Ally Gold

[Tiffers]

I do watch his videos but fast forward every so often when he starts going over ground he’s already covered. I much prefer reading his articles which are always informative. He’s a good guy

 

[dtxspurs]

I've genuinely got no idea why anybody wouldn't like him.
He's a fellow spurs fan who clearly cares about the club. But more importantly I think he seems like an absolutely sound bloke. Not big-headed, no ego or self importance. Just seems like a regular guy doing a job we'd all love.

Good for him.

The disdain for almost every pundit/reporter blows my mind

 

[SpursSince1980]

He's a top guy and a great listen. Yes he rambles a bit and he needs to stop correcting himself or taking the pee out of himself for tiny mistakes, but he talks how most of us would hope a Spurs fan would talk. He's grounded, knowledgeable and totally gets the current mood of the fanbase. Really felt for him during the managerial debacle, trying to get any kind of solid footing on what was happening. His poor family

I listen to his videos while doing something else and they're generally good - he isn't one of these fame chasers like Cowlin, Windy or the WeAreTottenhamTV lot - there's nothing false about his approach, he doesn't put on a fake presenting voice, and he doesn't have a silly studio or unnecessary graphics etc, but it's his articles from years ago which got me to join SC. I found them through the old newsnow links to the club before we really had ITK or anything much beyond Teletext! I still remember his sleeping giant articles from the Jol era which made me finally feel good about Spurs after so many years.

Long may he continue and hopefully he might find time to pop on here once in a while - feels like SC is his spiritual home.

I actually think his self-effacing comments are authentic and endearing. To me, at least, makes him also really relatable. I get the sense he doesn’t like being in front of the camera. So, those little things he says, mocking himself, I think is reflexively a self calming mechanism.

It’s nice that he’s not got some super slick thing going on. You are totally right about him just speaking normally, without affectations. He’s a good dude.

 

[thePessimist]

Top bloke but that site football.london is a nightmare with adds. Impossible to read through a full article

 

[Spurslove]

The disdain for almost every pundit/reporter blows my mind

Absolutely. How any Spurs fan can say they don't like Ally Gold is beyond my understanding.
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[Spurslove]

Top bloke but that site football.london is a nightmare with adds. Impossible to read through a full article

Yes, 100%. Those adverts are completely ridiculous and highly intrusive. I'm sure it's not the purpose of an ad to piss you off, but that's exactly what they do for me. I know they pay for the site, but they don't pay the poor bastard who's got to try and ignore them.
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[sausage]

Top bloke but that site football.london is a nightmare with adds. Impossible to read through a full article

I use opera, which blocks them by default, so haven't noticed this

 

[Spurslove]

I use opera, which blocks them by default, so haven't noticed this

Opera? I presume that's an ad-blocker thing. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get it and how much (also, it is compatible for an Apple Mini-Mac)?
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[Dov67]

No bullshit, no cliches, no click bait, just good reasoned and balanced opinion. Love his YouTube vids, in fact look forward to them

 

[philll]

no click bait

I'd definitely challenge that. He might be forced to do it as part of his job to drive traffic to football.london but clickbait is absolutely part of his arsenal repertoire. He wrote an entire article about "what Tanguy did at training" - the revelation was that he smiled.

 

[Dougal]

I'd definitely challenge that. He might be forced to do it as part of his job to drive traffic to football.london but clickbait is absolutely part of his arsenal repertoire. He wrote an entire article about "what Tanguy did at training" - the revelation was that he smiled.

You got the link? I’d love to read that.

 

[philll]

You got the link? I’d love to read that.

The only football.london article I can find in my browser history that looks even a bit relevant is this one, which might mean I've misremembered exactly what Tanguy did. The tweet that linked to the article had a "you'll never guess what Tanguy did" vibe to it, which I maintain is clickbait-y as all get out.

This isn't a slight against Alasdair, I think he's great, I was just contesting the "no clickbait" bit. It could just be part of the process of trying to condense articles/headlines down to suitable lengths for Twitter but a number of times I've clicked through on his tweets to read the linked football.london article because something in the tweet piqued my interest and ended up thinking "ffs Ally... really?".

Edit - this is the article. "...what Tanguy Ndombele did after win" (I'm ignoring the first part of the headline because we'd just sacked Mourinho and these were the halcyon days where we were looking forward to Nagelsmann)...

Even Tanguy Ndombele, who had not had the greatest of matches himself, was nevertheless in a fine mood after the victory. He jogged in trademark forward leaning style in front of the press area, long after the final whistle, and on his way back to get something from the dressing room he grinned up at the remaining journalists, waving away to all of them.

 

[Metalhead]

Absolutely. How any Spurs fan can say they don't like Ally Gold is beyond my understanding.
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I think that he's dishy.

 

[Dougal]

The only football.london article I can find in my browser history that looks even a bit relevant is this one, which might mean I've misremembered exactly what Tanguy did. The tweet that linked to the article had a "you'll never guess what Tanguy did" vibe to it, which I maintain is clickbait-y as all get out.

This isn't a slight against Alasdair, I think he's great, I was just contesting the "no clickbait" bit. It could just be part of the process of trying to condense articles/headlines down to suitable lengths for Twitter but a number of times I've clicked through on his tweets to read the linked football.london article because something in the tweet piqued my interest and ended up thinking "ffs Ally... really?".

Edit - this is the article. "...what Tanguy Ndombele did after win" (I'm ignoring the first part of the headline because we'd just sacked Mourinho and these were the halcyon days where we were looking forward to Nagelsmann)...

What did you think Tanguy did at training?

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

What did you think Tanguy did at training?

 

[wizgell]

Ally used to be a member on here, so he may well still lurk? I remember years ago when I was aiming for a career in journalism, I did some writing for a site he had set up called An Echo of Glory.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

He’s a good guy and puts in so much effort and is so passionate about Spurs but my god his YouTube videos are boring and way too long.

6 disagrees, 6 people who like spending their time listening to 1hr of Ali Gold's snorefest on Youtube lol fair play to the lot of you.

I like Ali Gold, think he's a top guy and does a really great job and he's good on podcasts but his Youtube channel videos are too long imo.

 

[Amo]

He’s a good guy and puts in so much effort and is so passionate about Spurs but my god his YouTube videos are boring and way too long.

Watch at ×2 speed.

 

[Meercat]

Opera? I presume that's an ad-blocker thing. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get it and how much (also, it is compatible for an Apple Mini-Mac)?
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Opera is a browser like safari and chrome - it’s pretty good, and yeah there’s a mac version.

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

I'd definitely challenge that. He might be forced to do it as part of his job to drive traffic to football.london but clickbait is absolutely part of his arsenal repertoire. He wrote an entire article about "what Tanguy did at training" - the revelation was that he smiled.

Yeah 100% — FL is owned by Reach (Mirror, Express, all those other regional sites) so it’s absolutely their forte. Works, though. Find him in particular very engaging and there’s a load of audience/fan interaction.