Gripes about performance and tickets to one side, missed a couple of games and on my way to the Lane. Nowhere else I'd rather be.

It would be a very easy win to reduce prices by 25% across the board. They’d still be making a tonne more than at the lane. But it’d get them some much needed credit from the fan base.

Micky van de Ven's goal recreated in Lego! Credit: u/starbrickstudios

Even after a defeat or shite game I'll still usually see people and have a laugh with them. That's a great powerful thing about football is how it brings people together. Put them off and it becomes a solitary, less enjoyable experience.

Club email offering ST holders (and members?) chance to buy guest tickets for Fulham, Brentford. So sales not going well then. Bearing in mind that until now most PL games are effectively sold out. Fans had enough so pick and choose? Will club see price as a factor? Feels like something has changed

Football can be fun. Who knew? Lovely evening

Truly awful. Brainless. Second game in a week where we crumble under intensity and pressure. Couldn't even kick the ball down the other end.

FA Cup day and radio reporter has used the word cupset. Fundamentally wrong

Great photo from Jason Cairnduff for Reuters at the Hill Dickinson Stadium yesterday

Renaming the blog Bentancur's Shoulder

Blogging used to be my bread and butter, especially when I worked in B2B copywriting, it's nice to get back into the flow for the CL games. Go check out my BBC piece. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

These people. Utter contempt for you and me. Who pay for this.

Here in Kent it's all going swimmingly under Reform www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

Big recommend for the Little Richard doc on Channel 4 available now called I Am Everything. Sharp on his career, music and place in US culture. Man, he's a performer

The ever-excellent new @wsc.co.uk is out, full of good stuff. It includes a piece wot I wrote about Levy at Spurs. Quite ironic really - usually it's about the latest manager he's sacked, this time it's about him getting the Spanish archer. The biter bit.

Just seen this. Wonderful

COMING SOON - A new Spurs nostalgia podcast to supplement my books! Please follow @spursnostalgiapod.bsky.social for details on Season 1 that will drop during the next international break. Trailer featuring @damejulie.bsky.social and @poddenhampodspur.bsky.social to come later this week!

Powerful stuff by Tottenham. I’m so sorry for the losses experienced by Chris, Micky, and everyone else who had to say goodbye to a loved one who gave up their life. Your mental health sometimes doesn’t just change for the better. It needs attention and you might need help.

I have a spare for Wolves on Saturday - anyone interested? needs you to be a member to transfer it (I know not my rules the club are annoying)

Anyone need or want two tickets to Wolves? FV or maybe even a little less. DM me!

Another gem. Christ on a pedalo is my new go to when I'm hacked off

This. The vid gets this well, especially with simple words to check with your mates if they are ok.

The private equity firm Apposite Capital has quietly been plundering the care system for vulnerable children and young people. Here’s how. 🧵

Much better second half. More food for thought as Frank finds our most effective shape in midfield. Brighter with Xavi at 10, maybe two 10s we had at one point a bit of a luxury!

Bergvall drifting wide right again. Obvs tactical as he's done so in the past but Bentancur less creative centrally and it makes him easier to handle.

Essential thread from Rob. Public service journalism. Thank you

New NAO report finds the cost of a place in a children's care home has nearly doubled in 5 years. The biggest private providers make average annual profits of 22.6%, many backed by private equity. And many children aren't getting what they need, placed far from home, in unlawful settings

I’ve never felt so disheartened. My small business means everything to me and I want to keep going. Please have a look at my website. Buy things, commission me or repost. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk Thank you.

Evening shout for today's Tottenham On My Mind piece on Levy's legacy aka what could have been

The Levy legacy. What might have been. Flawed. Not straightforward. Contradictory. And perhaps the epitome of a modern chair that will resonate with supporters of may clubs. tottenhamonmymind.com/2025/09/07/t...

@mrchrisaddison.bsky.social a while back, elsewhere, you offered advice about writing. One point above all else - get to the end, then edit. I was writing non-fiction but reckoned it still applied. So I did, and now I have a doctorate. So thank you

Question now is, what is the owners’ vision for the club? Looks very much like the Lewis family have made their move and this could be very positive. But we need clarity and transparency. I’ve seen too many false dawns. #coys

Blimey to the max. Speculation but wonder if the Lewis family want to change things. In which direction remains to be seen

I post this, 2 hours later we hear he has been sold. COINCIDENCE?! Yes.

On this day of days, am I the only one thinking of the long serving players, the unsung, the waifs and strays.... Bryan Gil, where are you?

Best thing that can be said about today's performance is that Frank learned a lot about his squad's capabilities. Coaching takes hard work and time.

The first edition of The Football Fan for the new season is out now.

Spurs never on the ball but Alasdair is. Includes a detail of the Grealish negotiation that I remembered, except thought I was approaching senility, because surely it could not be true that Grealish wanted to join then we offered £3m plus Onomah

Looking forward to the morphine. It dulls the pain. Maybe I'll hallucinate that Spurs have bought a creative midfielder tottenhamonmymind.com/2025/08/21/n...

'I Was There' is the title of Top PR Alan Edwards's compelling memoir and it could just as easily apply to his football life as his showbiz story. This still from fellow Life Goaler @amylawrence71's excellent '89' doc shows him on his way to Anfield on ‘that’ night... theodelaney.com/life-goals-lin…

This is the problem many of us have, and have had for many years, with Spurs' transfer policy. We clearly want Eze so be decisive and get him. We have the cash - don't we? The success he could be part of means the extra outlay is an investment, not money wasted. I don't get this strategy at all

I talk about Tottenham Hotspur on this, if that is the kind of thing that you are interested in. It's a good one

My seat in 519 available today if anyone is interested (sitting elsewhere with the kids for this game)

Excellent, thanks Ally

So far I've 5 or 6 guesses at the formation! Whatever, I've got that good feeling that comes round every year after the phoney war of friendlies - the season starts here. Also - Byfield on the bench. Good luck to him

Thanks for the kind wishes. To those asking to read it, it's not yet available to share. Also it's academic writing, therefore uses 37 words where two will do and gives evidence for every comma

Couldn't have done it without the support of Johm Williams who my son spotted in this London News report on hooliganism from 1983. Incudes Spurs content. An historical artifact... youtu.be/xcNl8KeTDRU?...

Some personal news. On Friday I successfully completed my Viva at Leicester University and have passed my PhD thesis. It examined the changing relationship of Spurs fans with the club. Many of us may be against modern football, so how do we relate to that? In other words, I really am Dr Tottenham

On Life Goals, writer and topophiliac Simon Inglis tells me he gave up his job as a match reporter on the nationals because he just wanted to watch #AstonVilla. Part two with the foremost authority on football heritage and sporting architecture is out now theodelaney.com/life-goals-lin…