Good morning.
Difficult to know quite how to approach this. I can’t even fake incredulity over a season that was such a joy that has turned into, well …an ingrowing toenail.
The soundtrack to the build up of the game itself wasn’t so much the cheery humming of Chas & Dave, more Arry making a series of backhanded confessions about his frankly unforgivable behaviour.
He admitted that Levy & Co. plus others at the club thought he had been distracted by the England business. A backhanded way of acknowledging many of us want to kill him for abandoning us. He told the Independent that he hadn’t got it because he was too outspoken. A backhanded confession he has a mouth approximately 2437 times larger than his brain.
Trawling through Arry’s post match comments since Fabio resigned and the singular theme that has emerged is the one of ‘luck’. Luck has conspired against us. We were ‘unlucky’. We ‘battered’ ’em yet just didn’t get ‘the break’.
Now don’t get me wrong. I can understand when at the fun fair you chuck a ball at a coconut and miss. Bad luck! But to wheel out the absence of a rabbit’s foot, the fact that you forgot to throw salt over your shoulder whilst wearing lucky pants whilst reciting the Lord’s Prayer backwards after a dozen games doesn’t stack up.
The saddest thing is watching our cracking squad being mismanaged by a dithering, deceitful and demented Pearly King with a button eating disorder.
Walker is now our free kick specialist, right winger and occasional right back.
On Danny Rose, he’s thick, for sure, but far from the villain in of the piece. Those that Tweeted abuse at him ought wind it in. There has to be line drawn between letting off steam online and what you say and do in real life. I don’t go to games and boo. I go to scream, sing (after a fashion) and shout the lads on.
And on this subject. Will those of you with such a huge hole in your lives that feel the urge to try and police what people type online …kindly naff off? You’re holier than thou garbage is giving the rest of us who are balanced and normal a headache.
‘Patience!’ ‘Get behind the team!’ ‘This is the best we’ve done in 47 years!’ If you genuinely want to release these upbeat emotions, then buy a bloody ticket and spare the rest of us the religious zealot spiel. Nobody who enjoys free thought is with you. We don’t need policing.
The game was predictable enough fare. At one stage we counter attacked, yes counter attacked to find seven Villans in their penalty area …not including Given.
Tactically Arry screwed up yet again. In a nutshell he waited forever after Rose was sent off and then when we desperately needed a goal, he brought on Scotty Parker. Three at the back was the answer, but he’s too obstinate to even consider it.
The Fulham game could well turn out to be the Tea Time of The Long Knives.
5.009 Shocking goal. He didn’t even move.
4.000 Guilty of being too gormless to wear the shirt.
6.999 He’s largely just what the Dr. ordered.
6.876 Took his goal well, otherwise a commanding shift.
4.003 Good at running, but also frequently outwitted by sheep.
7.234 Does the job of four men every game.
6. 564 A bit wasteful, a bit not quite at the races,
7.001 Better, not worth £40m yet but looking sharper.
6.345 If you stayed on the left son, you’d achieve much more.
7.145 He’d do a lot better with Kyle and Bale playing in position.
7.212 His first touch is routinely iffy. Come on Ade, sort it out!
Nearly every time one of our players does a back pass to the opposition goalie have a look along the line and you will see Lenon jumping up and down in frustration at not being slotted in for a one on one.
HH you see something in Ade that I obviously can’t see,he’s lazy.I think we could do a lot better and I hope we part company sharpish.
A draw was not good enough but when silly boy Rose got sent off I would have settled for it.
I agree with all you wrote about arry,him seeing Gomes as a clown seems funny in a sad way.
Frontwheel, 3 or 4 times that happened.. Lennon was unmarked at goal side as well on a couple of occassions, and did not get the service which could have resulted in a goal.Its these missed opportunity’s that has cost us games.
Could he not see that Villa had no intent whatsoever to attack us and were more than happy to defend a point?
Saying that, was Defoe really going to be our saviour? Less presence than a paper bag. It is Redknapp’s fault however that our options up front actually make the mediocre Adebayor look like a world beater.
Next Sunday at the final whistle would be an excellent time to terminate Redknapp’s contract.
Not that we played particularly badly yesterday, although they were so shite it looked like they were playing with 10, but because Redknapp and his back room bums have run clean out of ideas.
He has a year left on his contract – pay it off, and fuck him off. Thanks ‘Arry, now pack your bags and do one.
We know he’d rather be England boss than be at Tottenham, and it’s more than likely that this England obsession hasn’t gone away and will be back once his pals in the press have forced Hodgson out.
We need a new manager with new ideas; a manager Levy can back knowing that he wants to be at the club, and most of all, a manager that can keep his mouth shut and get on with the job.
Levy must have had someone in mind with all this going on. He should pull the trigger on motor-mouth and bring him in.
Redknapp out!
Lambert looks like a no nonsence hard ass Scotsman….they’re pretty good characateristics for a prem manager, I heard…
Fact is – successful managers in the Premier League have either been given plenty of time (Ferguson, Wenger)or a boat load of money.
The only way we do better than Harry is bringing somebody in and giving them the means to compete. And by means I’m talking 70-80 million.
I’m sure most of you anti-Harry brigade would also have wanted Keith Burkinshaw sacked after his first season.
Ffs, simon! Has it never occurred to you that they are actually good managers and deserved time?
Top 6 for 3 consecutive seasons for the first time in 47 years. Why does that not qualify as good?
Simon, because we are Tottenham and we have a long standing tradition of regularly finishing in the top 6. Oh, errrrrr hang on a minute………….
Simon, the Arry angst is largely down to him being a deceitful little git who only started coming out with what a top top club we are once he had no other options left to him.
The squad is unsettled and is bad need of someone who can manage them back to their best.
Football – when all the managers you list there – was unrecognisable to how it is now.
Wenger finished third in his first year at Arsenal and won the double the next year. Mourinho too hit the ground running.
Lambert took a side beaten 7-1 at home in their opening fixture a couple of years ago to win the leaguer that year and got promoted the year after that as well.
I don’t have the same anti-Redknapp feelings as a lot on here but there are better managers out there and I hope Levy feels the same.
If he were a younger man, had an ounce of dignity and humility about him and was prepared to learn, I’d give him time.
Rose has done us a favour…Bale at LB would reduce his drifting into the centre and so that is where he should start on Sunday. This may also help him to be more affective in an attacking sense and he should tear Steven Kelly a new one…
Reading the comments, ratings and viewing the MOTD highlights, Walker is literally the walking wounded and our lack of squad depth will ensure that he gameplay next week may be compromised.
A certain Mr. Dos Santos may be the hero next Sunday.
Our lack of goal scoring midfielders and a top quality striker (neither of which were purchased in Jan along with the discarding of Pienaar) may well ultimately cost us.
The Eyeballer would give many pennies for Levy’s thoughts.
Sunday will be fun in a masochistic way and I am looking forward to it….COYS!
Does anyone realise Walker has been playing with a broken toe? The guy seems to take alot of stick on here for some reason…at least we’ve got players like him giving it 110% for the club and who are happy to commit to it.
I’ve no idea why any of the defence get stick.
Only City have conceded fewer goals at home, and with our gung-ho, flying wing back “get out there and ‘ave a go” tactics away from home, it’s amazing we haven’t conceded more.
No. We don’t score enough goals.
If he’s too broken to play, bench him, don’t make excuses for him. Granted, not all players would be willing to play on painkillers, and I guess that’s admirable, but it doesn’t automatically mean he plays well.
He had 4-5 simple side/back-passes that went straight to the opposition. That has nothing to do with a broken toe.
explain this to me, which toe is his brain in?
:lol:
Is his toe bone connected to his brain bone?
Can’t bench him because we have no other RB.
Corluka and Naughton on loan. Great planning.
dem bones dem bones dem dry bones, now hear the word of the lord!
Not me. I only slagged his “Dead Otter” hair-cut… I think he’s the bees knee and the cats pyjamas.
I’ll feel a lot happier if Cheatski come away from Anfield with no more than a point as that’ll rule them out of the running for good. I really can’t see Newcastle winning at Goodison on Sunday either which means we should finish at least fourth no matter what happens. And if Match of the Day highlights are anything to go by Arsenal will do very well to claim three points at the Hawthorns.
It may well be more by luck than judgement, but I still fancy us to finish third when all this blows over.
I also expect to win the lottery every time i play it.
The lottery isn’t dependent on other people fucking it up for you to scoop the jackpot. The teams we’re up against have much harder tasks ahead of them than we have.