For immediate release, 9 August 2013 Press release by Chris Miller Download as PDF Season Three of The Fighting Cock podcast Today, 9th August, The Fighting Cock podcast returns for season three. After two closed-season specials – ‘We need to talk about football Parts 1 & 2’ (#AMF) and ‘The Fighting Cock Fanzine Special’ – […]
Season 3. Episode 1. Fighting Cock. It’s back. New, improved, condensed into (just over) an hour of sweary nonsense. Flav, Spooky, Thelonious, Ricky and engineer Al with a frantic assortment of Spurs and random. Summer transfer glory. New players. Bale saga. Bale conspiracies. Windy. Expectations. Stubhub. Buncle Ricky. Max Headroom. No kebabs. Strap in. It […]
Believing in the impossible has to be part of what supporting Spurs is about. I am true Spurs supporter therefore I believe Andros Townsend has the potential to become a Tottenham & England regular. Forget Gareth , we have Andros. When Monaco thrashed Spurs on Saturday there was a feeling in the air that we […]
Clint Dempsey’s time at Tottenham has drawn to a close. Unfortunately for him, Spurs fans will remember him more for what he wasn’t than what he actually was. Football fans are notoriously fickle, and in the case of many players, they are prejudged unfairly. Dempsey fell foul of this at White Hart Lane, with his […]
It started like any other morning. But it didn’t feel like any other morning. Something was different. Something was new. I’d never woken up with butterflies in my stomach before. It was 7.12am. I’m not sure why I remember the time, I can barely remember what I had for lunch today. But for some reason, […]
The Fighting Cock returns for one more outing before starting for the season. Thelonious returns along with ZoC, Mark Butcher and Flav to discuss some of the finer issues discussed in the fanzine we published last season. We cover the role of social media in football today, what’s wrong with the matchday demographic, and the […]
After 53* games, 216 different voters and 18012 votes I give you the ratings for the season from the Glory Glory and The Fighting Cock forum members. *no votes for Carlisle in the League Cup The Team Many would say that the first half of the season was better than the second and with an […]
Glyfi Sigurðsson arrived at Spurs in a cloud of mystery. Poached from under Liverpool’s noses, he was initially seen as direct competition for fan favourite Rafa Van der Vaart, but as the year progressed so did his role. Players left White Hart Lane, but more significantly for Siggy, players arrived. Mousa Demebele, Clint Dempsey and […]
Our so-called striker ‘problem’ has been well documented on numerous blogs and on Twitter. Every time we enter a transfer window, an air of desperation for that elusive world-class striker sweeps across us. We aren’t helped by misleading NewsNow headlines or the ITK generation, but honestly do we need this mystical striker? This seasons disappointment […]
