Spurs Through The Ages - A Brief History of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Spurs Through the Ages is a ten-episode narrative podcast series telling the complete history of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club — from schoolboys on Tottenham Marshes in 1882 to the Europa League triumph in Bilbao in 2025. Each episode is thirty minutes, built around six segments: an introduction, historical context, the main narrative, a Player of the Era portrait, a Fan's Eye View, and an outro.
The series is structured to give each of Spurs' great eras its own episode. The golden age of the 1960s — the Double, the Cup Winners' Cup, the Greaves years — receives special attention, as does the Pochettino renaissance and the question that haunts modern Spurs: why does a club of this size and identity win so rarely? The answer, this series argues, is woven into the fabric of what makes Tottenham who they are.
The emotional spine of the series is the motto: Audere est Facere. To dare is to do. It is not always a story of doing. But it is always a story of daring.
Spurs Through The Ages - A Brief History of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Latest Episodes
Episode 6 : Gazza, Sugar and the Premier League Genius, boardroom warfare, and the era when English football changed forever (1984–2001)
The late 1980s and 1990s is Tottenham's most turbulent off-field period — and one of their most dramatically eventful on it. Terry Venables takes charge in 1987 and signs two of the most charismatic players of the age: Gary Lineker and Paul Gas...
Episode 5 : Ardiles, Villa and the White Art Relegation, renewal, and the Argentinians who changed English football (1968–1984)
The aftermath of glory is always difficult. The early 1970s brought more silverware — the League Cup in 1971 and 1973, the inaugural UEFA Cup in 1972 — but the great Double team was ageing, and no coherent successor was being built. In 1974, ex...
Episode 4 : Glory, Glory Bill Nicholson, the Double, and the greatest era in Tottenham's history (1958–1968)
This is the episode that defines Tottenham Hotspur. In October 1958, Bill Nicholson — a Scarborough-born man who had given his career to the club as player and coach — was called into the boardroom and appointed manager. In his very first game ...
Episode 3 : Push and Run Interwar - Hardship, a second World War, and the philosophy that made Spurs Spurs (1922 – 1952)
The two decades between the wars are a time of fluctuation — three relegations and three promotions, the yo-yo rhythm of a club that could not quite find stability in the top division. The 1928 relegation under Peter McWilliam is a shock. The 1...
Episode 2 : The Football League and the First War - Tottenham join the big league, find their home, and lose a generation (1901 – 1921)
The 1901 FA Cup win changed everything. Suddenly Tottenham Hotspur were not just a Southern League club with ideas above their station — they were a name that commanded attention. In 1908, riding the credibility of their Cup triumph and years o...