the Lane, the Athletics Tottenham-Motspur podcast. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Danny Kelly and joining me for today's fun-packed episode are Jack Pittbrook and Dan Kilpatrick from The Athletic. |
| 0:37.3 | Look, another home defeat, another departure from a cup, more anger from the players. |
| 0:43.1 | We will get onto the reasons to be cheerful. |
| 0:45.6 | We'll try and identify reasons to be cheerful a little later in the pod. |
| 0:49.6 | And there's no point I don't think at this stage. |
| 0:51.7 | It'll come up, of course, in the conversation in just |
| 0:54.5 | going through laboriously the events of the match, because we've seen this movie so many times. |
| 0:59.9 | So what I want to do is ask a bigger question. It is the second week of January. There's still |
| 1:04.7 | a whole chunk of the football season to go. But spurs are out of the cups, mid-table at best, and unlikely to win the Champions |
| 1:13.1 | League. I mean, I really, I hope I'm forced to swallow those words in the summer. But let me ask |
| 1:19.2 | you both a question. I suppose, Jack, you and I have postulated on this recently as already. |
| 1:25.9 | What is the rest of the season for for Spurs? What are they |
| 1:29.5 | supposed to be doing? What they can't do is sit there without purpose, without aim. They |
| 1:36.1 | have to, they almost have to reset now that the trophies are gone. I think that the most |
| 1:41.8 | important thing they've got really is the young players at the moment. |
| 1:46.3 | I think that's the thing that really, if I was to reach for anything as a cause for optimism |
| 1:52.1 | or even a cause for purpose, it would be the fact that they have a little, |
| 1:57.2 | they have a generation of players who are, I guess you've got Berg, Val Gray, Tell, |
| 2:04.0 | Odebert and Siemens, all of whom are aged between 19 and 22. All of whom I think have had some |
| 2:10.9 | good, have been amongst the better players this season. They've all had some good moments. |
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