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Welcome to the Plus Dave Podcast - a Tottenham Hotspur themed show, brought to you by an assortment of Spurs fans... and a Leeds fan called Dave. We will be bringing you our in-depth thoughts looking back on each week‘s game as well as a look forward to our upcoming fixture and a series of discussions about all our favourite Spurs players, goals, matches, teams and moments from years gone by.
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Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Episode 99 - A Bold Toktik
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Welcome back for a long-awaited return of the Plus Dave Podcast as Dags, Elio and Dave convene to discuss a win in the league followed by a win in the cup, but not before we listen live to the FA Cup draw to see who Spurs and Leeds both draw for the 4th round.
This week you will hear our thoughts on wins over Bournemouth and Burnley, a preview of imminent clashes with both Manchester clubs and some thoughts and feelings on an uncharacteristically busy January in the transfer window, with Timo Werner already confirmed.
There's also a short tribute to Eric Dier as he appears to be on his way out of Tottenham and there are more than the average tally of Elio rants/nibbles/meltdowns that the die-hard PDP fans have grown accustomed to.
Hope you enjoy!
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Episode 98 - Giant Gaping Højbjerg
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Saturday Dec 30, 2023
Season's greetings to you all and thanks for patiently awaiting the festive return of the PDP. Santa delivered 3 points to Spurs in one of his more generous gifts of the year but it would have taken a Christmas miracle to bring us back from a 4-0 deficit against Brighton in the following fixture.
We analyse both games and take a look at our ever-evolving crisis and the prospect of a challenging January with many players missing and look at how we could shape up by combining the ruins of our current squad with any likely new acquisitions in the mid-season window.
Also on this week's show, a tribute to our departing club legend, former captain and era-defining goalkeeper, Hugo Lloris who prepares to swap N17 for Los Angeles.
As if the episode title wasn't warning enough, as always, listener discretion is advised.
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Episode 97 - Getting Agricultural
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Spurs string together back-to-back wins for the first since October and all is well again with the world - almost. A full Plus Dave team brings you its analysis this week, looking at the slightly less convincing acquisition of 3 points this time around at the cost of yet more suspensions.
We look over the 2-0 win at Forest with a spotlight on Dejan Kulusevski and another on Yves Bissouma - for different reasons. There's also a look ahead to upcoming fixtures with the seemingly unbreachable Everton visiting next weekend before a trip down to Brighton.
There are more than the usual number of random tangents regular listeners have become accustomed to this week and Elio's voice battles bravely against a sore throat, managing, incredibly, to talk just as much as he usually does despite sounding like the lovechild of Sean Dyche and Marge Simpson.
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Episode 96 - Turning a Corner
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
We are so back! Tottenham come away with an impressive win and an even more impressive performance against highly-fancied Newcastle (albeit a tired and depleted version) to end our run of 5 games without a win.
With no Elio this week, a returning Dags is joined by Socs and Dave to discuss, arguably, our best outing of the season so far (as well as a slightly less exciting match against West Ham a few days earlier).
It's one of those games where we cant help but go through player by player and give them their due adoration so be prepared for that. There's also a lengthy discussion about the Cuti dilemma, a look ahead to the rest of our busy December schedule and a strange amount of Harry Maguire chat.
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Episode 95 - Davies’ Flying Header of Destiny
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
With Dags off sunning himself in Barbados, Elio takes over as host for the post-match analysis of Spurs' death-defying draw at the Etihad against last year's treble winners, Manchester City. As well as taking a few moments to look at the controversial refereeing decision at the end, and just how little Socs actually cares after a long history of Pedro Mendes and Lasagne-Gates in his Spurs watching career. We also look forward to West Ham's Cup Final against us next week and the looming threat of the dangerous resurgent Newcastle United.
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Episode 94 - Ham, Bacon and Pork Chop
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Tuesday Nov 28, 2023
Spurs lose again but at least this time we lose with style. Join an unusually chirpy 3-man team, given the circumstances, this week as we discuss what is our third defeat in a row and quite possibly the third of four with Man City looming.
Elio takes a week off but was still kind enough to send in a few clips of his thoughts on Sunday's loss, while Dags, Socs and Dave discuss a match that many feel could and perhaps should have been a home win, showing plenty of positive signs - not least, a particularly attacking and exciting lineup.
Also this week we give a short tribute to Spurs hero, Terry Venables who sadly passed hours before the Villa game and of course we have a brief preview of the next match with Man City on Sunday.
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
Sunday Nov 19, 2023
This week the Plus Dave welcomes an extra special guest - a familiar voice to some of you no doubt, and one of the founding fathers of Spurs podcasting - host of the excellent The Extra Inch Spurs podcast and huge inspiration for the PDP - Chris 'Windy' Miller.
Windy joins Dags, Elio, Socs and Dave in a fully loaded team tasked with keeping you all entertained this international break. In this special episode, we take a chance to look back over life under Ange so far, how the reality has strayed from the expectation, what the long term future might hold for this exciting squad and what the near-term future might bring in the midst of our mini crisis.
We talk tactics, squad depth, signings and the long game in this mid-season debrief. We hope you enjoy and, if you haven't already, please do check out The Extra Inch on whatever platform you use and follow the team @TheExtraInch and Windy himself @WindyCOYS.
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Episode 92 - Under Siege
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Thursday Nov 16, 2023
Plus Dave returns for a snappy one this week as Elio spends a week on the sidelines - there's only so much we can fill in for his monologues after all!
Join Dags, Socs and Dave as we look back on a tough late defeat to Wolves making it back-to-back losses to bring the Postecoglou honeymoon to a firm end. We discuss the evident impact of our injury/suspension crisis and how that might affect us across a difficult lineup of matches to lead us into Christmas.
We also take a quick look ahead to the Villa game after the break and see how we might approach that one and the challenges they may pose.
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Episode 91 - To Dare is to Do, Mate
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Our dream start has hit a major bump in the road. After flying out the blocks against Chelsea, the match fell apart in bizarre and spectacular fashion in an eventual 4-1 home defeat to our old boss that leaves us missing 4 key players for varying lengths of time through suspension and injury.
Through all this though, there remains a sense of positivity and pride in the way we still went for it and we are, of course, still right up there in the league with some positive to take.
The usual team try their hardest to go through the countless major talking points in an incredible London derby and provide their thoughts and feelings following our first loss of the Premier League season.
Join us for for an emotionally-charged, action-packed and foul-mouthed adventure, befitting of one of the maddest games we have ever seen.
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Episode 90 - Pochettinosaurus
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Another week, another win as Spurs find themselves (temporarily at least) 5 points clear at the top, but still out on their own at the top of the league, 10 games in. We're still not getting ahead of ourselves though, as we take it one game at a time...
This week it's Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park who did their best to make the soaring Spurs look fairly average for large parts of the 90 minutes but our quality showed through in the end. We look over that game and how it played out before looking ahead to a huge fixture as our old friend Pochettino looks to lead Chelsea out on our turf and take us on in our own nightclub/fortress in just over a week's time.
We discuss the impending welcome that awaits our old boss and also take a trip back to the Poch days to ponder what kind of match we could expect and where it will be won and lost - there are some bold predictions and some strong language (what else is new?)