We done ’em.
But to listen to some of the natives we actually lost 1-2 and were relegated ourselves. I have listened to Arry and I have listened to the voices of discontent. I am one of those voices, to an extent. No sentient being likes being called an idiot. And as I hopefully made the point in my Gerald Ratner piece, Arry is sailing naffin’ close to the wind here.
He lacks many things but good grace has now emerged as something he wouldn’t recognise if it painted itself pink, leaped out of a birthday cake and singing ‘Good Grace Is Here Again’ to a full orchestral accompaniment. Clearly the hostile nature of The Lane is getting to him. Well if you can’t stand the heat…
And such is the advice I’d also give to those demanding his dismissal. Okay, he’s biting the hand that feeds, I get that. But so what? The man’s clearly a fool but if there’s a hanging to be had let’s hang him on his achievements or lack of them as a manager. Not on his inability to cope with being asked pretty straightforward questions by a bloke with a microphone.
I’m more concerned with his ability to put right the wrongs of the last window and sort out a goalie – if all faith in Gomes is lost, – a striker to partner Pav, and another defender to acknowledge that Woody is a gonner and Ledders is nothing more than an occasional treat.
The bottom line is that we have European football and I think some have lost sight of what that means. We mustn’t allow ourselves to degenerate into becoming part of those disagreeable Droogs that seem incapable of humor, of joy.
These Droogs, these low brow beasts expect us to win every game and for no one to ever make a mistake. Sure, when I see Jermaine J**** has been telling some poor hack that he’s determined to push on for a fourth place finish my first urge is remove his larynx with gardening trowel, but I don’t call time on my support for the whole shebang.
There is a expediency these days in football that would make the be-headings during the French Revolution appear considered. Carlo Ancelotti has been binned or binned by mutual consent at Second Hand Fridge. This is nothing shy of insane.
Clearly an intelligent man. A winner as both a player and as a manager. He oversaw a Cheatski side that had their number one goalscorer out with Malaria and their 20 goals a season midfield supremo out with injury and still finished second. The verdict? Not good enough, ‘Miss Jones might you be so kind as to send the next candidate in, thank you so much.’
No Champions League football is a disappointment but hardly plunges us into raging sea of ‘can’t cope without you’. Does it? Does it really? The positives of Arry’s reign appear to some to have been eclipsed by not only his daft comments but by his mistakes. Have they really?
Arry’s backed wrong horses. If any of you venture into a bookmakers, you will notice that most customers after placing their bets have no need to make a return trip to the counter to collect. Whilst we would expect him to have a higher success rate than your average punter, the point I make is that everybody makes mistakes.
Football management is no different to any other discipline and the fewer you make, the better you do.
Defoe has been a complete flop. 3 MP has been as useful as a puncture in a life-jacket. Yes I am aware of him single handed scoring that goal wot got us into the Champions League but I am equally aware of the other one he scored that confirmed we were out of it.
Arry has made mistakes, but getting to the quarter finals of the Champions League, a booking for another, if less glamorous European tour, if compounded by retaining the services of the Boy Bale and Modders cannot be judged as a disgrace.
Yes he needs to pull his finger out and buy in chaps for where we are light, yes he needs to wake up and realise that out of our existing strikers Pav is the only one worth retaining.
Arry has limited skill sets. He can’t communicate well with ‘non nationals’. Is telling Pav to run about a bit actually all that funny when you discover that it’s true? Trust me, he’s replace Modders with Scott Parker if he could get away with it. ‘Well at least you can talk to ‘im’ would be the line.
Instead of calling us idiots, he’d do well to listen before opening that seeping East End drain of a gob of his. Remember when he was about to bring Ghally on and suddenly thought better of it? Try a bit more of that Arold my old china. Crouch was verbally abused (I suspect he probably prefers a more hands on, mildly lubed approach) yesterday by a Client Reference number. Twice.
Pav scored a pair of Champions League quality goals and when he’s in the ground we sing his name.
Look, I’ve got to make some lunch. But what I’m saying is, the abuse on both sides is partly justified but let’s not lose sight of what we’ve got here and where we’re heading. And remember what a great man once said…
your seem to think it’s ok to slag of Harry for 90% of the piece.
what has got into you these days?
He’s a great manager- stop tearing into his personality continually. it’s pathetic.
100% spot on
toby….what is your definition of ‘a great manager’ 1 FA Cup and 2 lower league titles in 30 years of management?
How is he a great manager? He’s done well, better than many we’ve had, but great he ain’t.
He’s done a couple of things (CL & first win away at ‘top 4’ in nearly 70 attempts), that none of the other 45 managers we’d had in the last three weeks had done… So surely THAT much must be going for him?
If I can call you surely?
To be fair, with this squad a lobotomised chimp could have achieved that…
Coco Ramos, the famous Spanish lobotomised chimp had us at the foot of the table with virtually the same squad… So, err, unless I’m looking at it upside down I think that argument is pure hogwash.
Err..he also won a trophy (against top 4 team) which if I’m not mistaken is what it’s all about. If we carry on with bagpuss in charge we will all be looking at it upside down, he’s a specialist at relegation you know
The point wasn’t about Ramos winning the cup (fair play to him and god love him for it), but was about whether a lobotomised chimp could have taken Spurs to the 1/4 final of the CL and broken a 70 game losing streak away to ‘top 4’ opposition. The answer was ‘no’ as a ‘cup winning mastermind’ Juande Ramos had us so far adrift at the bottom of the EPL, even Tom Hanks wouldn’t have found us in his portaloo raft.
There is also a list as long as your arm running back to Bill Nick of managers who also failed in the task. Granted, the entry system has changed but HR can hardly be blamed for that can he – Although I’m sure Felching will try.
This ‘Anyone could have done it’ argument is such complete and utter tosh it makes a mockery of the word sham. It’s like saying that anyone could have won the US Open using Tiger Woods clubs, or anyone could win the Spanish GP using Sebastien Vettel’s car… Nonsense.
Give Schumacher Vettel’s car and watch him go….nonsense indeed…Watch Dos Santos play for Mexico, O’Hara for Wolves, Taarabt for QPR, KP Boateng for Ghana….A good Manager gets the best from his players, our current manager gets what he gives…Average, always was as a player and always will be as a manager
Please Hartley, stop it… Schumacher can’t even get ahead of Nico Rosberg in the same car. As for the other journeymen & show ponies you’ve espousing – Would you rather have KPB or Sandro? GIO or Modric? Taraabt or Bale? The ego’s of each of those players insisted that they be the first choice, so those were the decisions the manager had to make. Those players made their own decisions about where they wanted to play as they wouldn’t accept being squad players without either blabbing to the press or going on the ale.
For every goal you see Taraabt score there are 10 shots that go flying into row Z, while his histrionics and tantrums on the pitch mean that he’s hated by most of the other QPR players – Not something you want in your dressing room. KPB has done well for himself but again, has an ego the size of a house and wants to play his own game on the pitch regardless of the others… I’d rather have Sandro thank you. KPB was also pretty inefectual against us in the CL and 3 goals in 26 games for Milan isn’t the kind of thing that would put him ahead of say T’Hudd, Modders or VDV. O’Hara has found his level playing for relegation scrappers while probably the only one I feel sorry for out of that bunch of bad apples is Gio. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and couldn’t get his lifestyle under control. I wish him well.
This is the problem with most of the ‘anyone could do that’ argument… Most people couldn’t. If you ask 100 Spurs fans their best team they’d pick 100 different combinations. The one that did pick them got us to the CL, so give some respect for that.
Bloody hell astro, you don’t give in do you….There are many players that have issues so to speak but would you get rid of them all? I’m sure Paul Gascoigne took a bit of work, Jimmy Greaves as well, what about Georgie Best and Danny Blanchflower to name a few…and yes these are exceptional players but you seem to have this opinion that football players are or should be simply tools for the manager to use such as a set of golf clubs or a 1000bhp racing car….a good manager should be able to ‘manage’ these types and not take the easy optio, we don’t have a good manager so he just gives up and gets rid…
i believe ryan giggs will be looking to move to london so he can nearer his agents, don’t look to crouch for advice
brainless idiots eh Redknapp? sure..
and the biggest one is the manager.
People tear into his personality because he says the most idiotic and offensive things that you dont hear from most other managers.
Its all about the Harry show – constant propaganda about how lucky we are to have him.
He’s nowhere near the level of of achievement of Nicholson or even Burkinshaw – he hasnt actually won anything here unlike Ramos, but we should all be worshipping at his feet and eternal grateful for the time he gives us until he gets a better offer.
If he just got on and did his job, then admitted that we could have done better and intend to do so next year, I would be OK with him.
He has no loyalty or feeling for this club and his fans – why would he? – we are way down the pecking order of clubs he really has an affinity with – Arsenal, West Ham, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Southampton (most of whom wouldnt touch him with a bargepole – or of course Chelsea (in his dreams).
“He has no loyalty or feeling for this club and his fans – why would he? – we are way down the pecking order of clubs he really has an affinity with”
Sorry, how do you know this? Are you a regular dinner guest at chez Redknapp? Is there a biography I missed?
Nonsense.
I am seriously concerned about HR’s ability to cope with the distraction of his court case in preseason and the England carrot being dangled in front of him – I also worry that Levy sees this and will not invest heavily in rebuilding, with it all being subsidised by sales.
Also the branding of us as idiots for believing we are better than 5th place is truly staggering – The run after Milan was unacceptable (until the Liverpool game), and any clubs fans would agree with that – I feel that his comments have run the club down, have not left the club in a good light and DL needs to have a word about his disrespect towards the fans and his portrayal of THFC. Gallas was right when he said that we were not good enough this season, and that is from a man who knows what it is like to win major prizes – unlike HR – so is he an idiot too?