Tottenham’s Cathinka Tandberg has bold dreams for women’s team regardless of men’s plight
Cathinka Tandberg is cheerfully examining the racks of Tottenham Hotspur’s official club shop. The 21-year-old striker admires a sweatshirt and sweatpants, a plush white bathrobe emblazoned with the cockerel crest, making a point to extol its supple texture. As far as club content goes, this is easy money.
Then Tandberg, who joined Spurs last summer from Swedish side Hammarby, catches a glimpse of the keychains, specifically the one bearing the Champions League logo. The Norway international gambols in that direction, beckoning the camera into her orbit. “This,” she whispers, “is what we’ll be playing in next season.
” There’s a 100 per cent chance that you’ve never seen this clip. “It’s him that says no! ” Tandberg laughs, pointing to the media officer sitting behind us in the dugout at Spurs’ training ground four days before Spurs host Manchester United in the Women’s Super League (WSL).
She knows the filtering is not from a place of personality policing, so much as protection. The internet is forever, and there is a particular titillation that accompanies a Tottenham Hotspur player publicly making bold claims about the future. Not that any of that has stopped Tandberg.
In fact, she has been making such claims since September, after she lobbed Everton goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan from the halfway line to help secure Spurs’ second win of the season, declaring live on the BBC that Spurs were Champions League contenders and she intended on being the best striker in the world. At that point, Spurs had only played Everton and West Ham (both of whom spent dalliances on the table’s bottom this season). Since Liverpool’s 2014 WSL title victory, a combination of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City have finished in the top three every season barring two, when Manchester United claimed second and third in the 2022-23 and 2024-25 seasons respectively.
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