Hometown Glory: Spurs x Culture

Is everybody okay?? Lauren, Sam and Rosa try to put themselves back together after that cataclysmic, catastrophic, but somehow also completely heroic defeat. We talk through that perfect storm of red cards, horrific injuries and VAR nonsense against almost the worst possible opponent, and how we somehow came out of it loving Ange and our club even more? We also look back at a maddening draw for Sp...

This week, Rosa is joined by Ash, Billie, Sam and Tom as we look down on literally everyone else, because guess who is still top of the table? Your mighty Lilywhites! We discuss the Palace game—including which of the HG gang did the worst job of going incognito among the home fans—and give a heartfelt, joyous welcome back to our beloved Rodrigo Bentancur. We ponder our feelings about the upcoming...

We move! Billie, Charlie, Rosa and Tom explore the good, the bad and the subs of a straightforward(ish) home win over Fulham that saw your mighty Lilywhites return to the Premier League summit. Rosa’s Cuti Apology Tour continues apace, Tom ensures The Main Man at the Roast gets his flowers, Charlie pens his four hundredth Sonny love letter, Billie compares Micky to Aaron Lennon in the best possibl...

A chance to go top of the league? Never in doubt! Billie, Rosa, Sam and Tom exhale after that unexpectedly-but-also-not tough game at Luton. We hand out flowers to our central defence heroes and our tireless Swede, and let Bissouma know we’re not angry, just disappointed. There's also plenty of time for us to wax lyrical about Evelina’s perfect free kick and Martha Thomas’s intelligent running as...

We regret to inform you that football is cancelled. There is simply no way it can recover from such a terrible miscarriage of justice as that inflicted upon poor, plucky Liverpool at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Oh wait, we don’t care! Billie, Sam, Tom and Rosa have the audacity to revel in our first win in that cursed fixture since forever. Elsewhere, Sam reports back from Stamford Bridge where...

The WSL is back! Rosa and HG cousins Caroline and Lauren are here with the essential info you need ahead of Spurs Women’s opening game*: our new coach, transfer ins and outs, the state of the squad, the players we’re most excited about, potential lineups, style of play—if there’s anything we forgot to cover it’s because we finally just ran out of time. Yes, our saviour (and new club captain) Betha...

What were we all so stressed about, eh? Turns out Ange even makes trips to the Emirates (relatively, kinda?) painless. Friend of the show Kate Storsved (an elite coys tweeter) joins Charlie, Sam and Tom all the way from Illinois as we offer up winners and losers from a wild NLD. There are flowers for almost everyone in lilywhite, an iconic dismissal of David Raya from Kate and a lovely big collect...

Two HGs in a week? The Ange Effect. Billie and Charlie and joined by HG cousin Davina who gives her verdict on the fan forum. Stage-managed PR event or something to force us to reassess certain Levy takes? Did the Spurs Women contingent get a fair look? What needs to happen next? Davina has the inside line. We then preview a gargantuan NLD, share our more hysterical memories of this tortuous fixtu...

This week, the wins are late but the vibes are IMPECCABLE. Rosa and Sam are joined by cousin Lauren to drink in that wild, joyous, and fully deserved victory over Sheffield United: Kulu coolness, South Stand scenes, and of course the Richy Redemption Arc. We assess the final moves in the WSL transfer window and toast the new captain of Spurs Women (guess), Sam and Lauren try to convince Rosa to wa...

Is this the most chaotic episode of HG yet? Maybe! Blame the international break, frankly. Charlie, Billie, Rosa and (eventually) Sam check in to offer their winners and losers from a bizarre fortnight—which include Billie’s intimate dissection of Emerson Royal’s most Emerson Royal moment yet and a big, emotional back-and-forth on one of the hottest-button topics gripping coysland right now: Is Ha...

Carabao? Sorry, we don’t know her. The Ange revolution gets back on track with a glorious 5-2 demolition of Burnley in the late summer sun. Billie, Rosa and Tom bask in the Angeball glow and fume at the international break robbing us of our next fix. We grade the transfer window/Rosa gets in her feelings one last time about Dav, Bethany England returns to Spurs Women, Tom was EXTREMELY cultured, a...

No one said change comes easily, right? Rosa is joined by HG cousins Sam and (making her official debut) Lauren as the Ange revolution encounters its first setback in the form of— surprise!—an embarrassing cup exit. We preview Burnley, look askance at the dying embers of the transfer window, discuss the incomings at Spurs Women (and beg the club once more to just TALK TO US), and dish out some lov...

Good vibes only! We carry the euphoria from White Hart Lane and an impressive win over Man Utd into an episode where we welcome two new members into the HG fam—Davina Pindoria and Sam Cornish. There’s time to get Davina and Sam’s coys origin stories before our flashy signings (plus Ash and Charlie) exchange winners and losers from that raucous Saturday night in N17. We predict Bournemouth away, wo...

The king is dead, long live a bunch of new kings! Billie, Charlie, Rosa and Tom bid final farewells to Harry, give heartfelt thanks to RB Leipzig for saving us from a thousand memes and offer our appreciation to you, our listeners, on helping us build our Ultimate Kane Leaving playlist (available here and here!). There’s no time to dwell, though, cos there’s an actual game of football to chat abou...

The season preview! A full HG crew reunite to tackle only the toughest questions: who do we want to beat more, Arsenal or Chelsea? Which N17 pub are we most excited to get back to? What pointless, petty hill are we going to die on this season? Plus some (kinda) serious questions about Harry, signings, inverted full-backs and league positions, etc! There’s also time for an update from the frontline...

Season three, let’s go! The Kane saga, of course, dominates, and Billie, Charlie and Rosa consider all sides. Is giving up a final year of Harry worth it if we won’t have to watch him tear up the Premier League in non-lilywhite? Should we stop overthinking it and just cling onto our greatest-ever player until the very last and see what happens? Why are Bayern so embarrassing? And will Billie overc...

Men’s football has a problem. After Benjamin Mendy was found not guilty of rape and attempted rape, there followed an extraordinary outpouring of support on social media from fellow professionals. In spite of the horrific statistics about sexual assault and vanishingly low conviction rates, footballers chose to use their voices for this, and it was a dark day to be a female football fan. On this e...

It's a new dawn, mates! The HG team welcomes Big Ange aboard the Tottenham rollercoaster in this bumper episode. Are we right to be so excited? What should our expectations be? Are there any red flags here? Which players stand to benefit the most? Are there any returning loanees worth a second/third/fiftieth go? What should the club do about the Harry Kane situation this summer? All these question...

Is it small time to celebrate That Lot absolutely bottling* the title? Doesn’t matter, we do it anyway, because there really isn’t that much else to enjoy this week. Billie indulges Rosa in more Ryan Mason chat than the loss at Villa probably deserves, before we assess the next candidates for the managerial merry go round. There’s some hot Sporting Director chat, a look ahead at next weekend’s dou...

We're back! Well, maybe not back-back, but Ryan Mason's functional lilywhites are still a very welcome sight. The full Hometown Glory team convene to assess the first few games of The (Second) Mason Era, applaud his tactical jiggery-pokery and big calls, and ask the big question: Should we be considering Ryan for the permanent job? Rosa makes her heartfelt case for Team Mason... but is anyone else...

Billie, Charlie and Rosa react to news of Mauricio Pochettino's journey to the dark side. What stage of grief are we all at? Just how mad are we with Poch? Will it prompt Rosa to quit football forever? Speaking of betrayals, Billie goes through your suggestions for ultimate coys betrayals in a Rolling In the Tweets special that sounds (very) bleak but will raise your spirits (we promise). Oh, and...

We're back! Ash, Charlie, Rosa and Tom get deep in their coys feelings to survey the wreckage of a Bournemouth defeat that captures the toxic nature of Spurs right now. We cover the appalling treatment of Davinson Sánchez, ask how we got to a place where we can't even control possession at home to Bournemouth and wonder why the board seem to have simply given up on this season. The (leisurely) man...

We’re joined by Caroline and Rachel of the brilliant N17 Women podcast to highlight Spurs Women. We try to avoid getting granular about another North London derby defeat and instead take a long look at the state of things post the Rehanne Skinner sacking. Are we going to survive? How did we end up here? What do we want the future to look like? We vent our frustrations but also take time to celebra...

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? W...

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 re...