Good morning ladies.
After that load of old cockerels I could do with some good news. You know, like hearing Levy & Co. have agreed a compensation figure with the FA and the cheque is in the post.
I wonder if old Arry actually knows what managing Engerland would actually be like?
“They’ve got to be more patient. They get carried away with the crowd at times and started playing from back to front to quick.
We’re a footballing team that plays and people have got to be patient. They can’t worry about the crowd being inpatient because we had lots of passes.”
England fans are unlike club supporters. The flag waving and endless honks of The Italian Job theme tune belie a ruthless need for the constant beating of Johnny Foreigner. Their support is Faustian. A Liverpool supporter will cheer Wayne Rooney but only if England are winning. That’s the deal right there and that’s why the the last half dozen or so incumbents of the Engerland hot seat are still in receipt of psychiatric care.
But Arry lives in dream world. In his head it’s the swinging sixties; Bobby Moore is still on the telly ordering a cheeky half Watney’s Red Barrel and Sandra’s doing liver and onions after she’s run an iron over his Fifty Shilling Tailor suit. ‘Come on England! Come On England!’ The man’s a fool.
Look at Sunderland. A veritable, ‘Underachievers R Us’ under poor and old but lovable Steve Bruce. A gang of second string players and journeymen. Yet under the auspices of Martin O’Neil they moved up the table like a ferret up a particularly enticing trouser leg.
Have Spurs achieved all that they have under Arry despite him? I wish it were that simple. There’s your headline, ‘Harry’s A Conman!’ and goodnight Gracie. But he’s not. He is as I have maintained since he arrived, an excellent crisis manager. Cynics and wannabe stand up comedians might argue that this is true as he normally manages to leave clubs in a state of crisis, boom boom.
He started off brilliantly. No two ways about it. But you’ve got to be less open minded than your average extreme Muslim cleric if you haven’t noticed we’ve gone right off the boil. Arsenal are having one of their worst seasons in years and they’ve just overtaken us in the league. Not because they are on fire, but because we’re falling apart at the seams.
I’d be happy for him to stay (which is incredibly gracious of me) but only if he’s prepared to demonstrate an interest in managing the team. Since his, ‘Not Guilty’ his only contribution to THFC has been to irritate everyone by failing to remotely coach the side, make an endless stream of ‘fascinating’ comments about the England job and snatch at any opportunity to deflect blame from himself.
6.828 Hornby have announced this morning that the prototype of the track trialed on Brad will not be released for general sale as simply going up and down one line won’t be popular.
7.010 Had some quality moments. I wish Bale took over more once he hits the halfway line and I wish defensively he gave players less time and space.
7. 111 A nice game. Love him going forward and I hear the attempted manslaughter charges have been dropped by the Stoke bloke he hit with the ball.
0.003 He survived an assassination attempt earlier in the week. Apparently the bullet went though his head narrowly missing his brain by 3 feet.
4.321 At this rate he couldn’t win the Egg & Spoon race in the under 9’s category. I’d love him to be rested for a few weeks and treated with some respect.
6.578 Someone was going to get the bullet to accommodate the it Midget Gem and it was Krankie. I thought he did alright, but the right wing is no place for him.
7.122 Some insightful passing and some Championship stuff mixed in for good measure. I bet he was being coached right a guy like him could learn to take corners.
7.121 He’s being run into the ground every game and by the time the second half arrives he’s done in. Another one that needs managing to give him focus.
7.008 What goes on in that boy’s head? That cross to vdV was breathtaking. He made one or two others from the left that were borderline breathtaking. His play everywhere else was, ‘okay’.
6.007 A prime example of what happens to players who fall out with Arry. I wonder how good Gomes is these days, or Bentley is worth playing? Sorry I forgot, we must not question the master.
7.009 Coaching again. His corners were improved a little , but it’s unacceptable that a player at this level skying most of his dead balls into row K.
4.000 Looked bright for the first 15 minutes. Our glorious leader then waited how long before taking him off?
3.000 When he scores in a moment of individual brilliance I sing his name like I’m offering up a prayer. If he doesn’t score in a moment of individual brilliance I want to kill him.
I have added this to the last HH Blog so apologies if you read it twice……
Any Premier League manager must watch us and think if we are playing at WHL just play 5 across the midfield and thats a point in the bag at least. We are clueless at how to break these teams down.
Also if we get a free kick or corner I think we could just save energy, throw the ball to the keeper, tell him to hold onto it for 30 seconds and then start with a goal kick.
It would save us all having the pain and anguish of believeing something might happen only to watch the ball crash into the first defender, miss everyone and go off for a goal kick at the back post or fly 20yrds over the goal.
Don’t apologise. You’re right. There is no coaching taking place whatsoever.
Set pieces are only of interest to the players that fancy getting a goal (ie free kicks in range) and then there’s a dignified bun fight over who gets to do a Zokora and get the pigeons off the Paxton roof.
Rafa’s attempted free kick on goal from just outside the box in the second half was nothing short of farcical. Id have been strung up when I played sunday football for that.
Its astonishing that at this level not one of our players seems to have a clue where the ball will end up from a delivered cross or corner, including the taker!
I think you’re all correct. 100% no coaching, from free kick and corners, and no leadership.
And Rafa’s just about the best of the bunch!
The players in the past few weeks have looked void of energy, and any kind of zip. These players, 14 of them have been used consistently by Redknapp. There is/was no reason why they weren’t rested, or just basically rotated in. Bale, Van der Vaart, Parker and Modric could all have been rested on many occasions, or come off the bench. Allowing the squad players to develop. The reason Sandro is in the picture was because of an injury, the same for Livermore, and Rose. Now the likes of Kranjcar don’t play unless of an injury.
I’ve been calling for a rotation system to be implemented. ManUre use, and it allows for players to properly rest and to not suffer burn out.
If Spurs do not secure 3rd place then the coaching staff have themselves to blame.
Add in the simple fact, Spurs are atrocious at set pieces. Whether attacking or defending, they are bad. Against Stoke they were in the teens with corners and at least HALF of them did not make it past the first defender
Another truth. Well said. Parker and Modric have been run into the floor boards all season. And I see Parker being called a ‘headless chicken’ by some. He’s not headless, he’s just shagged!
Livermore like Krankie is also only brought in as a filler for an injury. Footballers are mentally feeble creatures we are told daily, so why not turn around to Jake and say, ‘hey, I’m giving you so and so’s shirt on Saturday, show me what you can do, son’?
As you rightly say Man Ure do this and you can imagine Fergie giving the lads the old, ‘I think you’re ready for the shirt son’ chat…
Opposed to some Bow Locks about what the scores are… Arry’s a fuckwit.
why not get rid of twitchy if thats all he can say at half time. why not get the players to log on to bbc sport at half time and just get rid of him .
I sort of agree, but for an entirely different reason. Is it fair to say that anyone who’s sole attribute is man-management, the old arm-around-the shoulder philosophy, that players respond to and buy into, suddenly becomes distant and so distracted to a point that the same players are now wondering what they’ve bought into and where they’re own future now lies, whether it be conscious or not. I’m of the opinion that the lack of communication is down to Levy not showing his hand and increasing the compensation, but it is at the same time causing consternation throughout the club right now.
I’d be fascinated to know if the FA have contacted anyone (apart from Slur Alex of course) yet. Arry’s stock must be sinking like a stone…
Thing is H,who else could they approach, if as suggested they want English candidates? Pearce and perhaps Hodgson, although why no-ones put Curbishley’s name in the frame is a mystery as Pardew has already said ‘No Ta Muchly’
Here are the facts:
Mid – Feb ten points clear of Arsenal, with the chance to do irreprable damage to them – 2 nil up and doing ok (as the home side, they were always gonna create chances)….
Now, 22nd March, the Arse are ahead of us and the Chavs are right behind us….
Any manager worth his salt would not have let this collapse happen – we have an excellent squad and to see our traditional collapse against Man U, and the first half against Everton were a disgrace….we were lucky against Stevenage for God’s sake…
Martin Jol, lost his job because he could ‘close the deal’ ….. Ramos anyone?
The fact that Chelsea are mounting a comeback under the management of di Matteo and John Terry and that the Arsenal players have obviously had a long hard look at themselves speaks volumes.
We by some stark contrast are ‘experimenting’ with Bale’s insane ‘Ronaldo’ vision and all we seem to be practising in training is talking to the press.
…. that should say ‘couldn’t ‘ regarding MJ…
Does anyone think it a little strange that Redflapps half time chat centered around lying to the team and telling them that both blue scum and red scum were winning. Surely, a decent manager would be saying ” It doesn’t matter what other teams are doing, we just need to go out and concentrate on our own game” I can’t imagine Fergie or Wanker would worry about what other teams are doing.