What relegation would do to Spurs' finances + Villa preview!
The View From The Lane: The Athletic FC's Spurs show
The Athletic
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Host Kate Mason is joined by The Athletic's Jay Harris, James Maw, Jack Pitt-Brooke AND football finance writer Chris Weatherspoon to discuss Spurs' ever worsening finances, ENIC's investment(s) in the club, what relegation might mean, player wages and much much more!
Plus! We also discuss a monumentally important game vs Aston Villa on Sunday evening.
HOST: Kate Mason
WITH: Jay Harris, James Maw, Jack Pitt-Brooke, Chris Weatherspoon
PRODUCER: Tom Fuller
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:07.3 | Welcome to the multi-award winning Spurs podcast from The Athletic. |
| 0:28.0 | It is The View from the Lane. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm Kate Mason. |
| 0:31.4 | Joining me today are Jay Harris, James Moore and Jack Pitt Brook. |
| 0:35.8 | And by popular demand, we have with us today, the Athletics |
| 0:40.0 | Football Finance writer. It's Chris Wetherspoon. Chris, good to have you. Hello, that was quite the |
| 0:46.1 | intro. I'm going to come on more often if people are this nice. It's true though, Chris. People are |
| 0:51.2 | gripped by your latest piece on Spurs finances yesterday. |
| 0:55.0 | Honestly, we've had a bunch of tweets saying, get this guy on. |
| 0:59.3 | Please, can you explain what's going on? |
| 1:01.2 | So that's basically my first question. |
| 1:04.4 | Please can you explain what is going on? |
| 1:07.0 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:07.7 | How long are we doing? |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, no, I mean, that's nice to hear the people. |
| 1:14.0 | Well, maybe they didn't enjoy it. |
| 1:15.4 | Maybe it just intrigued them. |
| 1:17.5 | But yeah, I think the interesting, concerning thing about Spurs is, you know, |
| 1:23.0 | they were kind of historically held up as like the best round club in the league. Maybe you can argue |
| 1:30.1 | Liverpool, I'm not sure, but we kind of seen that tail off, as we have seen on the pitch. And I think, |
| 1:37.6 | to be fair, it also speaks to the fact that spurs like at least five of the clubs in England |
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