Stoke away is assessed, and special attention is paid to Danny Rose, who had an interesting afternoon. We spoke about Game Of Thrones too, obviously. Sam Diss from Sabotage Times was our West Ham guest, and aside from his choice of club, he was an absolute delight. We talked about kebabs, spotting footballers in public, his passionate support of the BNP and there was some football thrown in at stages too. We closed the show looking over De Boer's recent kissy faces, discussing whether or not 'th...
Apr 29, 2014•1 hr 8 min
This week, we've found a pornographic parody of Game Of Thrones - imaginatively titled Game Of Bones - that naturally takes precedent. We discuss beating Fulham a little bit, too. Eriksen is good, Sandro is funny and Sherwood is still a laughing stock. We discuss who might come in to manage the side this summer, and take in to account recent developments at Manchester United. Because he's done the past two opposition interviews alone, Bains does a Lamela and doesn't show for this weeks, leaving ...
Apr 23, 2014•59 min
West Brom, Fulham, Game Of Thrones - all the things you've come to know and love. Raj presents and does the interview alone...again, but Jack is about in the worlds loudest office to help open and close the show - the magic of editing. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ruletheroost . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 18, 2014•57 min
This week, we welcome the victory against Sunderland with as much enthusiasm as we do the return of Game Of Thrones. We discuss Kane, Eriksen, Van Gaal and can't find a manager between us that we wouldn't want over Sherwood - not even Pardew. West Brom is previewed with an opposition guest, and for a change, it's just by Raj rather than Jack, but all is explained as we tear down the proverbial fourth wall. Much happier disposition around the show this week, it's a wonder what a half decent win, ...
Apr 09, 2014•1 hr 32 min
Liverpool discussed, odd Jack inspired unplanned book club mentioned and Luis Suarez not called a racist, so we'll do that here instead. Tunnel slouching, Vertonghen and Lloris leaving, Barça ban effects on Tottenham all looked at also. Sunderland soon, so we had Gareth from Wise Men Say back on, who given where his club are and how they're playing, was probably more downcast and depressed then we are, which is really fucking saying something. To end, a Levy voice is performed in famous YouTube ...
Apr 02, 2014•1 hr 20 min
Benfica away is discussed and the comeback against Southampton analysed. Jack has a rant that starts off supporting Sherwood, but seems to call for his head by the end of it. He's a bit undecided. Liverpool fans are on again and Bains makes things awkward in record time. He literally has no regrets.Things, as they seem to have been more and more recently, get a bit depressing towards the end. We decide to remedy it by scrapping the usual ending in favour of a performance reading of an extract fr...
Mar 27, 2014•1 hr 15 min
Benfica and Arsenal at home are discussed with all of the passion of a dead green eared spaghetti monster. Southampton is previewed with Steve Grant of The Saints Web and neither of us think we're going to win. Neither does Steve. Alfredo is back to talk Benfica, lovely and gracious as ever he was, also giving Raj chance to play mind games by bringing up the curse of Béla Guttmann and Jack spared us a repeat of the pigeon Portuguese. We keep losing and we've got a gilet wearing gooner as our man...
Mar 17, 2014•1 hr 25 min
This episode of Rule The Roost is dedicated to the memory of Darren Alexander, who was the Joint-Chairman of the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust. Sadly, he passed away suddenly last week. Our best wishes and thoughts are with his loved ones at this time. Chelsea is discussed, Sherwood is evaluated, tears are shed and group hugs had yet again. Benfica at home is previewed with our first ever European guest. Look at us going all continental. Jack speaks bad portuguese, who knew? Arsenal at the...
Mar 13, 2014•1 hr 59 min
Dnipro comeback, Cardiff win, Soldado goal - all summed up in the most Rule The Roost fashion possible. We then talked Chelsea with Joe and Freddie, who are both fans of that particular club. We talked about their players, manager and likelihood to win the league. We didn't question their morals as much though, sadly. Freddie gave us a painful story about Jermaine Jenas stealing his university girlfriend with 50" televisions and we mention a manager of a certain formerly Woolwich based club in t...
Mar 04, 2014•1 hr 52 min
Instead of talking about losing to Dnipro and Norwich properly, Jack sang a song and Raj had a meltdown about people running around in the woods on The Walking Dead. No, really. We regrouped and actually had a decent discussion about the games, if you were maybe worried, but we'd rather have found a corner to gently sob and rock in. Joined by two Cardiff fans before this weekends game, we thanked them for Gareth Bale and checked in on Steven Caulker before getting all Paxman about their red shir...
Feb 25, 2014•1 hr 40 min
Laughing at Newcastle, laughing with Lego and coming at you with brand spanking new recording software, Rule The Roost has never been better*. Most unlike our guests this week, who both support Norwich. Fears of relegation, wanting to sack their manager and no real hope going in to a home game against us, they really put a perspective on how good we've got it. *Please note: Rule The Roost may have been better at some point in the past. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ruletheroost . ...
Feb 18, 2014•1 hr 9 min
Somehow, without us knowing how, we beat Everton. We do our best to make sense of it alongside Chris 'WindyCOYS' Miller, who made a lifelong dream come true by appearing on the show, apparently. Looking forward to Newcastle, Taylor of the Taylor And Besty podcast was back, this time bringing along Besty for the ride. We discussed our managers, our players and the game ahead...for some of the time. Other times we bonded over a mutual admiration for the hilarity of Fake Taxi on PornHub - under 18s...
Feb 10, 2014•1 hr 26 min
We didn’t record a Hull podcast, mainly because we didn’t want to. We’re not even sorry, to be honest. We’re back now though, brushing over two bad results in record time, literally doing our best not to delve in to the games past reading the scores out. Joined again by friends of the show and our favourite Everton fans going, Si and Bally from the NSNO Podcast are back on the line helping us discuss everything we possibly can, apart from the football. The usual tactical nonsense and higher-brow...
Feb 06, 2014•1 hr 9 min
With the Welsh conquered for a second time away this season, another away win is up for discussion in the shape of Swansea City. Much more pressingly though, with this being our 26th episode of the podcast, we took special time to discuss the legend that is Ledley King, and come close to tears as we remember the player that was and the man that is. Manchester City come to Tottenham next, and with that we welcomed back Rob from TypicalCity with open arms, this time accompanied by his mate and fel...
Jan 23, 2014•1 hr 41 min
Another win under Tim Sherwood to discuss, the lads look back to the Palace game, with special attention paid to poor old Jason Puncheon. Also discussed was Lewis Holtby's future, Nabil Bentaleb being the second coming and the possible passing of Capoue to Napoli. Then joined by Matt from Lost Boyos, this weekends game was firmly on the agenda. We talked Laudrup, Martinez and Rodgers, as well as players such as Bony, Caulker, Sigurdsson and Michu. Not to mention Gareth Bale's enormous, talent. I...
Jan 15, 2014•1 hr 30 min
Back after a prolonged break over Christmas and New Year, the good ship Rule The Roost rides again in to 2014, discussing everything we've missed during the holidays. Looking forward to the home game against Crystal Palace, we have Chris and Albert from Holmesdale Radio on to discuss the game and sending each other's mothers raunchy pictures of ourselves.Warning: This show includes and accidental plug of John Bostock's short lived gospel rap music career. It's not our fault if you're stupid enou...
Jan 08, 2014•1 hr 17 min
In our second episode in as many days, and quite possibly, although not entirely confirmed, last before the New Year, we responded to some Redknapp talk from feedback received regarding the Villas-Boas special. We also had a word on Sherwood and his first public interview since the announcement was made yesterday. There was also a short preview of West-Ham in the cup. Moving back to some form of Rule The Roost normality though, we spoke to Southampton fan and owner of the SaintsWeb, Steve Grant....
Dec 17, 2013•1 hr 19 min
A few hasty text messages later, it was decided that André Villas-Boas deserved his own dedicated show. After a season and a quarter at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur, the undeniably handsome manager was given his marching orders, leaving the majority of Spurs fans unsure what to make of it. In a roundtable of distinctly down and baffled fans, ESPN and Bleacher Report writer Dan Fitch and voice of the people Danny McAvoy joined hosts Jack and Raj to try and make sense of the days events. Waving a...
Dec 16, 2013•1 hr 2 min
Back in the hosting chair, Jack Hussey rejoined Raj Bains on this weeks show, making sure the audio equivalent of Ledley King (Bains) and Michael Dawson (Hussey) were back together again. They started by celebrating a good week for the club and three points against Sunderland, before turning their attention to Anji on Thursday and Liverpool on Sunday. With nobody in Dagestan willing to talk to us - we presume - we skipped ahead to Liverpool and spoke to Social Media godzilla Michael Sinnerton, w...
Dec 11, 2013•1 hr 9 min
Stepping in to the hosting chair in the absence of Tottenham's Keith Chegwin, Raj and the SpursStatMan himself Jack look back on the Fulham game and make sure to point out that they're 100% not the same person with some form of mental illness. Joined by Sunderland fan Gareth, of Wise Men Say Podcast, we preview the upcoming game at the Stadium Of Light and find out more about the Premier League's current soap opera side. New manager, new players, new internal structure, new dawn? We find out jus...
Dec 05, 2013•57 min
Kicking off a double-bill of episodes this week as we do our best to combat the Premier League fixture congestion, we try and put to bed the Manchester United result as emphatically as André Villas-Boas did the press agenda against him, which was also discussed. Russ Goldman from Cottage Talk Podcast was our Fulham fan of choice to join us as we collectively conducted a candle lit vigil for the legendary Martin Jol after his recent sacking, although Fulham actually had the good grace to wait unt...
Dec 02, 2013•1 hr 11 min
Huddled in a corner together crying and shaking we do our best to contextualise what losing 6-0 away to Manchester City really means, and how it changes things at the club, if at all. We also mention the victory away at Tromsø, confirming that we've comprehensively won our group in the Europa League. Dale O'Donnell from Stretty News is our Manchester United guest this week, and Jack and Raj do their best to sound up for another stern test in the league. What matters more, the result or the perfo...
Nov 29, 2013•1 hr 49 min
Putting the International break behind us and welcoming back club football with open arms, we turned our attention very quickly to the upcoming game away at the Etihad. Before that though, congratulations were in order for France captain Hugo Lloris, and we lent a shoulder to cry on for Sigurðsson, Chiricheș and the injured Christian Eriksen. Robert Pollard of TypicalCity fame was our guest as we got back in to the real groove of the show and discussed our opponents, taking special time out to a...
Nov 20, 2013•1 hr 34 min
Yet another International Break, yet another disappointing result leading in to it. Discussing what went wrong, and what could have gone better against Newcastle was first on the agenda as Tottenham's answer to Gervais and Merchant invited on two fellow Spurs fans on to the pod. Ben McAleer of WhoScored.com and Abbi Summers of Fanzone were on board a much more introverted episode as we discussed the talking points from inside the club at a much greater length and detail than usual, and answered ...
Nov 13, 2013•1 hr 15 min
A first penalty win since 1994 is celebrated as we beat Hull again within a week and dump them out of the League cup. Everton away is discussed and dissected, with Lloris' indestructible skull up for praise. Sheriff and the impact of the 1882 also have a hefty hat tipped toward them. Joined by Taylor Payne from True Faith Podcast, we discussed duck size horses vs horse sized ducks, goat related bestiality, robbery related defecation and the legend of smelly Bob, may god rest his soul. There was ...
Nov 07, 2013•1 hr 34 min
Discussing the eventual victory against Hull, addressing the atmosphere at White Hart Lane and previewing an unfortunate replay of the same game we've just suffered through, host's Jack and Raj breath a collective sigh of relief as they put Hull behind them. Joined by Si and Ballsy from NSNO.co.uk, we laughed and joked our way through an Everton preview. Deluded red rivals, Steven Pienaar and Roberto Malteaser were on all on the agenda, as was a legally questionable assessment of David Moyes' th...
Oct 30, 2013•1 hr 27 min
Simultaneously reviewing the Aston Villa win and previewing Sheriff in the Europa League and Hull in both the league and League Cup, we had a lot to get through this week. Alongside Matthew Rudd from Amber Nectar, we were brought up to speed on Hull City in their present guise, and found out why they're not happy with being called Tigers. Praise for Huddlestone and Livermore too, with nods toward Andros Townsend and the return of Emmanuel Adebayor. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ru...
Oct 23, 2013•1 hr 5 min
Keeping up to date with both our players involved in internationals and those training at home, we happily waved goodbye to the distraction from Tottenham and club football for the foreseeable future. Speaking to Sam Tighe from Bleacher Report, we discussed how Aston Villa and Tottenham went from being league rivals to poles apart despite being similar clubs in stature. Benteke, Lambert and tactics going in to the game were also points for discussion, and we definitely didn't refer to the game a...
Oct 16, 2013•56 min
Doing our best to draw the positives and digest the various negatives from the weekends loss to West-Ham, we drew a line under the game for good. Alongside SpursStatMan writer and blogger Ben Alfrey, we took advantage of yet another international break and did our best to evaluate and contextualise the season so far. Tactics, team selection, substitutions and more, we did our best to answer the various questions the season thus far has thrown at us. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/r...
Oct 09, 2013•1 hr 9 min
Another week, another London derby. After discussing the performance and result against Chelsea we previewed cup final week for West Ham fans with the upcoming fixture at White Hart Lane firmly in mind. Joined by Sean Whetstone, a blogger, podcaster and influential supporter of West Ham, we quizzed him on life under Big Sam, how they expect to fill the Olympic stadium, summer transfer dealings and their stumbling season thus far. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/ruletheroost . Hosted...
Oct 02, 2013•1 hr 7 min
