Doctor Tottenham (A Tottenham Hotspur Podcast)

Doctor Tottenham is a long-running weekly podcast built around a panel of Tottenham Hotspur supporters. It has passed 500 episodes. The format is deliberately unpolished. Regulars interrupt each other, restart sentences, and approach the same problem from different directions until one of them lands it. The framing device is medical: episodes open with a call for patient 1882 and a promise to see anyone feeling Spurs sick. Recent weeks have been grim ones for the club and the show does not hide it. Igor Tudor's reign ended after five Premier League games and one point, and the panel treats it as forgettable rather than tragic. De Zerbi arrived next, and the conversation immediately turned practical: is he still a tactical pioneer, will the set-piece coach stay, what actually changes. One panellist is teased as the resident set-piece obsessive. A night in Madrid produced a heavy defeat and a mini emergency midweek episode, with one of the group admitting he left the ground early. The following week's draw was met with cautious relief and a joke about whether the club could stay up. The football analysis is genuine and specific. Mental fatigue, basic errors and a lack of care for the badge come up again and again. There are arguments for giving youth players like Olesezia real minutes, complicated by a run of injuries to the young players who might otherwise step in. Romero is discussed as a galvanising vice-captain rather than a leader, and Archie Gray as someone who might wear the armband for a decade. English media coverage takes a beating too, particularly the habit of asking managers under pressure whether they fear for their jobs. Listener questions get read out near the end. The mood is usually bleak, sometimes wry, occasionally briefly hopeful. Jokes about laundry marathons, poker and a mangled outro keep the whole thing from collapsing under its own dread. Episodes are published early in the week and often supplemented by midweek reactions when something breaks. It suits anyone who wants Spurs talk from inside the fanbase rather than from a studio desk.