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“Comfortably the best check-in with first team comings and goings for Tottenham Hotspur fans, this must-listen bi-weekly airing is the perfect “It’s the hope that kills you…” round-up of that most mercurial of football clubs.
It is masterfully MC’d by the deceptively proficient Danny Baker. An old hand in all things Tottenham, he’s no less quick to remind you that, but for an unfortunate accident of childhood, he really ought to’ve been an Arsen*l fan. This birthright is never more evident than in his near constant whining, though there’s a healthy dose of sanctimony thrown in for good measure.
Jack Maw is very much the brains of the operation. He’s the only one comprehensively educated, after all. Empirically, he’s the biggest and best Spurs fan on the pod; but, too young for the ‘91 Cup final win, is understandably resentful the club have perennially failed to match his lofty ambitions. As the Daniel Levy of the pod, you’ll welcome his opinion whether it’s informed or not.
Tarquin Eccleshare represents that rarest of Tottenham followers: the emotionally competent. So rare indeed, they had to transfer this one in from a more insouciant fanbase. Eccleshare would be the Matt Damon character to Toby Young’s Ben Affleck in a Westminster School production of Good Will Hunting, and he brings a calming injection of banality to otherwise hormonal proceedings.
Geoffrey Pitt-Brooke was a first round draft pick from the Manchester City Tyrants in 2019. That he’s come to associate his own personal career milestones with Tottenham’s inevitable near misses is at once pitiable and endearing. I love him the most.
Latterly, Neil Howie, of Black Country stock, has joined the crew. Only time will tell whether he impacts the pod more than the pod impacts him… He remembers who Steve Bull is, so that late-1980s nostalgia void is now covered too.
And to anyone despairing at the gentrification of football, at the attention given to those who confuse a tantrum with an insight; or to anyone bored senseless by the mind-numbing mewlings of entitled middle class men raging at an essential capriciousness of life - embittered by some vicarious concept of failure only ever fleetingly witnessed through the vicissitudes of their chosen representatives in this most Thatcherite of post-Thatcherite sporting arenas:
Feck-the-feck-off. This is our game now.
C⚽️YS 🦾”
]ourneyman via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
08/10/23
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“I’ve been a subscriber / listener from the beginning, but after one episode of Danny Kelly, I’m done. Terrible audio quality, no flow, show seems lost.”
mattkerwin24 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/15/21
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“tautology of agreement without any basis.”
kenn.m via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
09/10/20
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“Frankly it is tedious to hear DK’s uninformed rants. I’m sorry that JPB AND CE before his maternity leave have had to try and speak intelligently over the nonsense.
Spurs are three off the top and unbeaten until this game. What does DK know? A great deal less than the commentariat that you hear...”Read full review »
jgbowen via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
10/03/22
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