We review the highs of Leicester and sobering lows of Spurs-Chelsea IV before handing out mid-term grades to the entire squad. Also: just how will the final week of the transfer window go for Wingers FC? Should we chill out over Conte leaving us, or is that just a part of the neuroses of being a Spurs fan? Can Spurs Women bounce back from a tough couple of weeks? And, of course, our weekly culture picks (feat. a surprising Dawson's Creek detour).

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00:00 — Leicester and Chelsea

15:00 — Mid-term reports

39:00 — Transfers

55:15 — Culture recommendations (Tom: Euphoria [HBO/NOW/Sky Atlantic]; Rosa: Yellowjackets [Showtime/NOW/Sky Atlantic] and tick, tick... BOOM! [Netflix]; Charlie: Fragments by Bonobo, CAPRISONGS by FKA twigs and Physical [Apple TV+]; Billie: Licorice Pizza [cinemas])

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A cathartic episode. The team share their thoughts on the NLD farce and look ahead to Leicester and (surely not again) Chelsea. We also pay tribute to Lamela's Puskás Award win by considering the best ultimately pointless Spurs goals, commiserate over some last minute devastation for Spurs Women and reveal our weekly culture picks.

If you fancy skipping to certain bits:

00:00 — NLD nonsense

17:21 — Leicester and Chelsea previews, transfers & Eriksen

40:20 — The Best Pointless Spurs Goals Ever

48:58 — Spurs Women

53:26 — Culture recommendations (Billie: TITANE [cinemas]; Ash: Eazy by The Game & Kanye West and Kanye West's Sunday Service [YouTube]; Charlie: Girls5eva [Sky/Peacock]; Rosa: Measure for Measure at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Ringer-Verse [podcast] Spider-Man: No Way Home [cinemas])

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We tackle the Ndombele saga, make sense of the Chelsea and Morecambe debacles and preview the Carabao second leg and Arsenal game. The team also pay (quite underwhelming) tributes to Bergwijn, exchange some (not at all underwhelming) rants about various Spurs nonsense, Charlie tries to sell everyone on Adama and Tom requests an unlikely rebrand. All that, plus our weekly culture picks.

If you fancy skipping to certain bits:

00:00 — Chelsea 1st leg and Morecambe chat

21.16 — Chelsea 2nd leg

29.33 — Arsenal

40:42 — Transfers

54:37 — Culture recommendations (Rosa: Human Acts by Han Kang; Ash: Music Box [Sky/NOW]; Charlie: The Lost Daughter [Netflix] and All or Nothing: Juventus [Amazon Prime Video]; Tom: Fall by John Preston)

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Screenwriter and showrunner Joe Barton tackles our Spurs Seven questions, reveals whether Giri/Haji can be revived, discusses his upcoming Batman and Cloverfield projects plus much, much more. Joe’s Spurs Seven answers are superb: especially if you’re a fan of “brilliant, glorious failure”, Giovani dos Santos, the challenge of keeping your kids away from Arsenal, hooped socks and “mood enhancers” when watching Champions League semi-final second legs. 

If you fancy skipping to certain bits: 

00:00 — Joe’s career and his disgustingly exciting 2022 projects 

23:00 — Spurs Seven questions 

51:51 — Joe’s culture recommendation 

The HG Spurs Seven:

1. Spurs origin story
2. All-time favourite Spurs player
3. Favourite terrible Spurs player
4. Your match-day rituals 
5. Favourite Spurs shirt
6. Your Spurs heaven, and your Spurs hell
7. Where are you with Spurs right now

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HNY! The team give their positives and irritations from the three festive games, preview The Chelsea Triptych and Morecambe in the FA Cup, consider whether we'd actually survive a NLD cup final, present our Spurs New Year's Resolutions and reveal the first culture picks of 2022. It's good to be back!

If you fancy skipping to certain bits:

00:00 — Crystal Palace, Southampton and Watford reviews

24:20 — A million Chelsea games

34:20 — Morecambe

40:20 — Spurs New Year's Resolutions

52:50 — Culture recommendations (Rosa: Encanto [Disney+]; Tom: A Very British Scandal [BBC iPlayer/Amazon Prime Video] and Gone Christmas Fishing [BBC iPlayer]; Charlie: A Very British Scandal [BBC iPlayer/Amazon Prime Video], Dopesick [Disney+] and Curb Your Enthusiasm [Sky Atlantic/HBO]; Billie: King Richard [cinemas], Don't Look Up [Netflix], The Green Knight [Amazon Prime Video], Spider-Man: Homecoming [cinemas], Spencer [available to rent], The Matrix Resurrections [cinemas]; Ash: Music is History by Questlove)

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2021 has been wild! We pick our moment and player of the year, plus crown our favourites in music, TV, film and more.

00:00 — Where are we with Spurs?

18:48 — Moments & Player of 2021

40:21 — Culture of the year

ASH

Moment: ESL/acting like a big club.

Player: Hugo.

Music: "CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST" by Tyler, The Creator & "NINE" by Sault.

TV: "Can't Get You Out of My Head".

Film: N/A.

Other: Salt beef bagels, Panzer's Deli, NW8.

BILLIE

Moment: Lucas sub.

Player: Hugo.

Music: "We're All Alone In This Together" by Dave.

TV: "Mare of Easttown".

Film: "Another Round".

Other: "Tiga Presents: First/Last Party On Earth".

CHARLIE 

Moment: Ryan.

Player: Sonny.

Music: "For Those I Love" by For Those I Love.

TV: "Succession".

Film: "Palm Springs".

ROSA

Moment: Sacking José pre-cup final.

Player: Hugo.

Music: "to hell with it" by PinkPantheress and "Mother" by Cleo Sol.

TV: "Ted Lasso".

Film: N/A

Other: "My Phantoms" by Gwendoline Riley and Ask Polly substack.

TOM

Moment: Having fans back.

Player: Hugo.

Music: Overmono, and "good 4 u" by Olivia Rodrigo.

TV: "Sex Education".

Film: "Bo Burnham: Inside" [Netflix].

Other: Paula Rego @ Tate Britain

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Broadcaster Abbi Summers joins Charlie for our HG Spurs Seven questions. She also talks brilliantly about the challenges of being a woman in football, gives excellent advice on handling trolls and breaks down working across both traditional media and the new, disruptive breed of online, often fan-led coverage. Abbi also explains how supporting Spurs makes you a better human being, talks about being a season ticket holder since age eight, begins manifesting a Jan-Mousa-Christian-Toby future Spurs management quartet, reveals her unlikely Jermain Defoe merch and much, much more. Abbi's great: Enjoy!

If you fancy skipping to each part:

00:00 — Abbi on her career and women in football.

13:25 — Abbi's Spurs Seven

The HG Spurs Seven:

1. Spurs origin story
2. All-time favourite Spurs player
3. Favourite terrible Spurs player
4. Your match-day rituals 
5. Favourite Spurs shirt
6. Your Spurs heaven, and your Spurs hell
7. Where are you with Spurs right now

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The full HG team break down the Brentford win: How worried are we about H? Is Royal actually decent? Just what has Antonio done to Gentle Ben and Eric Dier? How good is Skipp exactly? Do we need to make more noise inside the stadium? And didn't the place look incredible! We then preview Norwich with cautious excitement and big up Rosa's Jenna Schillaci interview before reaching our weekly culture recommendations. Marvel and Beatles fans: you're in for a treat.

If you fancy skipping to certain bits:

00:00 — Brentford

21:30 — Norwich

34:30 — Culture recommendations (Ash: Seventeen Going Under by Sam Fender and Virgil Abloh's final Louis Vuitton show; Billie: Hawkeye [Disney+]; Rosa: The Club [Netflix]; Tom: George Condo at Hauser & Wirth [London])

41.05 — Tom & Charlie won't shut up about Get Back [Disney+]

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Jenna Schillaci is a true Tottenham hero. She talks Rosa through her astonishing 12-year Spurs career: one that took in eight trophies and captaining our rise from regional football to leading us out in the WSL as a professional outfit. Coming from a huge Tottenham family, Jenna’s HG Spurs Seven answers are brilliant (we especially enjoyed hearing about her dad using his black cab to round up enough teammates for Jenna to play, changing room tunes, the team’s Sunday Fun Day, how we can all better support Spurs Women, whether she’d want to become Spurs boss now she’s coaching at the club and her name our stars of the future) and we loved having her on. Spurs Women simply wouldn’t be where they are without Jenna. 

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It's Daws! Our iconic former captain takes on the HG Spurs Seven and talks Conte, why us fans love him, struggles under Ramos and AVB and fun times with Jol and Redknapp, ketchup, his favourite Spurs shirts, Ledley, not wanting to go out in public when Spurs lost, Bale, having spag bol (and garlic bread) before every single game and much, much more. We love you, Michael Dawson.

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