Yule The Roost | A Christmas Special: Favourite Spurs Memories & Why We Love This Club

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0:12Hello everyone, Merry Christmas and welcome back to Rule the Rouge podcast. Now, if you've managed to carve out a few precious minutes for yourself, maybe the mandatory post in a dog walk, maybe you're checking something in the car, or maybe you're just staring into space trying to digest a cheese board and you found yourself wondering, has one of the podcasts come up trumps for today? Well, you've come to the right place. As I'm sure we all know, Spurs haven't been exactly great the past few weeks. Or months. Or years. Has it ever been good? It hasn't been all bad. And for today's special, I've asked a number of friends, members of the Rue La Roost universe and familiar voices from the wider Spurs podcasting sphere to send in their absolute favourite memories.

1:07We're going to try and remind ourselves exactly why we love this dry, stuffed turkey of a football club. So, head down, enjoy, come on you Spurs.

1:24Hello everyone, Big John Bass here from the Fighting Cock. First of all, Merry Christmas to everyone. Hope everyone's had a lovely time, whatever you're up to. When I was thinking about what story I could share, immediately I was drawn to Bilbao. I was immediately drawn to huge wins, you know, big games against Arsenal, big wins against Arsenal, and those obvious successes. but actually I wanted to go back a little bit further and think about a time that I particularly shared with a very close friend of mine and my friend Nick who's one of the reasons that I support Spurs and him and I had the opportunity to get season tickets when we moved to Wembley and the game of course I'm thinking about is Real Madrid 3-1 at Wembley and it was just one of those, the whole day was a very surreal moment they were the reigning champions I believe at the time And obviously this was 2017, so Ronaldo is peak of his powers at this Real Madrid team.

2:27And it was just an amazing feeling to be essentially watching Spurs play against the European champions, albeit at Wembley, which didn't have the same hold of being able to play at the Old White Lane. But it's still obviously an amazing national massive stadium. and so this feeling of this feels like a huge moment a huge game this feeling of my team hosting the European champions a great Real Madrid team just felt like an amazing moment and to share that with one of my best friends and for us to kind of go to the game and be talking about it the whole time be super excited was just really really special and you know I kind of went into the game thinking well Ronaldo's definitely gonna score right at the time peak of his powers one of the greatest players of all time and there's an inevitability about this Real Madrid team but ever the optimist I kind of went into this game really feeling like and believing that there was the potential that we could do something right especially that Pochettino team I always just had this feeling that something could happen we could do something one of those players will do something and when the game kicked off the atmosphere was absolutely incredible now Wembley as anyone knows who went to see Spurs during that time it was a bit hit and miss with the atmosphere it wasn't as bad as I think people expected it to be and certainly not as bad as it's made out to be but Spurs and the fans all of us really brought something super special that night, it really was a spectacular feeling of emotion and just like we're going to bring this to you tonight that Pochettino side embodied and I think as a fan base we really captured that night And so when the goal started flying in, right, Dele gets that first goal, the roof comes off.

4:17I've never experienced noise like that. That was actually like insane. And even when I'm reliving that in my mind, talking about it, it just really brings something quite special to me into my mind, which is just amazing. So, yeah, I think that moment, and then obviously he gets the follow-up, and then the Eriksen goal really was the kind of cherry on top, like an incredible moment. And we completely battered them. Like, we completely played them off the park. And so, in a way, that Ronaldo consolation goal, seeing, again, one of the greatest players of all time score a goal, just sort of, it didn't even bother me.

4:54I kind of was like, that's kind of better in a way, that he scored and we've still smashed them up. So beating Real Madrid 3-1 at Wembley in the Champions League, that Pochettino side, 2017, was really one of those special moments that I will cherish for a long time. And sharing that with one of my close friends, Nick, was just an amazing moment and will live with me forever. So yeah, once again, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas especially to Jack. Hope you're having a lovely time with the family. and it's the first Christmas with the little one so enjoy and to everyone listening to this like I said, Merry Christmas hope you're having a lovely time with your loved ones it's a really lovely time of year so I hope everyone's having the most fun that they could possibly have and wish everyone a Happy New Year as well Big John over and out peace

5:51thank you very much John much love appreciate that and uh yeah Real Madrid what a game I didn't actually get to go to that one I was working that day and I remember rushing back from I'd been filming this thing um like the the non-league series I've spoken about before I'm here with Hainsey and I remember thinking all the way back on this train journey like I loved that job I loved what I was doing at that point but this game in particular was one of those where we we were imbued by this sense of belief weren't we that Spurs had turned a corner to the degree where playing against Real Madrid wasn't just the sort of fixture where we were happy to take part you know it wasn't like a pre-season friendly vibe or at least I got to see Spurs play against Real Madrid there was this sort of sneaking sense that let's see what this team can do.

6:49Let's see what this Tottenham team can do against a team like Real Madrid. I remember getting into the pub. The shark was waiting for me. We were living in Wandsworth at the time and getting to the pub down there, it being on the TV, managing to get in there in time. And it was one of those where what I do remember about this evening is this sort of random hanger-on who was sitting in the pub on his own. Our sort of age, wasn't like an old guy or anything. But obviously, you know, he'd come to terms with the fact that we were, not come to terms with, but realised the fact that we were Spurs fans and was kind of taking the piss he was a Chelsea fan.

7:34Being like, oh, you know, look at you all excited about tonight. It's going to be a good game, isn't it? And then watching goal after goal fly in and just seeing his face sink and then him just sort of slinking out the pub away from us because he couldn't stand it was brilliant. But yeah, what a wonderful, wonderful evening. And one that, yeah, like you say, you'll remember forever because it was a glimpse at the fact that that team, it affirmed a lot of what we all knew back then, that that Spurs team weren't just Spurs fans over embellishment or anything like that. They were a legitimate side full of truly phenomenal players.

8:20None less than Dele Alli, who absolutely stole the show that night. And we'll always have a place in many of our hearts, won't we? But yeah, thank you very much again, John. And now I'm going to pass over to Gavin. So go on, take it away, Gavin. Cheers, mate. Hello. I thought I'd try this Adam Buxton style while walking the dog. So I think one of my favourite Spurs memories was the first game at the new White Hart Lane. I had moved back home at that point. I was doing a university course. I was totally skint and I didn't even have a Spurs membership. I entered a competition online on Twitter, which I think is now known as X.

9:10and I won so I won two tickets with a little stadium tour so I took my my dad and he's the man who's responsible for imparting this love of this maddening football club we obviously won and it just felt like a momentous occasion that night it felt like a hopeful new dawn Spurs entered footballing modernity and of course Sun scored which was lovely and very fitting and really it's just all been on the up from there isn't it? So yeah that would be one of my favourite moments I think as a Spurs fan. For me personally being able to so unexpectedly share a really significant moment in Tottenham's history with my dad like I said at a time where I didn't think I'd be able to is actually very, I think it's a memory that I'll cherish the rest of my life actually so yeah, happy Christmas and I hope you have an excellent new year Thank you very much Kevin I too went to the first game of the opening of the new White Hart Lane, not that I remember much of it because I rather uh smartly decided to spend all day in the pub took the day off work and yeah don't remember an awful lot of the game or the fireworks I see all the photos of the fireworks that happened afterwards the you know huge display around the stadium everything like that I was sat in my seat for it and I don't remember a second of it at all the next day seeing the photos and stuff i was like what when did that happen did it happen after the game did i leave too early um but no it happens so yeah i'm hard he says does i not drink he drinks next a man who needs no introduction but he actually introduces himself so i'll let him take it away hey rule the most podcast it's dan kilpatrick from view from the lane podcast the number one Spurs podcast available.

11:30The Spurs game that will always stick in my mind from a kind of human and I guess sort of personal emotional point of view is the 2-1 win over Arsenal in February 2015 when Kane scored twice, Spurs came from behind. It was kind of early potch, it was when Spurs were coming up, it was when things were good, effectively. And it was just before I started reporting on Spurs free spn as a job so i was kind of just a fan um and the story is i was kind of going through a quite messy breakup at the time of a sort of five six year long-term relationship but i'd agreed with my mate to go backpacking in nepal um and i really didn't want to go backpacking in nepal because i kind of wanted to sort of save this relationship and stay in london and um it felt like a ill time sort of holiday but we'd arranged it so anyway flight to nipal land and i'm totally miserable the whole journey there like stinking the place out for my mate um not on good form at all but we land and i i've put the flight well in advance and i've the game's been rearranged or something and i've realized a couple of weeks before that i'm landing literally an hour or something before the game kicks off so I make my mate who's a Liverpool fan race through passport control baggage claim basically go straight into Kathmandu and find a sports bar where we can watch the game still with our backpack so we do this we get through the streets we find somewhere and I'm still kind of completely miserable not wanting to be there finding it all really alien and strange and sort of discombobulating.

13:16And then came into Biospurs to a really well-deserved, brilliant turnaround. And it was just the best example I can think of, of sort of my football team completely transforming my mood and the way I felt about everything and just my whole outlook on what was going on in life. So suddenly I was really enthusiastic for the trip to Nepal. I think I probably made my mate George go on a night out. I can't really remember what happened. But I loved it. And I can never forget watching it in the strange Nepalese, or it felt strange to me, sports bar, literally hours after getting off the plane. And it just felt good.

14:02That Spurs team was coming up, was really lovable. And it felt like such a good time to be supporting Spurs. And it was, it really was. so yeah that's the game that I will never forget particularly because for the next kind of 10 years I didn't really go to Spurs as a fan at all my whole relationship with Spurs was sort of through the press box so that was a kind of great memory to have just before I started work Thank you very much Daniel, happy Christmas much love to you and the family i remember that harry kane game in particular because i'd actually just uh this is again another one of my humble brag things isn't it but still whatever i uh i just filmed the thing where i'd sort of shot some promotional stuff i was working with a a large international sportswear brand at the time um my job was always to identify opportunities to sell their product in an authentic way on social media and so i'd made the case you had a big sort of spreadsheet of all of their athletes all of the athletes who were signed up to them um for you know commercial opportunities and stuff like that and so when kane obviously had scored the goal against villa and we were all starting to get excited about him because it didn't seem like the wheels were going to fall off as far as we were you know concerned anyway in the lead up to to the north london derby there was this particular kind of this all conditions jacket training jacket thing for young players to wear and the narrative behind that product was persevere hard work you can overcome anything if you train hard enough and obviously Kane was coming along through Spurs's ranks so I looked through this spreadsheet yes Harry Kane is an athlete yeah he's on the books we can use him and so I had to make this case to them to my bosses and to them saying look this kid's narrative I'm not just saying it because I'm a Spurs fan I was kind of saying it because I was a Spurs fan a bit but I'm not just saying it because I'm a Spurs fan we can use this kid to sell that product His story tallies entirely with this product.

16:32And they're, of course, being like, yeah, but everyone makes fun of Spurs. People are kind of making fun of him because he's, you know, a bit of a donkey and all that type of stuff. And you're like, no, no, no, but surely that's it. It's perfect. Honestly, trust me, trust me, trust me. And so they agreed to do it. And we went out to the Hive in Barnett's. Is it there in Newground or the Royal Ground? Anyway, we went to the Hive in Barnet, and along comes, with no fanfare, nothing like that, a young Harry Kane who was just really appreciative and really happy to be asked to come and do this photo shoot for, as I say, a large multinational sports brand that had probably not really paid him much attention before other than you know when he got signed up in the first place and we just took a load of photos of him training in this jacket thing kicking balls about running through a few cones and all that type of stuff just general sort of training shots but i do have a i've got a shot from that thing that i worked on on the wall behind me that i have framed yeah they gave it to me when i when i left actually when i stopped working with them um but on the wall behind me so you'll see you can spot it maybe when I'm doing one of my streams or something like that but he obviously went on and scored the goals that he did and it was very nice and it's a very fun memory but yeah so I'm basically I'm hijacking Dan's point and making my own point out of the back of it but it's my podcast I'm allowed to do that anyway moving swiftly on to a very dear friend of mine Mr Connor Mumry Connor take it away lad so my favourite Spurs memories I would say the obvious one that a lot of people are going to be going for is Ajax obviously we were in Amsterdam together had a wonderful time but I'll go for something a bit more niche mix it up a bit for you so when Tottenham beat Chelsea in the League Cup to qualify for the UEFA Cup in 2008 the group stage phase of that I used to go down with my brother so he used to drive us down obviously Thursday nights and we played Wiesler Krakow in one, this is technically two games I'm sorry Jack, I hope that's allowed or more sort of a period Visa Krakow and Dina Mazagreb this time they didn't have a manager in prison and we won Visa Krakow was the first one so that was still one day Ramos and that was in late September 2008 and that was our first win of the season Darren Bent scored David Bentley scored I missed the David Bentley goal as did my older brother so I would have been 15 at the time because my older brother was taking me to Tottenham without our dad for the first time and basically didn't trust me to not get lost so I needed a piss before half time so he had to come down to the concourse where he didn't have to, he came down to the concourse and waited then obviously we missed the goal in the second half Darren Bent scored a late winner Dina Mazagreb was a 4-0 route that was I believe Harry Redknapp's first European game so obviously poor one, they almost had gone by then it was only a month or so later 4-0 Darren Bent hat-trick what a player but the reason that was one of my favourite periods following Tottenham is one, going with my brother being at that sort of age 15, 16 obviously Tottenham hadn't been in Europe for quite a long time up until that point so just seeing Tottenham in Europe at that age was very exciting and yeah just the whole experiences of going down with my brother as I said he used to drive us down I remember obviously because it was a group stage, it was autumn so it was freezing cold, he was driving us down the motorway to Tottenham with the windows down so we could smoke tabs on the way down.

21:22I remember that smell, brilliant smell by the way, and used to take us to the Bricklayers pub on the high road, so I was at that age 15-16 where I was pretending to like warm flat Stella in a picture in the bricklayers garden which yeah obviously I'm not sure they would have been bothered but obviously my parents weren't there and it's just me and my brother so that was the first time so he properly got me into drinking and pretending to like warm Stella and it was just a great experience all of that because I was 15, 16 you know a bit into a football factory in Green Street and thought I was hard because I was wearing a feeler match day jacket we were sitting in we always used to sit in block 35 in the park lane obviously right near the away fans and you know there were maybe 3 ,000 Dinamo Zagreb fans all topless flares and all sorts going mad and because I'd had some two to three pints of warm Stella at 15 years old thought nah we'll have them so all throughout the game my brother basically trying to stop me, you know, giving him the wanker signs and the cutthroat gesture and stuff at 4 ,000 topless Croatians with flares and stuff.

22:51But yeah, just absolutely love that period and when Europe sort of felt, yeah, really, really new and exciting for Tottenham fans. Thank you very much, Con. And as somebody that's gone to quite a few games with Con down the years, I can tell you that his habit of liking warm Stella and wearing casuals clobber and thinking he's hard hasn't changed. So, yeah, you know, it's nice of you to reflect on that, Con. And it's good to see that you've come a long way since you were 15 years old. But, yeah, lovely. Now, again, another man that needs no introduction, but I'll introduce him anyway because it's just polite, isn't it?

23:40Bardi from The Extra Inch. So take it away, Bardi, mate. Becoming distant. For reasons beyond my control, I had to emigrate this year and for the first time put real distance between myself and this football club. My last game was the dismal performance versus Villa where we lost to two long-distance strikes, one from Rodgers and one from Matty Cash of all people. I walked down the high road that evening and I thought, thank God, I don't need to do that again for a year. But I was wrong. Over my first few weeks of being one of those 7.30am kickoff fans, it quickly dawned on me that being distant from Tottenham hasn't actually impacted me or made me feel any better.

24:22Sure, I'm not spending the same amount of money, but I feel the same stress, tension and disappointment as I always did when I stood in the cold watching them. I also feel the same joy and relief when things occasionally go our way. But the real difference is I feel the disconnect between me and the Spurs community. That's where I'm distant. My friends, my acquaintances, the people that sit around me and I see twice a month at most. That is what it is to be part of a club, the people. And now from distance, I realise that. In Bilbao in May, I arrived two days early because I found cheap tickets.

24:58And I was wandering through the streets alone. And I heard Spurs fans. Immediately, I felt at home and safe. I don't have that sense of belonging here. I'm too distant. This football club is an amazing mess, but it's mine. And being there when shit happens is important to me. Being there and seeing my friends go through the same thing is why I think we all keep tipping money into this club's mouth. What the execs at Tottenham realise is we're not paying to watch. We're paying to watch together and be together. That's why football is so different from cinema, gigs or theatre. We keep going despite the reviews because this is part of who we are and doing it together makes it feel better.

25:40Being thousands of miles away and being a distant fan, I realise now that my season ticket, my client reference number, is about belonging to something. I miss spurs, but I don't miss spurs. I miss what it means to be part of something bigger than 11 idiots doing idiotic things on a weekly basis. I'm distant and I feel distant despite modern media keeping me closer than ever it's the people who are the heart of this club not the people being paid by the club thank you very much Bardi and Bardi who has recently moved as he says out out to Colombia I don't think that's the secret anyway sorry if it is and has taken to watching as I see from his Instagram stories, his local Colombian sides who have already won a trophy.

26:31So, you know, mate, being away from Spurs maybe actually isn't all that bad at all. It can be different. Teams can win things. But what was it? We just won in Bilbao. All right, enough of that chat. It's Christmas. Ho, ho, ho. Now, a good old friend of mine, Mr. Tom Mitch. So here we go, Tom. I'm going to go with a game from the 2005-2006 season which I think to me represents the kind of foundation of the next semi-period of success that we experienced at Spurs under Redknapp and subsequently Pochettino via AVB and Sherwood I think we were used to finishing nowhere near the European places let alone attempting to qualify for the Champions League So 2005, 2006, we know how it ended.

27:24We finished fifth, thanks to a lasagna. But other than that, it was a season in which we actually felt like we were challenging and consistently winning games, consistently putting in good performances. The game I'm choosing to mention is the one against Blackburn, which I think was in February or March of 2006. And from what I remember, it cemented us in the top four and things were going to be looking really good for the rest of the season. I just remember it was a bonkers game. it was a sunny day I went with one of my best mates sat in the south stand in the park lane and it was a bonkers game we went 2-0 up very quickly first of all was that beautiful goal by Robbie Keane where he flicked it over Savage's head which was glorious, lovely to see I think we were like second row we were much closer than I normally sit and it was fabulous to see Savage get done by a bit of Keane magic He went on to score past Brad Friedel.

28:21We went 2-0 up pretty quickly and the atmosphere was just great. We were having a great time in the park lane that day. Blackburn came back to 2-2. I remember Craig Bellamy was having one of his pretty regular, very productive days against us. I remember he was pretty much hammering young Keogh Lee at fullback and he got a goal. Cinema upon goal got a goal as well in the second half, I think, which made it 2-2. And Blackburn were absolutely battering us after them. Their goal was fully deserved. But then we went up the other end and I think it was Aaron Lennon crossed for Mido to smack one in the top corner from about two centimetres out.

29:07And we won 3-2. So, you know, not a kind of huge game in the great scheme of things. I just remember it being a really entertaining one during a point of my Spurs supporting life where things were really starting to feel like we were on the way up. And yeah, it cemented us in fourth place, which was something we just hadn't dreamed about for years before that. And definitely, in my mind, represents the era where we were kind of on the up with a good few years ahead of us in terms of good football, great players and some near misses, obviously, as well. But yeah, great day out, great game. Tom, thank you very much for that, mate.

29:51I really, really love that Robbie Keane goal. It's one of those almost sort of inconsequential goals now because it's when Spurs were on the way up, like you say there in your voice note, but actually weren't particularly great. We weren't really contesting anything seriously. and Robbie Keane was I think one of those players that as soon as he came to Spurs wasn't really respected I always remember Robbie Keane playing for obviously Wolves, Coventry, getting the big move to Inter Milan that not really working out for him coming back to Leeds doing really well at Leeds everyone being quite excited about him remembering actually he's a really good player maybe he can just put Inter behind him and then when he signed for Spurs as is the case always he sort of became another one of those players where it's like, well, yeah, you know, that he maybe is just at that level.

30:42But, you know, he used to smash it for us week in, week out, and used to do some absolutely wonderful things. And, yeah, I mean, I think sort of speaking personally, Robbie Keane's always been one of those kind of players who I loved, and I really, really loved him at the time. I thought he was brilliant. Just the fashion in which he left probably sullied it a bit. But it's an interesting one. is an interesting one because he was such a brilliant player for us for so long. Maybe he doesn't quite get the respect he deserves. What he doesn't get the respect for is that goal, the goal he scored in this game, which was absolutely unbelievable.

31:18If you've not seen it yet, hunt it down. Have a look. But thanks very much for that, Tom. Next up, Sean Walsh. Hello, Jack. Hello, Royal The Roost listeners. It's Sean Walsh from Goal. and the game that I'm going to pick is Tottenham 1, Man City 0 from the 2019 Champions League quarterfinals, the first leg which stands out to me for a few reasons it was a few days after the city was inaugurated against Crystal Palace, a 2-0 win but that really felt more like a relief, let's get this over with don't screw up on the night sort of event but then playing at home in the Champions League against a team like Man City who I believe were I think they might be the tournament favourite at that point because they went on to win the Premier League.

32:02They couldn't get the Champions League monkey off their back, but I think people expected them to roll through Spurs. And that's not what happened at all. I was also, between jobs, it was the longest period of unemployment in my personal life, but it did allow me to go to games more, particularly with my dad. There'd been a long stretch when I was at university and didn't really get to go with him, but that was the start of us going together again before COVID. and we sat in the East End, which was unusual. I've never sat in the East End since this game. So it really sticks out. And when I had to think about memories of watching this game, watching all the events unfold, you obviously have the TIFO going up.

32:45You know, that was the first of its kind at the new stadium and you really felt, wow, the fans can make this a real special place. The atmosphere was electric. We had the VAR controversy, which I think gets lost in the VAR controversies of this tie. You know, there's a handball against Danny Rose, which no City player appealed for. The ref goes to the monitor and everyone's a bit confused and gives the penalty, which I think looking back, it probably was a penalty. His arms were raised. And then the Reeves saves it. And this was a period where the Reeves was saving every penalty. I think he saved three in the span of about a month.

33:17I think he saved from Varley and Aubameyang around this time as well. But then apart from that, we just never would ever save a penalty for Spurs. So he had that. That got the stadium rocking. And then Kane goes over injured about 55 minutes, I want to say. Like a really bad tackle from Delft that Potts really lays into him for. And you think, oh, that's it. Like, it's a bad one. Not even the game's over, but the season's over. He's hobbling down the tunnel straight away. And it's like, oh my God, this is it. And then Spurs keep battling and they go on and on and on. And it ends with Son picking up this loose pass.

33:53well loose touch of his really from the touchline cuts inside fires on edison and the place goes crazy and the limbs are insane and i remember because we couldn't get seats that together so i was like um with this random fan just we were shaking each other just couldn't believe like i was gone in like wow this is incredible and spurs see out the win 1-0 against again a mad city side that they absolutely pick up their powers i remember my dad kind of like being oh you got we go out a drink before we go okay all right fine we'll see how it goes because i think it's something that we take for granted now because there haven't been that many recent good memories at the new stadium but the stadium stays open late you're allowed to get your your drinks in there and i haven't seen scenes like it since really part of this is because i go more as a journalist now as a fan but the concourse still packed until the closing time just after 11 and everyone people i'm telling you people were dancing i was sending clips if i can find them people genuinely dancing on the concourses singing songs um and it was just it was just incredible like you're you're just doing this with people that you've never met before like they really just really felt like the one club one family and it is sad looking back now because you know the club seems broken in so many different ways not because spurs can't buy a win at home so maybe that's why it stands out more and maybe that's what we're longing for but it's kind of why I will never there's lots of issues with the club but the stadium the stadium itself isn't one I think when if the fans are happy that stadium is a magical place it's worthy of being the kind of successor the second coming of White Hart Lane and I'll never give up on that and I really hope that there'll be more moments like that in the future and the club can sort itself out and we as a fan base can enjoy it again.

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36:48Sean, thank you very much, mate. And you know what? I'm glad to hear a bit of justice for that fixture and justice for that atmosphere. Because I've often felt that. When we beat Arsenal 3-0, was it 3-0 or 3-1 in the end? When we scored three against Arsenal under Conte, and as Gary Neville said, the Tottenham fan base brutalised Arsenal that day. The atmosphere was mad. And I remember people at that time saying, that's the first real occasion that there's been in this stadium. That's the first real time we felt real atmosphere in that ground. And I was thinking, what? The victory over City in the Champions League was one of the most unbelievable nights of my life.

37:31It was unbelievable. And it did, it made me think, God, this stadium could be quite something. But it is that double-edged sword, isn't it? I think when you've got a stadium that's that big, that's that flashy, bad football, it doesn't suit it. It doesn't fit well. So, look, nice big ground. Let's get some more wins. Let's make some more happy memories there. And let's also hear what Billy T's got to say. Hello, this is Billy T. I'm going to talk to you about Tottenham Memory. Now, this might really shock you to hear. I'm sure I'll be the only person to sort of pull out this. because Spurs fans don't generally speak about it at all.

38:16But do you remember 16-17? I know, it's a forgotten season that Spurs fans don't often mention, but allow me to talk about it, if I may. So when I talk about 2016-17, obviously that is sarcastic. I don't think a Spurs fan goes a single day without remembering that season and talking about that season, particularly in the wake of what it's like at the moment. I read a stat today that said our goal difference that season is better than this season and the previous four combined. So there you go. That's a nice little stat for you. So I'm going to talk about 16-17. I'm not going to go for the big ones, which I know I'm sure some people might have done, like White Hart Lane, Last Farewell, Man United, the last North London derby.

39:07I'm going to go for something which for me summarises that sort of unbeaten run I'm going to go for Tottenham 4 Watford 0 the reason why that run was so important and so special to me was because I essentially had a group of mates that I went to every single game with and I mean every single home game and we used to meet early doors on Tottenham High Road, Seven Sisters sometimes as early as 7 o 'clock in the morning and I just remember being young how cool that was, wasn't it? that was brilliant and um walking down seven sisters with cans and going to the building and sometimes we get to the building so early that they would literally open it for us and uh just it was just a magical magical time and i remember walking down high roads with my group of mates every single home game and not being scared of anyone who had turned up to white hart lane um knowing pretty much comfortably that we'd smash them uh usually three or four on earth there, a mid-table fodder.

40:02Chelsea asked, or whoever it was, don't really care, we'll beat them as well. And obviously we won all but two of our home games that season. And the football that we played was just absolutely unbelievable. Watford came to White Hot Lane in April that season when we were kind of still keeping the pressure on Chelsea and we smashed them up 4-0. The reason why I chose that game is because I specifically remember an incredible goal from Dele Alli and I kind of feel like Dele Alli sort of epitomises that run because he was like he's almost like the viewer in a film or TV show he's always like the viewer's eyes and ears because he was new to the team as well and sort of came rising for the ranks it was like a good metaphor for the actual team just through Dele Alli and his attitude was unbelievable came in straight away from League One and just absolutely smashed up the Premier League.

41:02Scored on his debut against Leicester and then pretty much every other game since and was just a joy to watch. Scored an absolute banger in that game where he curled one into the top corner I believe. And the sort of youthfulness of that is sort of tied to the youthfulness of that season for me. So really, really special. And obviously some of the other goal scorers, I think Son scored and Eric Dier scored and And as time goes on, the reason why I think we all mention it so much is because that was the last time that we truly had an identity. We had a core of young English players. Kind of breaks away, but it's just good to see a kind of new players coming through, isn't it?