Tim Spiers

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2,293 appearances 13 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · What If... Abramovich bought Spurs instead of Chelsea? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

Um but it's interesting to think about some things that would or wouldn't happen at Spurs.

I mean, does Harry Kane does he does he become a first team player?

In in you know, if you look at what what Chelsea are and the amount of young players that they've had to sort of discard or sell over the years

You could you know, they don't tend to send players on loan to Norwich and Leicester to groom them for first team football, you know, and have the and have the persistence and patience that Spurs did with him with what was it, Sherwood and Ferdinand around that time.

So I guess how what Harry Kane just never becomes a Spurs legend in this time.

It's hard it's hard to envisage.

Yeah, it's hard to envisage that, isn't it?

Yeah.

There's also, you know, you look at sort of Lampard and Terry being the sort of cornerstone of that.

Chelsea was you know, Spurs had had their own sort of young talents around that time, like Ledley King, Robbie Keane, obviously they signed Dafoe, I think they signed Michael Carrick around this time.

So there's a really nice sort of cornerstone of English and and sort of British and Irish talent there.

Um when did when was Spursy coined?

Does Spursy even become a

I'm not sh I think that was I think that's a fairly recent thing.

Yeah,

I was just thinking of Spursy.

And also but the lives of of thousands and thousands of people are uh uh are changed beyond recognition.

Matt Spurs fans I know are just really just just a bit down.

You know?

No, I mo

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