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

The relegation race looks set to go to the wire after Tottenham's draw against Leeds.

So have West Ham been given a lifeline?

And why do Spurs keep pressing that self-destruct button?

All right, in with us for this one.

We've got Jack Pitt Brook.

We've also got Dan Kilpatrick as well.

So it ended one or at the Tottenham Hot Spur Stadium.

That means Spurs.

And now two points clear of West Ham with two matches still to play.

Here comes Loxstaff. Oh, he's rattled the frame of the goal. I think Kinski got a hand on this one.

That is some stop because Longstaff has hit this as well as he possibly could.

So we have to start with that save from Kinski. I mean, potentially, Jack, could this be the save that keeps Spurs in the Premier League?

It could be.

If Longstaff had scored, then, and Leeds had won, then the gap would have been only one point between Spurs and West Ham.

Spurs would have felt totally broken, I think, by that outcome. It would have

given West Ham a huge boost going into that Newcastle game. On the other hand, football matches and

football seasons are made up of so many little moments. You could argue that the decision not to

give the penalty when Nemetra tackled Madison a few minutes after that. Maybe that was the turning

point, the decisive moment, because obviously if there had been

a penalty and Tottenham had scored, they would now be four points ahead of West Ham and looking

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