We hear that Timothy Sherwood is being groomed for greatness, gawdelpus. We hear that Pleaty is returned to the fold. All of this would carry far less weight if our beloved Arry wasn’t a) being openly courted by the media for the England manager’s job and b) off to court shortly with a question mark over a custodial sentence hanging over his loaf.
This got me thinking about who ought be the next man for the job. I tend to develop narcolepsy when well meaning folk start shouting out ‘Mourinho!’ or ‘Ancelotti!’ like the have twisted strain of Tourettes Syndrome. Despite a significant groundswell of contempt aimed at Citizen Aitch, he has statistically his win % makes him the most successful manager in 35 years.
The debate for who ought to be the next England manager is dominated by the demand that the new man be English, yet the two big shouts for Arry’s successor aren’t even British. I bet they don’t even know how to play Pooh Sticks, by Jiggins.
I could have deliberately trimmed the sample managerial period to be examined for a number of reasons but opted for to run from the first man to manage in my period of support to today. So we start at Burkinshaw.
The statistics of Tottenham managers vary wildly from source to source. At the risk of losing the will to live constructing some class of mean average figure from all the numbers out there, again I took the easy route and simply used those in Uncle Norman’s The Managing Game.
Arry Redschapps 48.68
Glenda Hoddle 48.00
Matrin Jol 44.96
So why shouldn’t we appoint Hoddle? The negatives are obvious enough I guess. Eileen Drewery’s name will be in the mix. Glena’s passes routinely found their target, but the old boy seem to have increasingly lost his mind to the evangelical hokum of a Berkshire housewife. The mulleted one violently hit the button marked ‘Career Eject’ with his forehead when he announced that disabled people were paying the price for misdeeds in a previous life.
But he was head and shoulders above so many others. Admittedly some of those others were Ardilles and Santini, but the list includes Burkinshaw, Venables and Shreeve who all had win percentages over 40.
I feel that Glenda has grown up since his faith healing days. Not knowing the man personally I won’t try and kid you he is a born again human being: but my feeling is that he has certainly at the very least learned to keep his cuckoo religious views very separate to his public.
So that’s the case for Godlite Hod.
Ancelloti seems to be fvorite not sure how the players would be with that. Tim Sherwood please..Dinosaur Kerb Crawler Pleat.. give over. lets spend 400 mil on a new stadium and get Harry Hill to manage the team.I am not sure Harry will be going to jail or the FA myself.
Is Alan Shearer a C U N T
Where is the question mark?
That’s because there is no question about it.
Any player who can twice ignore the riches and glory of Man Utd and sign for his boyhood club, will never be a anything but a hero in my eyes!
My personal hero outside of Spurs is Niall Quinn.
Two events spring to mind. When his testimonial was held, he donated all the money to childrens charities.
When a group of fans were denied boarding by Ryanair, he paid for taxis to take them from Cardiff to Sunderland.
IMHO, a wonderful example to both players and chairmen alike.
Yes indeed, he’s a top bloke, really personable and shows a great commitment to his cause, but didn’t Roy Keane do the same with his testimonial money? On that note I recall Tim Sherwood donating a huge amount to the 911 fund, but I guess only bad news is newsworthy.
I’m not aware of the Keane/Sherwood donations, but if that’s the case, more power to them.
This is not a put down about them, but for most footballers today, it’s hardly as if they need another million. Compare that to the antics of Rooney, Tevez and our own Modric, and it does nothing in my mind to raise my opinions of most footballers.
I also recall that when Tarrico was told that he was finished by injury, he tore up his contract rather than take the money that he was clearly entitled too. It is notable that Pikeys were only too keen to accept his offer.
Ancelotti with Ray Wilkins! Sherwood to keep bringing on the young’uns. Second choice, Moyes.
I think if Hoddle had been left to do his job he wouldn have taken us to Champions Legaue. Remember he wanted to sign e’to when he was at Real Mallorca but Pleat blocked it. It was the big heads of Sherringham and Sherwood that screwed up that side together with the back office. If Hoddle was able to run the team as Redknapp is he would be a success and is still young enough to be around for a number of years. Spurs man through and through in my opinion.
So signing the likes of Richards (record fee), Poyet, Sheringham,Bungy,and that other Eastern European twat whose names escapes were the marks of a good manager? I agree having Peat around was a bad idea, but it was a bad idea having him around when Graham was boss and it’ll be a worse idea having him around today. Hoddle was a bad manager, great player, but shockingly poor as Spurs boss, let the player remain an all time great in our mind and move on-please!
@epochery
I can agree with your final sentence but not much else. If that were true, the same could have been said about Gross, Francis and Graham.
I think the turning point for us was the recruitment of Frank Arnesen, who was responsible for bringing in MJ.
Actually the turning point was when we started spending money and spending it on quality. HOddle brought in some experienced players such as Sherringham, Ziege and Poyet that improved the team. Yes he also brought in Postiga, Bunje and a few others. Frank Arneson was no great judge oif a player he brought in a bucklet load of players most of which barely hung around. The turning point was bringing in young english players such as Defoe, Dawson, Huddlestone etc. That was more of a business decision than a manager decsion as Levy had spent a lot of moneu on players the wrong side of 28. Dean Richards was a good player for the position we were in at the time and you might recall some of the players we were signing at the time and continued to sign were the ilk of whonm would be playing for fulham, stoke, sunderland etc of today. Which is where we were.
I reiterate that had Hoddle the players of today at his disposal he would at least match the results of the current taem and would have us playing some bloody nice football too.
Obviously it’s a case of subjective history, but in his only season here, we were 5th, narrowly missing out on CL because of Lasagnagate. Since then, apart from the seasons that Oneday was involved in, we have fourth or fifth every year.
Prior to that, we were frequently waiting until April to know that we had avoided relegation.