The Fighting Cock (Tottenham Hotspur Podcast)

EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/thefightingcock Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! We’re back after a huge win at Villa Park, trying very hard not to get carried away and failing almost immediately. We talk about De Zerbi calming everything down, the shift in mentality, Spurs finally looking structured again, and why this performance deserved far more credit than it got. There’s love for Gallagher, Bentancur, Palhinha, Richarlison’s pressing, Kinsky’s confidence, and the sudden feeling that Tottenham might have found belief at exactly the right time. We also get into Villa fans, the “food chain”, the relegation picture, West Ham, Forest, Peppa Pig, and the dangerous joy of feeling giddy again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Roberto De Zerbi is officially in, and we try to work out what on earth that actually means for Spurs. We talk through the chaos of appointing a third manager in one season, whether De Zerbi can keep us up, and why this feels both exciting and deeply unsettling at the same time. We get into the club’s lack of structure, the culture issues that keep repeating themselves, the kind of players who might thrive under him, and the ones who probably will not. We also tackle the Greenwood controversy and why it has left the fanbase so divided. It is messy, conflicted, funny in places, and very, very Tottenham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/thefightingcock Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! We started with chants. We ended with existential dread. Somewhere between 10,000 fans welcoming the team bus and Spurs collapsing on the pitch, everything went completely sideways. There’s stepmums talking about curtains mid-game, emotional damage, panic, and the realisation that this isn’t just football anymore… it’s affecting livelihoods. We try to make sense of it all, fail miserably, and just about hold it together. Kind of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/thefightingcock Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! We finally feel something again. After months of numbness, Spurs put in back to back performances that actually give us belief. We talk about why the Atletico result might be the real turning point, how Igor Tudor seems to have flipped the mood inside the dressing room, and why this suddenly feels like a team again. There’s love for Archie Gray, a look at Mathys Tel’s raw potential, and a bigger chat about why jeopardy might be exactly what football needs to matter again. Plus, the Forest game looms, the fans are mobilising, and for the first time in a long time it feels like we’ve got a chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/thefightingcock Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! We dip into the Patreon questions and end up covering just about everything: grim workplace toilet stories, Sunderland away loyalty point obsession, the need for Spurs fans to pull together for the run-in, and the brutal reality of more injuries at the worst possible time. We chat about the gap between fans and players, whether the dressing room is broken, the Nick Boucher stuff, the retractable pitch theory doing the rounds online, and whether winning in Bilbao was still worth everything that’s followed. Proper Q&A pod chaos, basically. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Donate to Marcus Jones fundraiser: https://www.justgiving.com/page/perranporthafcquiznight With no game to ruin the weekend, we opened the floor for a full Q&A and it went exactly where you would expect: strange work stories, irrational Spurs superstitions, ticket price arguments, and a proper look at what relegation would mean for this squad. We talk about who stays, who goes, why so many of these players look checked out, whether Tudor has any chance of turning it around, and why the thought of Pochettino still gives us something to cling to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get 15% off your eSIM today—download the Saily app or visit saily.com/thefightingcock and use code THEFIGHTINGCOCK at checkout. We woke up at stupid o’clock and did what any sane Spurs fan does: immediately spiralled. With relegation starting to feel properly real, we talk through the dread, the anger, and the weird mix of acceptance and panic that’s taken over the fanbase. We get into why people are genuinely talking about not renewing, how years of mad recruitment and constant managerial pivots have left us with a Frankenstein squad, and why Tudor already feels like another roll of the dice. There’s a bit on the “agenda” chat too: not because we think there’s a conspiracy, but because the inconsistency and the Premier League banter account nonsense is driving everyone mad. Palace is the acid test. If we don’t show up there, it’s going to get really dark, really fast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/thefightingcock Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! We try to make sense of another brutal North London derby as hope gives way to anger, gallows humour and a bit of soul searching. We chat Tudor’s first impressions, refereeing frustrations, the mood in the ground, and whether belief got the better of us again. Plus some classic nonsense about oodies, leaving early, and why supporting Spurs feels like an emotional endurance test. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices