Hometown Gory

Another week, another new manager! Spurs Women shock us all by acting reasonably swiftly to appoint Robert Vilahamn’s replacement. Rosa and Lauren discuss new boss Martin Ho: expectations, hopes, dreams, and most importantly, considerable Man Utd headloss.

Bring your knowledge. Bring your vibes. Bring your calculators. It’s the return of the HOMETOWN GLORY QUIZ!Round 1 - Younes KaboulseyeRound 2 - Johnnie SacksonRound 3 - Maths TelRound 4 - Glory Allen

On today’s episode: where in the world is Thomas Frank? Rosa quizzes Conor and Lauren on their excitement levels (reasonably high!), their views on Frankball (tactically flexible!), which players they’re most excited to see (Archie! Brennan! A real 6????) and, naturally, their predictions for how long he’ll last in the job (hopefully more than the standard 18-24 months!). We also review the latest, strangest piece of Spurs content starring Daniel Levy and Vinai Venkatesham (did you guys know failure isn’t an option???), and Conor and Rosa convince Lauren to pause Love Island and give A Real Pain a go.

Well, they did it. They sacked our most successful manager in 40 years. Two weeks exactly after Ange’s iconic season three is better than season two mic drop, Daniel Levy killed off the main character. Ash, Lauren and Rosa ponder what this all means for them and for Tottenham Hotspur. Again. At least with Robert Vilahamn also getting his P45 they’re consistent?

Adam (Bilbao), Lauren (Tottenham Hotspur Stadium) and Rosa (behind the sofa) relive the glorious, unforgettable, terrifying night that saw us crowned EUROPA LEAGUE CHAMPIONS. Sonny. Micky. Cuti. BRENNAN JOHNSON. The Ange mic drop. The agony. The tears. The incredible feeling of being changed forever. What a club. What a ridiculous, beautiful, magical club. 

Here we are then. The proverbial fork in the road. One path leads to glory. One to utter devastation. And either way, our lives will never be the same.

Crystal Palace don’t matter. Aston Villa don’t matter. Nothing matters except WE’RE GOING TO BILBAO. Even a plastic pitch and some weirdly bantery Norwegians couldn’t stop us getting there. Conor, Lauren and Rosa discuss moments and men of the match (the real him??), manifesting, and that magical feeling of making it to A EUROPEAN CUP FINAL. Elsewhere, we might (should) be saying goodbye to Robert but hopefully not Olga, the WSL gets a meh rebrand, and Andor and Andre 3000 are great. BILBAO!!!!

This week in Tottenham; two largely pointless games for Ash, Lauren and Rosa to look back on, a somewhat concerning Spurs Women fan event, and the return of Injury Crisis FC at exactly the worst possible moment. Maddison is dead and maybe so is our chance at Europa glory? Now would be a good time for our ginger Swede to remember who he is. Also: congrats Harry. You finally got your trophy. We hope it makes you happy. (No seriously, we do 💙)