The Athletic FC

Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akimwaleri.

Once again, booze rang, round and filled as Liverpool drew 1-1 with Spurs.

After missing the chance to go fourth, is it Champions League qualification or bust for Arna Slutt?

All right, in with me today.

We've got Simon Hughes, the regular on our Liverpool podcast Walk On and also Adam

Crafton as well.

All right, say, Liverpool versus Tottenham Hotspur, watching them, they looked, I don't know,

from my perspective, a little devoid of everything that made them champions last season.

Did that result basically epitomise what Liverpool's season is so far?

Well, yeah, you know, they conceded another late goal.

I think it's the eighth late goal that they conceded this season.

And I think if he eliminated those goals, Liverpool will be just one point behind Man City and the conversation about them might be a little bit different right now.

But it encourages this sort of sense of fatalism, really, which at the moment is reaching, I would say, a critical stage now.

Because, I mean, you alluded to it there.

There was a bit of a walkout, really, which began even before Tottenham had scored.

The Equalizer, there was a sense of this is coming.

People decided to leave and then obviously when the Equalizer did come and field empty pretty quickly.

So there were problems right across the pitch where they struggled to get up the pitch,

they struggle to keep the ball, they struggled to defend the line defensively.

And Tottenham, I actually feel probably should consider themselves unlucky or annoyed with

themselves for not actually winning the game because Richarlson before he scored,

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