Hometown Glory: Spurs x Culture

End of season awards, but unironically: it’s a Spurs Women celebration! Join us as we pay tribute to the team that actually showed up week after week this season, and saved our sanity in the process. All your faves are here: the goals, the games, the players, the intriguing Martin Ho fashion choices. Plus! Our non-exhaustive wish list for next season. Hurry back, ladies, we miss you already. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s your Hometown Glory end of season awards! Kind of. Because apart from us, the fans, for surviving this diabolical, disgusting, never to be mentioned in polite society again season from hell, who or what could possibly deserve a prize? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is it possible to literally die of relief? It went down to the wire, but Tottenham Hotspur are - somehow - still a premier league club. God bless Kevin Danso, Toni Kinsky, and the fans of this beautiful, absurd football club, who never gave up 💙, and may Satan find a place in hell for the celebration police and for whichever official “accidentally” had some trouble with their headset. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here we are then. Potentially our last podcast in the premier league. One more game. One more point. Help us to believe.Spurs Women did what they needed to do, and more, with a final day victory at Brighton including a Toko Koga golazo that reminded us of how beautiful football - and even Tottenham - can be.See you on the other side. Lord have mercy on us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The JUSTICE FOR MATHYS agenda gets a boost, then takes a hit. Billie and Lauren do their very best to talk Rosa off a ledge, and almost succeed. Madders is back and has already done more for the club in 24 hours than nearly everyone else combined. But WHAT will it take to get a win at this cursed stadium??? We celebrate Spurs Women’s end of the season awards, while looking askance at their increasingly surreal comms strategy. One day without chaos. Will never happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Was the hero we needed…everyone? Ash, Lauren and Rosa discuss not just another win, but an actually impressive performance from a team playing actual football. (And thank you for your service, Unai.) We also bid a sad and unwanted farewell to our captain, leader, legend Bethany England. Martin, your plans had better work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We did it! We won a game of league football in 2026! But at what cost? Three points better off but two (more) players down as the psychological torture that is the 2025/26 season continues. The women stopped the rot at the stadium as our faith in Martin is restored (pending information about Beth England’s future). Plus! Billie and Lauren saw the Michael Jackson movie and they, like everyone else, have THOUGHTS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Signs of life, or a reanimated corpse? Lauren and Rosa try to process the trauma of having that longed-for win (and the joy of THAT Xavi goal) snatched from them at, not coincidentally, the death. Walk with us as we descend ever deeper into the bowels of hell. If a miracle is coming to save us, please let it be soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So…that’s probably that, then? Bye and thanks for nothing, Tottenham Hotspur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s official: Roberto De Zerbi is the new Tottenham manager, and we’ll just have to make the best of it. Alas, we also need that energy for Spurs Women after their FA Cup exit at Chelsea. We’ll beat them one day. Probably. Surely?? At least Lauren and Rosa can celebrate watching the same show at the same time now that The Pitt is finally - FINALLY - on British telly. We take the wins wherever we can find them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More managers than home league wins. It’s the end of the Tudor era - but is it the beginning of a new reign of terror? Ash, Lauren and Rosa get into it about Roberto De Zerbi - all of it. Elsewhere, another miserable away NLD for the women and a bad moment for Martin Ho. At least Ash and Lauren might have Jamaica to cheer on in the World Cup? 🙏 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The week that Tottenham fans showed up…but no one else did. The HG crew rank their levels of existential despair after that terrible performance, and wonder where we go from here. Are they really going to hire someone called ADOLF - or someone even worse? Spurs Women offer a glimmer of hope after their latest Bunny Shaw ordeal with the genuine thrill of a new Olivia Holdt contract. Plus! Find out where we all stand on the biggest issue of the day: Jorginho vs Chappell Roan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Monday morning without a side of existential dread! What a concept. Tottenham showed some fight - at long last - to earn a point at Anfield. A draw has never felt more like a win. Meanwhile, the stadium curse has fully infected the women’s team as they fell to Everton, in a game we’ve all seen approx 1678 times before. Plus! Timmy C has the most Marty Supreme, and therefore the most COYS, Oscars night ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five goals conceded. Two concussed players. One generationally catastrophic goalkeeping performance. Just another regular week of Tottenham Hotspur. THANK GOD the women are back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Weeks go by. Seasons change. And yet, Tottenham cannot win a game of league football. Lauren and Rosa fight both PGMOL and the yawning abyss, and wonder if it’s time to call it: yes, Tottenham are terrible, but also…is men’s football just over? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week: death and glory. Spurs men plummet to the depths of the abyss while the women fight to the end for victory in the cup. We have an emotional status check in, make battle plans to take on PGMOL, discuss coping mechanisms, and simply cannot choose between all the magnificent performances from Monday night at the Copperjax stadium. But Martin said they didn’t practise penalties????? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Johan and Vinai finally found the password to Fabio Paratici’s account, so welcome, Igor Tudor! And farewell Johnny Heitinga, we hardly knew you. History puns, short-lived jobs, little (giant) fires everywhere…a lot to get through for Billie, Lauren and Rosa this week. There’s also the small matter of Spurs Women’s era-heralding 7-3 (that’s SEVEN) defeat of Aston Villa: which of the 6 (SIX) different goalscorers did it best? And are microdramas the next big thing (sorry)? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is your space for minimal chaos and maximum competence: our monthly Spurs Women deep dive. Have the new signings settled? How will we cope without Clare & Toko in March? Which golazo against West Ham was our favourite? All that, and a Bad Bunny Super Bowl review. Excellence abounds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cuti Romero: hero, villain, both, or neither? Relegation: this season, next season, or the one after? It’s the end of everything and the beginning of nothing: Lauren, Rosa and Tom unpack another frankly insane week in the life of Tottenham Hotspur. Somehow Actual Madonna Ciccone showing up to watch both Spurs Women academy AND Spurs Women at the stadium feels totally normal. (Please buy the club!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Unbelievable, but true and disgraceful”One weekend, two games, three golazos. Xavi has finally arrived. So has Matilda Vinberg? Things on the pitch are looking up! Shame about the most incompetent, inexplicable, embarrassing transfer window yet. We have opinions. And so does our captain, Comrade Cuti Romero. This is the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two games, one point, an utter debacle of a weekend. Lauren and Rosa debate strategies for getting through the rest of the season in the absence of a managerial sacking, show Xavi and his grandma some love, and reset their expectations for Spurs Women. (But miss us with any ‘Dr Tottenham’ labels for Martin Ho’s team.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No, he hasn’t been sacked yet. Billie, Lauren and Rosa hit rock bottom (they hope). Breaking points, personal lows, Solanke vs Tel, potential Dortmund attendance levels…truly, the poisoned chalice that is Tottenham Hotspur runneth over. Meanwhile, Spurs Women show off three more debutants and another dazzling display from Signe Gaupset. Plus! Industry returns and everyone pretends they understand shorting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ash, Lauren and Rosa discuss the diverging fortunes of Spurs men and women. On the one hand: the season is over. Injuries are piling up. No discernible transfer strategy in sight. On the other: SIGNE GAUPSET Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New year, same old Spurs - at least as far as the men are concerned. For the women, it’s a bright new day with five - that’s FIVE - signings made this window. The men could quite literally never. Or they could, but it wouldn’t make any difference. Or would it?   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Billie, Lauren and Rosa take the positive(s?) from the Palace win, and make their transfer wish lists (in AND out) and COYS resolutions for the year ahead. Because it’s the last pod of the year, we take one last weepy look back at Bilbao, the parade, and all the love we can give this club when it just shows us it cares. And most importantly of all, we dish out our Best of 2025 culture picks.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s your very special, extra festive, no-current-football-referencing Hometown Glory Christmas Quiz! Quizmaster Tom oversees proceedings as Billie and Lauren face off against Conor and Rosa for the coveted trophy. Play along at home!  FEATURING: 🎯Younes Kaboulseye 💯NumberYANG! 👹Uniteddy Sheringham Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s your mid-season Spurs Women deep dive: flowers for Martin, Toko, Olivia, Drew, Clare, Eveliina…you know what, flowers for EVERYONE. What a half season it’s been! Please don’t screw it up for them, The Lewis Family™️. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The office Powerleague team returns to get absolutely thumped by SEAN DYCHE’S Nottingham Forest. What is there even to say. Elsewhere, the women came agonisingly close to an incredible victory over Man Utd but were undone by, essentially, years of underinvestment. Crazy how bad decisions come back to bite you, isn’t it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tottenham followed up their best result at St James’ Park since the halcyon days of Steve Bruce with a very sensible 2 nil win over Brentford. Ash, Billie, Lauren and Rosa enjoy the break from Boogate, swoon over Xavi, and present the case for the prosecution AND defence of one Richarlison de Andrade.  Elsewhere, our beloved captain Beth England led the fightback against Villa, supported by the magic of Olivia Holdt. Also! Is cinema dead? For Billie’s sake, let’s hope not.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Following a spirited but ultimately futile showing against PSG, our extremely unmighty lilywhites crashed and burned against the mighty Fulham. At home, of course. Lauren and Rosa discuss the big questions: what on earth is Frank doing and for the love of god, why? Do we hate the players more than they hate us? How much trouble is the club really in? And of course: to boo or not to boo?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We count the ways in which the team violated Lauren’s Rule of Three for derbies: 1) Don’t embarrass the shirt  2) Don’t embarrass the fans  3) Don’t embarrass yourselves And we give our sincerest, most heartfelt thanks for Martin Ho and the players of Spurs Women, who understand professional pride.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your monthly Spurs Women deep dive is here, and in a truly serendipitous bit of timing, we’re bringing it to you right after a hard fought and well earned NLD draw. The perfect time for Lauren, Rosa and HG debutant Charlotte to assess the last few weeks: the highs, the lows, the fine-for-nows. The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards Spurs Women being good, we’re pretty sure.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a careful review of the evidence (tactics, team selection, results) and the mitigating factors (criminal squad building, increasingly surreal injury crisis, personality mismatch with a passionate but quite mad fanbase) we give Thomas Frank his first grades of the season. Let us know how much you disagree! Also, come and support Spurs Women at the NLD next weekend.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The fans hate the players, the players hate the fans, we all hate the stadium. Journey with us into the dark heart of Tottenham Hotspur. Unless you’re here for Tottenham Women, in which case, please continue to enjoy professional, competent football.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in, it is COLD…but we have the lovely glow of a 3 nil win at Everton to keep us warm and snuggly. Has Micky grown into the captaincy? Does everyone owe Vic an apology? Can we give Sarr a group hug? Elsewhere, we anxiously await the returning internationals of Spurs Women to work out if our season is finished or not… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Another home league game, another defeat, just the start we wanted to our run of six games in two weeks. What went wrong (this time)? Is it the squad? The system? The stadium? Is it US? At least Lauren made the right choice at the weekend: watching Olivia Holdt weave her magic against Birmingham City. No YOU’RE worried we might lose her (and Toko, and Martin) to a bigger club. Also: JUSTICE FOR AMANDA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spurs Women are still on course for 42 points AND they remain above Ballon d’Or team of the year. Lauren and Rosa review the loss that feels like a draw at Chelsea, check in on the international men of Tottenham, and look ahead to more Midlands mayhem with games against Birmingham and Villa.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Look at us! Welcome to your monthly Hometown Glory x Spurs Women deep dive. Lauren, Rosa and special guest Jacob discuss the new reality: competent defending, non-Bethany England goalscorers, a tactically astute manager, almost as many wins already as the whole of last season…what else could we possibly ask for? (We have some ideas about that too.)  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nearly two years and seven - SEVEN - games later, Tottenham finally broke the curse of the international break. Lauren, Rosa and Tom wonder just what to do now we don’t have to spend two weeks furious at our team. There’s even more to enjoy at Spurs Women as we move above Ballon d’Or team of the year with a win against Brighton. It’s almost certainly an accident, but our club might actually be competent again. (Except for that leadership team nonsense.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wolves: a hall of shame performance? The curse continues, despite Palhinha’s best shirtless efforts. Spurs Women bounce back at Leicester as the Olivia Holdt era truly begins. It turns out when you buy quality, good things happen? What a concept.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week our theme is crime and punishment. For the men: a return to one of the scenes of one of the many crimes of last season: Brighton away. For the women, simply another horrendous punishment meted out by Manchester City. And for us, an unimpeachable culture pick.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two away wins, five goals scored, none conceded. Lauren, Rosa and Tom pick out the best bits from a delightful COYS weekend, including but not limited to: wonder goals, unfazed defences, superb individual performances and actual team competence. Are standards back? They might be back!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Where were you when you found out that Daniel Levy had left the club? Lauren, Rosa and special guest Gareth Dace absorb the aftershocks of this seismic event. Who even are we now? Plus! Gareth talks us through his latest book, Hot Shot Tottenham: Spurs in the 80s. An era-defining chairman who transformed the club only to fall from grace you say? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s time for another round of hope versus expectation. The WSL is back, Spurs Women are back, but has anything changed? Lauren, Rosa and HG cousin Caroline assess the squad and try to figure out just how big a job new boss Martin Ho has on his hands. There may be some ranting. But there are also culture picks!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Tottenham faced two of their most deadly enemies: the transfer window and the international break. Joining Ash, Lauren and Rosa to work out what was most to blame for the defeat to Bournemouth (Frank’s tactics? Iraola’s tactics? International breakitis? Loser culture?) and to mark the window on a scale of one to Magnificent Seven* is our Brooklyn Spurs debutant Jonathan.  *10/10 Bryan Gil has been sold Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tottenham at the Etihad: different year, different manager, same result. How does this keep happening? Billie, Lauren and Rosa don’t care, because if nothing else is ever going to change (see: more transfer disasters) then at least we’re still (still!) Pep’s bogey team. Elsewhere, we look ahead to a tough fixture against both Bournemouth and the international break hoodoo, delight in goals (actual goals!) for Spurs Women in a ‘friendly’ win vs the scum, answer some listener questions (tl;dr: everyone loves Pape), and bring you our culture picks.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cuti signs! So does Djed! We enjoyed a comfortable opening day win! The super cup left us devastated yet proud! SO much to get into this week, and we still had time to bring you Ash’s review of *that* Sault show.  “I love football. I love this club. For me, this club is the best in the world.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’ve had joy. We’ve had heartbreak. We’ve had nonsense. We’ve had heartbreak again. After a typical Tottenham summer break, the 2025-26 season is upon us. Lauren and Rosa reassess the transfer window in light of Madders’ devastating ACL injury, discuss their hopes, dreams and fears for the upcoming season, squint hopefully at the Super Cup, and ponder what Burnley will bring. Plus! Credit for Spurs Women, culture picks, and a new weekly feature: the adventures of Ryan Mason’s West Bromwich Albion. COYBaggies!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lauren, Rosa and Tom bid a highly emotional farewell to the one who stayed: our captain, our leader, our icon, Son Heung-Min. The player who scored iconic goals and the person who united our club. The hero who took us to Bilbao and brought us glory. The kid from South Korea who became Mr Tottenham. We love you, Sonny. Thanks for everything.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, another farcical slash potentially criminal transfer saga comes to an end, with literally nothing else to replace it. Join us as we scream into the void of transfer nothingness, then let us soothe your frazzled soul with some joyous culture picks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices