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S2E41 – The Finale

The last episode of the season. Flav, Spooky, Ricky, Thelonious, Charlie and engineer Al. One more time. Sunderland. Bale. Phantom goal. 5th not 4th. AVB. John White Memorial Match. Alan Sugar. Substitute Windy. Goodbye to season 2013. Levy’s message to the fans. Fav memories. 1882. The FC Player of the Year awards. Deep Al. Aspirations for next season. Questions. Wrong in sixty seconds. The End. A massive thank you for all of your support this season and for downloading us. [...]

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Landing on Our Collective Feet

Amid the various ifs, buts, maybes and “get your chequebook out Levy” tweets, thoughts and conversations occurring via social media, in pubs, houses and going home from games, one man propped up a bar and reflected upon the season past – but importantly not to comment too much on what has gone before. There are obvious statistics that will set the final standings apart from all others to-date. Spurs’ highest-ever Premier League points tally and the most points posted by [...]

The Charles Blondin Conundrum

The 2013-14 season is already the most important season for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club since the last most important season. As a football club, we are on the threshold of joining the cream of Europe. We have delivered a world class training facility and we will hopefully see the first signs of an iconic vision emerge from behind the hoardings of the Northumberland Development Project. One could argue that we have even finally been accepted by Sky and the other [...]

Spurs: Close But Not Quite Ready

One thing we as Spurs fans have learnt over the years is that the league table doesn’t lie. After 38 games we find ourselves the 5th best team in the country. Is this a catastrophic disaster? Is it the end of the world? Of course not, we are where we are because that is where after ten months of football, we deserve to be. The summer will be painful, but think back, we have endured worse hours than finishing a [...]

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Failure? What Failure?

How more ‘Spursy’ could it get? An entire 38 game campaign hinges on two results on the final day of the season. Win and hope that Arsenal don’t and we finish fourth, AVB is a hero, and the press dig into a slice of humble pie. Fail to win, or indeed win, and see Dial Square beat Newcastle and we finish fifth, AVB is crap, and the media sharpen their knives for an all together much different reason. Its that [...]

S2E40 – Park Life

Mark Butcher aka Lustdoctor joins Flav, T, Ricky and engineer Al for the penultimate episode of the season. Bricking it. Stoke away, keeping the dream alive. Wigan. Points and form. Huddlestone. 1882 and the U21′s. Palace portaloos and Holmesdale fanatics. Moldova, little figures emerging from the woods and Pringles. Transformers. Prick of the week – guess who? Wigan/Newcastle Hotspur. Windy’s yoof update. Player(s) of the Year – get your vote in. Sunderland at the Lane, where the dream will either [...]

Me, Myself and 1882

The Under 21′s Semi Final of the U21′s against Everton, offered me the perfect chance to experience 1882 for the first time. As an East Stand lower regular, who is used to getting looks for singing at games, I was looking forward immensely to getting involved in the singing aspect of 1882. My mood was dampened though by the fact that my 15 year old son had to stay at home due to his first GCSE exam the following morning. [...]

1882 Makes My Grandad Pogo

After attending and enjoying the 1882 experience at the NextGen series game against Barcelona last year, I vowed to return. When it was announced that our Under 21 Semi Final against Everton, was to be an 1882 event, I immediately contacted my 70 year old granddad and persuaded him to come along. My granddad has had a pretty tough year with his wife getting cancer, his son going through a messy divorce and a court case. To be fair I [...]

Feeling the Love for the Lane

The die has been cast, the season has arrived at a climactic showdown and what better place to have it settled than at White Hart Lane? The grand old stadium has played host to some of the greats of English football, and still stands as a beacon to days gone by. This season frequenting Spurs its significance to me has been burned into my soul, I love the Lane. Stood at Mill Hill Broadway station on a gloriously sunny afternoon, [...]

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