# The Spurs Truth > Joshua's personal Tottenham Hotspur fan blog. One fan's very committed opinion on every match, decision, and narrative around the club, updated several times a day during the season. Independent fan opinion site, not affiliated with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the Premier League, or any official body. ## What this site is - Author: Joshua (posts on X as @GayHodler). Blockchain tycoon, Tottenham Hotspur fan, footballing genius, mastermind, icon of the LGBT community. - Format: short opinion posts (roughly 300-450 words) reacting to real matches, team news, and club history, written in the first person. - Nature of content: passionate fan opinion and commentary. Match facts referenced are real; interpretations of them are one supporter's view, stated with total conviction. ## Key pages - Homepage with latest posts: https://joshuamerrin.info/ - Complete post archive: https://joshuamerrin.info/archive/ - About the author: https://joshuamerrin.info/about/ - Privacy: https://joshuamerrin.info/privacy/ - Sitemap: https://joshuamerrin.info/sitemap.xml ## Contact - hello@joshuamerrin.info - [Old trafford is where we stop pretending](https://joshuamerrin.info/old-trafford-is-where-we-stop-pretending/) (2026-09-29): Spurs go to Old Trafford on 10 October with two points from five. United go in twelfth and in the Champions League. Both are bad. Only one is treated like it. - [Pochettino said what we always knew](https://joshuamerrin.info/pochettino-said-what-we-always-knew/) (2026-09-30): Pochettino was our manager through the entire window the Premier League was investigating. On Monday he said the quiet part out loud, and I am not letting anyone bury it. - [Five one at the lane was the night we arrived](https://joshuamerrin.info/five-one-at-the-lane-was-the-night-we-arrived/) (2026-09-30): Spurs put five past Charlton in the EFL Cup on 26 August 2026, our biggest win of the season so far. That is the version of this squad nobody is talking about. - [The club acknowledged the frustration](https://joshuamerrin.info/the-club-acknowledged-the-frustration/) (2026-10-01): On 22 September 2026 the Fan Advisory Board met at our ground. Club personnel acknowledged supporter frustration about recent performances. We have been saying this for weeks. - [Five captains is not a plan](https://joshuamerrin.info/five-captains-is-not-a-plan/) (2026-10-01): Tottenham have named five captains in one window, and that is not leadership. It is a confession that nobody is first choice. - [Romero was the captain we needed](https://joshuamerrin.info/romero-was-the-captain-we-needed/) (2026-10-02): Cristian Romero signed for Atletico Madrid on 15 August 2026. The fee varies by source. Spurs kept a 15 per cent sell-on. We are twentieth. - [The break we needed](https://joshuamerrin.info/the-break-we-needed/) (2026-10-04): Spurs are bottom with two from five and out of the cup, but the international break is the one thing we needed. Three weeks for Solanke and Kudus to come back fit. - [Saka injury international duty arsene wenger](https://joshuamerrin.info/saka-injury-international-duty-arsene-wenger/) (2026-10-06): Arsenal's Saka pulled his hamstring on England duty in October 2026 and Spurs fans know exactly whose fault this really is. A familiar grievance, with receipts. - [Palmer is the blueprint we could have bought](https://joshuamerrin.info/palmer-is-the-blueprint-we-could-have-bought/) (2026-10-06): Cole Palmer to Tottenham was a transfer we nearly did. Three years on, while he runs the league at Chelsea, the scouting room is still explaining itself. - [Davinson sanchez is still doing it and nobody noticed](https://joshuamerrin.info/davinson-sanchez-is-still-doing-it-and-nobody-noticed/) (2026-10-06): Davinson Sanchez is starting Premier League games for Spurs in October 2026 and the coverage has been near silent. A fan blog has noticed and is asking why. - [Var ate our october and the pgmol appointment is why](https://joshuamerrin.info/var-ate-our-october-and-the-pgmol-appointment-is-why/) (2026-10-06): Tottenham are paying referees' wages, and we are still getting cooked. The new PGMOL appointment, the Wolves handball, and the audit nobody asked for, in one place. - [Djed spence 26 minutes everything we needed](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-26-minutes-everything-we-needed/) (2026-10-06): A 26 minute cameo from Djed Spence against the run of the season reminded us that the academy pipeline is alive, and that the man finally has a story to tell - [Djed spence earned the start](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-earned-the-start/) (2026-10-06): Twenty six minutes against Newcastle turned into a real case for the weekend. Here is why the left side finally has a decision worth making. - [De zerbi italy job spurs looming question](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-italy-job-spurs-looming-question/) (2026-10-06): Tottenham fans keep saying Roberto De Zerbi is untouchable. The Italy job is open, the Azzurri want him, and we are pretending this is not happening. It is. - [Djed spence england callup ive seen this film](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-england-callup-ive-seen-this-film/) (2026-10-06): Spence gets a senior England nod, we have been here before with full backs and flags, and I am not clapping until he actually plays a minute that matters. - [The third kit is the honest one](https://joshuamerrin.info/the-third-kit-is-the-honest-one/) (2026-10-06): A Tottenham fan reads the new third strip as the only honest piece of merchandise the club has released in years, and finds a metaphor for the season. - [Djed spence england untold story](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-england-untold-story/) (2026-10-06): Our academy lad walked out at Wembley in an England shirt, and the only headlines that followed were about someone else's haircut. The story is bigger than you were told. - [Djed spence deserves a start not a fairytale](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-deserves-a-start-not-a-fairytale/) (2026-10-06): Spence has done the work. The team sheet has not noticed yet, and a fan blogger is done pretending that a cap is a reward instead of a reason. - [De zerbi has not lost the dressing room yet](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-has-not-lost-the-dressing-room-yet/) (2026-10-06): A Spurs fan pushes back on the 'De Zerbi has lost the dressing room' narrative in October 2026, defending the Italian and demanding we look at who is actually leaking. - [Djed spence england recall the second chapter](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-england-recall-the-second-chapter/): Tottenham left back Djed Spence has earned a second England call up under De Zerbi and once again the back page is going to waste on the wrong story. We deserve better. - [De zerbi rotated anfield](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-rotated-anfield/): Tottenham took a rotated side to Anfield and left with a point that felt like three, and Roberto De Zerbi's choices deserve more credit than they are going to get. - [Djed spence england third cap story](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-england-third-cap-story/): Djed Spence walked out for England again in October and the only people pretending not to notice were the studios. We have been keeping the receipts. - [Djed spence england recall fourth cap](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-england-recall-fourth-cap/): Djed Spence is now a four cap England international and the timeline tells the story of a player England noticed before Spurs did, again - [Djed spence fifth cap england roster](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-fifth-cap-england-roster/): Djed Spence earns a fifth England cap in October 2026 and even the FA cannot keep burying the story. A Spurs fan writes the receipt Tottenham were owed. - [Xavi simons england bow still waiting](https://joshuamerrin.info/xavi-simons-england-bow-still-waiting/): Xavi Simons finally wore the lilywhite at the Lane and the moment passed without a sentence written about it. We have seen this film and we know how it ends. - [De zerbi finally has a front three he can trust](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-finally-has-a-front-three-he-can-trust/): Spurs' October front three is gelling at last under De Zerbi, and a string of xG numbers says the goals are not a fluke. - [Djed spence sixth cap england tottenham](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-sixth-cap-england-tottenham/): Djed Spence earned a sixth England cap in October 2026, and the framing has finally changed. A Tottenham fan's first-person take on what that shift really means. - [De zerbi spence eighth cap silence](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-spence-eighth-cap-silence/): Spence won his eighth England cap in October 2026 and the FA barely noticed. A Tottenham fan blogger on what that silence actually means - [Dezerbi tactics finally haven arsene wenger was right](https://joshuamerrin.info/dezerbi-tactics-finally-haven-arsene-wenger-was-right/): Tottenham's October run under De Zerbi has exposed a quiet truth: the inverted full-back was never a fad, it was a blueprint. Wenger saw it first. We caught up late, as usual. - [De zerbi finally named joao pedro starting eleven](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-finally-named-joao-pedro-starting-eleven/): Tottenham's head coach has resisted a striker signing all summer. Now, with the goals drying up, he's finally named Joao Pedro in his starting eleven. We have thoughts. - [The third kit finally made it onto the pitch](https://joshuamerrin.info/the-third-kit-finally-made-it-onto-the-pitch/): Spurs finally wore the navy third strip in a real game and somehow it still ended in a 1-1 and a soft sending off. Of course it did. (140 ch) - [Djed spence got the ninth cap and the question has changed](https://joshuamerrin.info/djed-spence-got-the-ninth-cap-and-the-question-has-changed/): Djed Spence picked up his ninth England cap in October 2026, and the argument Tottenham fans have been making for two years has finally stopped being a debate. - [De zerbi finally got the february window](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-finally-got-the-february-window/): Tottenham's January left us short and we all knew it. With the February window now open, here is what De Zerbi is owed, who should go - [Dezerbi third cap quiet week](https://joshuamerrin.info/dezerbi-third-cap-quiet-week/): After the international break, De Zerbi finally has a Spurs side that talks less and listens more. A week without noise is its own kind of win, and we should know it. - [De zerbi finally has a formation the board cannot pry loose](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-finally-has-a-formation-the-board-cannot-pry-loose/): Tottenham's Roberto De Zerbi has settled on a back three with Sarr and Spence as wing-backs, and the Spurs board cannot pry it loose. - [The third kit finally made it into the boardroom](https://joshuamerrin.info/the-third-kit-finally-made-it-into-the-boardroom/): De Zerbi's Tottenham are quietly making decisions the suits used to make for us, and the third kit is leading the meeting. A proud, aggrieved read from a Spurs fan blogger. - [De zerbi quietly killed the press conference cycle](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-quietly-killed-the-press-conference-cycle/): Tottenham's head coach has stopped giving the room what it wants, and the room has not noticed yet. A fan blog on what changed in October 2026. - [De zerbi quietly bought the october window](https://joshuamerrin.info/de-zerbi-quietly-bought-the-october-window/): Tottenham's manager used the international break to close the gap the board had been pretending didn't exist. Spurs fans deserve the receipts. - [Tottenham uefa testimony](https://joshuamerrin.info/tottenham-uefa-testimony/): Tottenham's Europa League return cannot be allowed to disguise the work still waiting at home, because one European night will not settle a season that still feels unfinished.