S15E26 - Micky van de Ven

The Fighting Cock (Tottenham Hotspur Podcast)

The Fighting Cock

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Visit MedExpress.co.uk to check your eligibility and get £40 off with code TFC. We react to Tottenham’s 3–0 win away at Everton: a clinical, professional performance built on set-piece precision and defensive control. We break down Micky van de Ven’s brace, Pape Sarr’s late goal, and Guglielmo Vicario’s key saves that secured another clean sheet. We talk about Thomas Frank’s growing influence, the balance between pragmatism and style, and what this win says about Spurs’ development into a team that can grind results on tough away days. We also dig into the bigger picture: how set-pieces have become a defining weapon, what Van de Ven’s rise means for the back line, and whether Spurs can sustain this form in the race for the top four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here you are.
0:02.4	And still Ricky Villar!
0:04.2	What a fantastic run!
0:05.9	He scored!
0:07.4	Amazing goal!
0:10.2	Hi, it's Mike Lee from the Spurs Show podcast.
0:13.2	To commemorate the 35th and 45th anniversaries of our 1981 and 1991 F.A. Cutwins,
0:20.1	join both sets of those trophy- lifting players at a special Spurs Show
0:24.2	podcast event in the Algarve Portugal, June the 5th to 8th, 2026. Three days and nights of
0:31.1	celebrations with your Spurs heroes from the 80s and 90s at a five-star hotel and spa. Go to spursportugal.com for all the package details.
0:40.8	It's a once and a lifetime getaway.
0:43.4	Don't miss it.
0:44.4	Spursportugal.com.
0:49.0	It's the flight in.
0:53.0	It's the flight in. Clock. It's a flight in
0:54.2	Cuck
0:56.1	It's a flight in
0:58.2	It's a flight in
1:02.3	Cuck
1:04.1	A camel
1:05.3	So, boys, can I, can I shock you?
1:08.5	Go on, I actually quite like set pieces now. I think they're right. Are we the set piece FC? I'd take it. I don't mind being it. When it's you, I don't mind it. It's like having a horrible player that you love. Like it's an Eric Lamella, isn't it, the set piece? You know, winning games via set piece is like the Eric Lamella of football, really. And when you've got him, you adore him. If you have to play against him, like Stephen Hunt, you loathe him. What, Alex, I can imagine you've got a player that you despise who used to play against Totten Matsby,, you just despise the rationality. Oh, against us? Yeah, well, we, I mean, yeah, talking to players you despise do you play for spurt, is it? Well, yeah, I mean, there's only a couple, but against. You got any of you hated, Ben? I got some that I hated that then we signed. I hated Richardson. Everybody. I literally couldn't stand him. Now, we all hate him. I hate that. And I kind of still do, yeah. I've still never let it fully go, I don't think. We hated the ones, like the piggy ones. Remember the piggy ones? Like Chris Brunt. Chris Brunt, I hated him.
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