Hometown Glory: Spurs x Culture

Lauren, Rosa and Sam lay an often turbulent and increasingly terrifying season to rest with a huge sigh of relief - they didn’t do it! - and a side of WTF - Poch sacked? We discuss the season’s heroes...

Wow, that one hurt. Lauren and Rosa feel all their feelings in the aftermath of Spurs Women’s FA Cup final defeat: heartbreak, angst, pride, and belief that we’ll be back, because this is only the beg...

Billie, Lauren and Rosa get together in the aftermath of another chastening week and exhort the fanbase — and our basket case of a club — to hold its nerve and stay the Ange course. (But also let’s en...

This is your post-NLD debrief: a safe space for sadness, anger, and crackpot conspiracy theories. Take a seat, feel all your feelings, and hopefully feel slightly better afterwards? PS we love you for...

The gang assemble for possibly our last peaceful pod on this earth. Yes, it’s the NLD this weekend and nothing can stop it from happening. We share memories of past trauma, choose the player we most n...

I don’t know if you heard, but Spurs Women are going to the FA CUP FINAL!!!! Lauren and Rosa take a long, joyous look back at that historic Sunday in Tottenham as our magnificent women came back from ...

A very special, overly-excitable, slightly nauseous FA CUP SEMI-FINAL PREVIEW POD! Rosa and Lauren are joined by HG cousin Caroline as they look back at the journey (inc. penalty shootout heroics and ...

Another day, another inexplicably inconsistent first half performance followed by a barnstorming - ish - second half fightback from our lilywhites. We ponder the complexities of our performance agains...

Another late win, this time against the elite warriors of Luton Town. We discuss Bissouma’s fall and Brennan’s rise, wonder what to do with Kulu, marvel at our magnificent captain, and beg Tottenham t...

Ash, Billie, Rosa and Sam come together to mostly ignore the actual football (bar a shoutout to GB’s heroics as Wales captain) to bring you the Hometown Glory Mount Rushmore Draft. Find out who the ga...

Welcome to Statement Win Sunday. The men took their revenge on Aston Villa by producing officially their most complete Angeball performance yet, and the women made history by finally scoring a goal ag...

Saturday afternoon against Palace: more low block hell, more divine Micky van de Ven, more Timo Werner tearing COYS message groups apart. We preview the Crunch Fixture that is Villa (with a bonus pop ...

We thought we were back! But it turns out we are kind of…not. We discuss the bizarrely soporific spectacle that was the Wolves game with a minimum of Ange angst - we’re zealots after all. Alas, no res...

Players, last-minute winners and VIBES are back! Our returning captain gave us just the lift we all needed in the win over an annoyingly good Brighton. Was it a well-managed game or a bit of luck and ...

Another day, another loss to Man City Women. But this time we did it without conceding a single goal to Bunny Shaw! We move. Incrementally, but we move. We also look back at the frustrating Merseyside...

Billie, Rosa and Tom discuss the 3-2 against Brentford that featured some excellent performances, some calamitous ones (sometimes from the same player), a bit of pantomime villain nonsense, a darts su...

Football’s strangest hoodoo finally came to an end last week as Man City knocked us out of the FA Cup thanks to a highly debatable/perfectly reasonable goal. Lauren, Rosa and Sam mourn the loss of our...

Rosa and Lauren reflect on Spurs Women’s chaotic win at West Ham in the eye of Storm Isha, and make our latest sales pitch to Grace Clinton after another dazzling performance. There are flowers for Ce...

Two big games to review for Billie, Charlie, Rosa, Sam, Tom and special guest Lauren: the spirited 2-2 draw at Old Trafford and Spurs Women’s chaotic comeback Cup win. We go through our winners and lo...

Join Ash, Rosa and Sam on their emotional rollercoaster as they react to being drawn against City in the Cup, and to the on-off-maybe-on-again-by-the-time-you-listen Radu Drăgușin transfer saga. We ce...

Happy New Year, everyone! Billie, Charlie, Rosa, Sam and Tom review the up-and-down-then-up-again festive period, before making some wild/entirely accurate predictions for Spurs Men and Women as we en...

NORTH LONDON IS (FINALLY) OURS. HG cousin Lauren joins Billie, Sam and Rosa to celebrate Spurs Women’s historic win over Arsenal at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Exactly how emotional were Lauren and...

The vibes are back! No, we will not be taking questions on the West Ham game. Rosa, Sam and Tom revel in the thrashing of Newcastle, delight in Richarlison’s goals and general demeanour, thrill over o...

We couldn’t end a losing run any other way. Billie, Rosa, Sam and Tom reconvene to celebrate the joyous nonsense of Tottenham Hotspur: somehow still Pep Guardiola’s bogey team. There’s love for Kulu, ...

Hang in there, brothers and sisters. Despite the crushing Lolo news, Ash, Charlie and Rosa desperately search for silver linings after defeat to Aston Villa. And they do pretty well! There's beautiful...

There definitely have been worse weeks to be coys…SURELY. Rosa, Sam and Tom regroup after that miserable loss at Wolves. Are there any bright spots? Are we really going to have to start GLC against Vi...

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 ...

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—includ...

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...

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 t...

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 Hot...

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, t...

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 T...

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 t...

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, Sout...

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 fortnigh...

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 t...

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 embarra...

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...

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 appr...

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, pet...

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 Prem...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 E...

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...

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 treatmen...

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 a...

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, hi...

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 ...

Rosa, Billie and Tom attempt to unpack two miserable defeats in the Cup and league. We then rouse ourselves (sort of) for previews of the Milan and Forest games, and (it’s that time again!) look ahead...

Like London buses… we bag a second, confident derby win. Billie, Rosa and Tom discuss unlikely goal scorers, Richarlison and Kane, Ben Davies reaching 300 games and marvel at how bad Chelsea are. The ...

Spurs might not be particularly good, but at least we’re not West Ham bad. Billie, Charlie, Rosa and (especially) Tom celebrate a nicely straightforward 2-0 home win full of heartwarming moments for H...

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! And YIKES. Billie and Rosa work through their feelings about our football club’s latest disaster(s) and try to find some reasons to be, if not cheerful, at least not to...

Ah, Harry. Our Harry. What a man, and what a privilege to pay tribute here to our club's greatest goalscorer. Charlie, Rosa and Tom present H his flowers, and assess a masterful win over the Tottenham...

Actual signings! Clean sheets! Goalscoring records! Criminal activity by our director of football! Billie, Tom and Rosa are joined by comedian David Alfie Ward to discuss the latest twists in the ongo...

Ash, Charlie and Rosa come together for a cathartic exorcism of the North London Derby. We dig deep to make sense of a day that felt off from the moment we took to the High Road, come to terms with th...

Another quiet week! Billie, Charlie, Rosa and Tom rattle through Qatar's flirtations with Spurs, two victories, the rise of Pape Matar Sarr, the awful treatment of Emerson Royal and outdated chants be...

Well, it’s all kicking off, isn’t it? Ash, Billie, Charlie and Rosa convene to assess the Villa defeat and the civil war engulfing Spurs—how much blame should Conte take? Is it all on ENIC and Daniel ...

Welcome back to the chaos that is Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, who did not give us even one game before we had to ask yet again, why are you like this? Billie, Tom and Rosa sift through the good, ...

Deep breath, everyone: the Spurs rollercoaster has pulled in until Boxing Day! Billie, Charlie, Rosa, Tom and friend of the show Tara try and make sense of the barmy 4-3 win over Leeds—with Tara talki...

Charlie, Rosa and Tom strap in for the emotional aftermath of defeat to Liverpool, while clinging to certain positives. Positive number one: our glorious returning Swede. We ask if booing in the stadi...

Love football, hate VAR. Ash, Rosa and Tom celebrate the joyous last minute winner at Bournemouth and try not to get TOO tinfoil about the disallowed goal against Sporting. We crown Rodrigo Bentancur ...

As surely as night follows day, this week the Tottenham rollercoaster took a real nosedive. Billie and Rosa cling on for dear life as they discuss what went wrong and try to work out if we’re heading ...

We’re good! Right? Ash, Billie and Rosa revel in the professional win against Everton, and Sonny's spectacular goals in the…less professional win over Frankfurt. Höjbjerg Haters are dispatched to the ...

Tom, Rosa and Billie reflect on the Brighton win and the emotional scenes after the death of Gian Piero Ventrone. Kane gets his flowers, not least for his CBeebies appearance, and the gang worry about...

The team contends with a tough COYS week—trying their best to keep level heads. In Antonio we trust. A tricky trip to Frankfurt is analysed, as our the issues facing the squad as they enter a big few ...

Cockerels > Foxes. Charlie, Rosa and Tom celebrate the weekend double over Leicester. There's plenty of Sonny joy to bathe in, a big, (accidentally) existential chat around "ConteBall", Rosa's valiant...

Charlie, Billie and Rosa are joined by Caroline Stefko of the N17 Women podcast as they mull over defeat in Lisbon and its rather outsized reaction online. How, we ask, does this team become properly ...

Still unbeaten and suddenly fun to watch? A good weekend to be Spurs! The full HG lineup toasts the entertaining Fulham win, with special mentions for Richarlison—WHL’s new "main character syndrome" k...

We’re back after a too-long break to talk about that draw at West Ham. What else did we learn from Wolves and Forest? How are we unbeaten yet playing badly? Are we actually playing that badly? 10 year...

We pick the bones out of a raucous visit to Stamford Bridge: How did we manage to get out of there with a point despite that performance? (Spoiler: Richarlison and Perišić.) Are we sometimes too quick...

The team recounts a hot, hazy, Pimm's-fuelled day in N17 as Spurs thrashed a hapless Southampton. Which iconic artist does Billie compare Emerson Royal to? Has Rosa passed on her curse? Will Tom accep...

We cannot wait for Saturday. To help get us in the mood, the team tackles 10 season-defining questions (including: first meltdowns, dream Champions League opponents, pre-match music revamps, favourite...

We’re back! The team reunites to each reveal our favourite summer signing (so far) and play keep/sell/loan with Antonio’s unfavoureds, while Billie hits us with his first Rolling In the Tweets (and th...

We did it! They team relive a weirdly stress-free in Norfolk and get very excited about our Champions League return—which might even mean a Saturday 3pm kickoff! There's, of course, special mention fo...

Well, here we go then! The team pore over a wild, wild week—starting with the edgy Burnley win, then Arsenal's St James' capitulation before we look ahead to Norwich. Who from the gang is confident an...

Emergency episode! Who knows what'll happen from here, but we needed to mark a glorious NLD win. We applaud the incredible THS atmosphere, the entire team's professionalism, Dav/Patron's surprise star...

We review the big pros and potential cons of the 1-1 at Anfield while trying and failing to not get too hysterical over an enormous NLD. Emerson Royal is quite rightly celebrated, Rosa has her big Ben...

The team reviews the Leicester win, the top four marathon and most importantly: Emerson Royal's new video drop. We toast King Sonny and the magic of Kulu, while Cristian Romero's latest no-nonsense ma...

Level heads! We try not to panic after the Brighton game while looking at what went wrong. Was it Rosa's fault for attending? Harry Kane's for going to the golf? Antonio Conte's for getting outthought...

The team breaks down a glorious weekend (Doherty news aside). How dirty were Villa or should we not get too The Arsenal about it? Just how much does Tom love Kulu? Is this the very best we've seen of ...

It's getting interesting! The team surveys the top four race—taking in our Newcastle thrashing and Arsenal's defeat at Palace—and gauges just how confident we should now be feeling. We also pay tribut...

A joyous and oddly heated episode! We bask in the afterglow of the West Ham win and each predict how the run-in will go down. There's a look at the toughest week imaginable for Spurs Women before we d...

Rob Daly is the much-loved voice of Spurs TV and one of football's best commentators. He takes on our Spurs Seven questions with Charlie and reveals the emotion behind those iconic last-minute Ajax, L...

The team remain calm as we pick over the United defeat and somehow, sort of, re-talk ourselves into the top four being on. Inspired by Tom watching the game in a Pret, listeners tell us the weirdest p...

Back to the top of the Spurs rollercoaster, as we toast the Everton thrashing and prepare for United away. Our Kulu Apology tour continues, we give thanks for  Rodrigo Bentancur, consider whether the ...

In a difficult week, Rosa and Charlie chat over the Boro defeat and consider how to make sense of why we all care *so* much (too much?) about our football teams. Spurs (and Conte) coping strategies ar...

Spurs are back! Again! We glory in the Man City win, dissect the "utterly deranged narrative" (Rosa) around Spurs right now, settle the Deki/Kulu naming debate, (eventually) salute Harry Kane and reve...

To mark the first sightings of Kulu & Bentancur, it's a Spurs Debuts Special! We reveal our favourite memorable Tottenham intros, and present some brilliant picks from you guys (Mido: very popular). T...

This was an emotional one. We all share our (and your) favourite Dele memories and consider his unique legacy: What made him special? Where did it go wrong? We also, of course, review the January tran...

We review the highs of Leicester and sobering lows of Spurs-Chelsea IV before handing out mid-term grades to the entire squad. Also: just how will the final week of the transfer window go for Wingers ...

A cathartic episode. The team share their thoughts on the NLD farce and look ahead to Leicester and (surely not again) Chelsea. We also pay tribute to Lamela's Puskás Award win by considering the best...

We tackle the Ndombele saga, make sense of the Chelsea and Morecambe debacles and preview the Carabao second leg and Arsenal game. The team also pay (quite underwhelming) tributes to Bergwijn, exchang...

Screenwriter and showrunner Joe Barton tackles our Spurs Seven questions, reveals whether Giri/Haji can be revived, discusses his upcoming Batman and Cloverfield projects plus much, much more. Joe’s S...

HNY! The team give their positives and irritations from the three festive games, preview The Chelsea Triptych and Morecambe in the FA Cup, consider whether we'd actually survive a NLD cup final, prese...

2021 has been wild! We pick our moment and player of the year, plus crown our favourites in music, TV, film and more.
00:00 — Where are we with Spurs?
18:48 — Moments & Player of 2021
40:21 — Culture ...

Broadcaster Abbi Summers joins Charlie for our HG Spurs Seven questions. She also talks brilliantly about the challenges of being a woman in football, gives excellent advice on handling trolls and bre...

The full HG team break down the Brentford win: How worried are we about H? Is Royal actually decent? Just what has Antonio done to Gentle Ben and Eric Dier? How good is Skipp exactly? Do we need to ma...

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