Rule The Roost - A Tottenham Hotspur Podcast

A few hasty text messages later, it was decided that André Villas-Boas deserved his own dedicated show. After a season and a quarter at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur, the undeniably handsome manager was given his marching orders, leaving the majority of Spurs fans unsure what to make of it. In a roundtable of distinctly down and baffled fans, ESPN and Bleacher Report writer Dan Fitch and voice of...

Back in the hosting chair, Jack Hussey rejoined Raj Bains on this weeks show, making sure the audio equivalent of Ledley King (Bains) and Michael Dawson (Hussey) were back together again. They started by celebrating a good week for the club and three points against Sunderland, before turning their attention to Anji on Thursday and Liverpool on Sunday. With nobody in Dagestan willing to talk to us...

Stepping in to the hosting chair in the absence of Tottenham's Keith Chegwin, Raj and the SpursStatMan himself Jack look back on the Fulham game and make sure to point out that they're 100% not the same person with some form of mental illness. Joined by Sunderland fan Gareth, of Wise Men Say Podcast, we preview the upcoming game at the Stadium Of Light and find out more about the Premier League's...

Kicking off a double-bill of episodes this week as we do our best to combat the Premier League fixture congestion, we try and put to bed the Manchester United result as emphatically as André Villas-Boas did the press agenda against him, which was also discussed. Russ Goldman from Cottage Talk Podcast was our Fulham fan of choice to join us as we collectively conducted a candle lit vigil for the le...

Huddled in a corner together crying and shaking we do our best to contextualise what losing 6-0 away to Manchester City really means, and how it changes things at the club, if at all. We also mention the victory away at Tromsø, confirming that we've comprehensively won our group in the Europa League. Dale O'Donnell from Stretty News is our Manchester United guest this week, and Jack and Raj do the...

Putting the International break behind us and welcoming back club football with open arms, we turned our attention very quickly to the upcoming game away at the Etihad. Before that though, congratulations were in order for France captain Hugo Lloris, and we lent a shoulder to cry on for Sigurðsson, Chiricheș and the injured Christian Eriksen. Robert Pollard of TypicalCity fame was our guest as we...

Yet another International Break, yet another disappointing result leading in to it. Discussing what went wrong, and what could have gone better against Newcastle was first on the agenda as Tottenham's answer to Gervais and Merchant invited on two fellow Spurs fans on to the pod. Ben McAleer of WhoScored.com and Abbi Summers of Fanzone were on board a much more introverted episode as we discussed t...

A first penalty win since 1994 is celebrated as we beat Hull again within a week and dump them out of the League cup. Everton away is discussed and dissected, with Lloris' indestructible skull up for praise. Sheriff and the impact of the 1882 also have a hefty hat tipped toward them. Joined by Taylor Payne from True Faith Podcast, we discussed duck size horses vs horse sized ducks, goat related be...

Discussing the eventual victory against Hull, addressing the atmosphere at White Hart Lane and previewing an unfortunate replay of the same game we've just suffered through, host's Jack and Raj breath a collective sigh of relief as they put Hull behind them. Joined by Si and Ballsy from NSNO.co.uk, we laughed and joked our way through an Everton preview. Deluded red rivals, Steven Pienaar and Robe...

Simultaneously reviewing the Aston Villa win and previewing Sheriff in the Europa League and Hull in both the league and League Cup, we had a lot to get through this week. Alongside Matthew Rudd from Amber Nectar, we were brought up to speed on Hull City in their present guise, and found out why they're not happy with being called Tigers. Praise for Huddlestone and Livermore too, with nods toward...

Keeping up to date with both our players involved in internationals and those training at home, we happily waved goodbye to the distraction from Tottenham and club football for the foreseeable future. Speaking to Sam Tighe from Bleacher Report, we discussed how Aston Villa and Tottenham went from being league rivals to poles apart despite being similar clubs in stature. Benteke, Lambert and tactic...

Doing our best to draw the positives and digest the various negatives from the weekends loss to West-Ham, we drew a line under the game for good. Alongside SpursStatMan writer and blogger Ben Alfrey, we took advantage of yet another international break and did our best to evaluate and contextualise the season so far. Tactics, team selection, substitutions and more, we did our best to answer the va...

Another week, another London derby. After discussing the performance and result against Chelsea we previewed cup final week for West Ham fans with the upcoming fixture at White Hart Lane firmly in mind. Joined by Sean Whetstone, a blogger, podcaster and influential supporter of West Ham, we quizzed him on life under Big Sam, how they expect to fill the Olympic stadium, summer transfer dealings and...

After apologising for missing the Cardiff game and briefly revelling in yet another victory and clean sheet, we got back on our bike and took a lengthy look forward to Chelsea at home. Joined by loyal Chelsea season ticket holder Joe, host's Jack and Raj explored and debated the morals of being owned by such a shady character and the successes that come with it, the mystery of Lukaku and Mata, And...

Back to the usual show format, we look ahead to our next league opponents Norwich with a respected local club journalist and Canaries fan, Michael Bailey. Hosted as always by tehTrunk, and site editor Raj, we discussed the upcoming fixture, being owned by Delia Smith and who is worse out of Sebastian Bassong and Harry Kane. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ruletheroost. Hosted on Acast...

With the transfer window blissfully closed and international football causing an unwelcome break in premier league action, host Jack and editor Raj, alongside SpursStatMan's own 'Head Of Opposition Scouting' Rob Brown, took the opportunity to have a closer look at our own club. A frighteningly busy window has caused not only concerns over our ability to adapt and gel going forwards, but also the s...

With the first North London Derby of the season fast approaching, host Jack and editor Raj strayed in to enemy territory and invited on two prominent Arsenal fans to discuss the game ahead. Whilst also taking an extremely brief look back at wins against Dinamo Tblisi and Swansea, the focus was heavily on the Emirates. Unlike most encounters between fans of both sides, expect intelligent debate, pr...

Ahead of Tottenham's first home game of the season against Swansea, host Jack and editor Raj spoke to Chris of the popular SwansBlog about the forthcoming fixture. Discussing topics ranging from tactics to transfers, and set-pieces to Sigurdsson, we gave this intriguing fixture the attention it deserved. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ruletheroost. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Episode four of Rule the Roost sees editor Raj leaving the hard work to tehTrunk whilst he suns himself in Morocco….no bitterness. But onward we soldier, with a new season ahead, we speak to Chris Waters, media spokesman for the Crystal Palace Supporters' Trust about the Holmesdale fanatics, the ravages of modern football, beating us 3-0 and John Bostock's penchant for a nice car. Come on you Spur...

Episode three of the podcast and we've done away with discussing individual football clubs, and have instead had an in-depth scout in to the history of Tottenham Hotspur's various forays in to the Brazilian game and market. Alongside this weeks guest and self-confessed Brazilophile Jack Lang of SnapKakaPop, Guardian, ESPN, When Saturday Comes (to name but a few) fame, show host Jack and site edito...

Episode two of the podcast and we're already branching out slightly. Rather than scouting the opposition, we're asking questions about the inner-workings of our own club to Roberto Kussabi the former Head Of Social Media at Tottenham. In discussion as always with host Jack and site editor Raj, we talked about the players as people, smelling AVB, working for the club you love and much more besides....

The pilot episode see’s podcast host Jack joined by site editor Raj, opposite Real Madrid fans and bloggers Bassam and Kaushik, from RealMadridFootballBlog.com. Discussions range from Gareth Bale to Luka Modric, and Jose Mourinho to the two clubs mysterious commercial partnership, with just about everything else in between. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ruletheroost. Hosted on Acast...