Through The Ages Podcast

Spurs Through The Ages - A Brief History of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club

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Spurs Through the Ages is a ten-episode narrative podcast series telling the complete history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club — from schoolboys on Tottenham Marshes in 1882 to the Europa League triumph in Bilbao in 2025. Each episode is thirty minutes, built around six segments: an introduction, historical context, the main narrative, a Player of the Era portrait, a Fan's Eye View, and an outro. The series is structured to give each of Spurs' great eras its own episode. The golden age of the 1960s — the Double, the Cup Winners' Cup, the Greaves years — receives special attention, as does th...

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Episode 3 : Push and Run Interwar - Hardship, a second World War, and the philosophy that made Spurs Spurs (1922 – 1952) 24.06.2026 20:24

The two decades between the wars are a time of fluctuation — three relegations and three promotions, the yo-yo rhythm of a club that could not quite find stability in the top division. The 1928 relegation under Peter McWilliam is a shock. The 1930s bring some stability in the Second Division, and a crowd record that still stands: 75,038 for an FA Cup tie against Sunderland in 1938. Then comes the...

Episode 2 : The Football League and the First War - Tottenham join the big league, find their home, and lose a generation (1901 – 1921) 05.06.2026 27:19

The 1901 FA Cup win changed everything. Suddenly Tottenham Hotspur were not just a Southern League club with ideas above their station — they were a name that commanded attention. In 1908, riding the credibility of their Cup triumph and years of Southern League success, Spurs were elected to the Second Division of the Football League. They won promotion in their first season, and finished runners-...

Episode 1 : The Boys from the Marshes - How a cricket club became a football club and a legend was named ( 1882–1901) 12.05.2026 30:18

Welcome to Spurs Through the Ages — the complete history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, told from the very beginning. Over the next ten episodes, we are going to travel through one hundred and forty-three years of football history. From a group of teenage boys on Tottenham Marshes in 1882, through the darkness and the glory and the near-misses and the heartbreaks, all the way to a warm Wednes...