Hometown Glory: Spurs x Culture

What is up with Tottenham Hotspur? It's a timeless, impossible question, but one that Billie, Charlie and Rosa take on in a special episode. We break things down into four “buckets”: Antonio Conte, his players, our club's board and us, the fans. What blame can be apportioned out to each? Can we defend Antonio's iconic rant? Is criticism of “club culture” fair? Why, essentially, are we like this? We try to look at things from all sides—and wonder what comes next.

We all care about top four again, we guess? Ash, Billie, Rosa and Tom put the Milan game in the bin and our dreams of glory away for another year. But we’re determined to enjoy the rest of the season as much as we can, and thank the gods for giving us a newly-galvanised Richarlison and Pedro Porro not a moment too soon. Elsewhere, we discuss the sad but inevitable sacking of Rehanne Skinner. Is relegation avoidable or have Spurs Women totally screwed this up? (That’s not a rhetorical question, honest.) Finally, Billie celebrates the Oscars doing the right thing. Joy and redemption is possible! Your move, Tottenham. 

Rosa, Billie and Tom attempt to unpack two miserable defeats in the Cup and league. We then rouse ourselves (sort of) for previews of the Milan and Forest games, and (it’s that time again!) look ahead to a new manager—talking Poch and getting your alternative boss ideas in Rolling In the Tweets. Plus there’s a Spurs Women update and some uplifting (we promise!) TV and movie chat (Billie watched Cocaine Bear!).

Like London buses… we bag a second, confident derby win. Billie, Rosa and Tom discuss unlikely goal scorers, Richarlison and Kane, Ben Davies reaching 300 games and marvel at how bad Chelsea are. The team also preview Sheffield United in the FA Cup, and reflect on the women’s Cup loss. And there’s culture!

Spurs might not be particularly good, but at least we’re not West Ham bad. Billie, Charlie, Rosa and (especially) Tom celebrate a nicely straightforward 2-0 home win full of heartwarming moments for Hometown Glory favourites—and give Cristian Stellini his tactical flowers. Attentions then turn to another big London derby at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as we wonder if we’ll ever have a better chance to see off Chelsea (and if so, why are we all quite so nervous about this game?). There’s also a Cup game for Spurs Women to preview, plus an award-winning rant about the Eveliina Summanen-Ella Toone “fuckery”. Oh, and culture picks! Lovely culture picks! If you fancy skipping to certain bits:00:00 — West Ham, Emerson, Gentle Ben and Richy 34:05 — Chelsea preview 48:30 — Spurs Women57:20 — Culture! Follow us on Twitter: @_HometownGloryThe team on Twitter: Ash, Billie, Charlie, Rosa and Tom... And we're on Instagram: @_hometownglorygram

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! And YIKES. Billie and Rosa work through their feelings about our football club’s latest disaster(s) and try to find some reasons to be, if not cheerful, at least not totally depressed. Sure, we’re catastrophic on the pitch and we’re haemorrhaging first team players, but could this be The Chance for Sarr and Skipp? We shower affection on Beth England and Ash Neville but also fret about the future for Spurs Women. Is it time to move on from Rehanne Skinner? Finally, Billie keeps us up to date on the Oscars race and Rosa read another quite sad book. As ever, we love you, Tottenham Hotspur, even if you very clearly do not love us back.