Good morning.
That nursery rhyme was all about struggling and getting by in life to little purpose. When that was written to ‘pop’ was to pawn, ‘weasel and stoat’ referred to a coat. The sentiment seems all too apt this morning.
So now we supporters enter into a period of relative awfulness as the transfer window rattles and creaks as the knackered putty of threat and rumour falls out all over the shop.
We pawned any tangible achievement this season for the vanity and reptilian ambition of our manager. And that’s not up for debate.
The laughable ‘argument’ from this clown’s apologists isn’t an argument. It’s the just the utterly desperate clucking those seeking to make themselves look more considered than the angry mob.
‘But look at his record before all this England business!’ will come the cry. Well I agree. It was all rather jolly up until then.
But how do you want it? This is like saying that your son or daughter was operated on by the world’s greatest surgeon. He saved their life with a heart transplant. Then he carried out the most incomprehensibly difficult neurosurgery. The man had given hope and a future to that thing most precious.
But then one afternoon he accidentally amputated your child’s head because he was trying to get a high score playing Angry Birds.
Let me be clear. I would have fired Arry even if Bayern had won. Ideally I would have had Danny Baker do it in a Daz doorstep challenge style live on TV. It is not remotely rational to argue that Fabio getting the bullet and Arry flushing a 10 or was it in fact a 12 point lead was somehow, merely coincidental. It’s like suggesting the FA were to blame. In fact, it’s wishing. That’s what all that is. Wishing.
He spent the entire period honeymooning like it was a done deal. No other manager, no other pundit or journalist even devoted as much of their time to the England situation as Arry. The oaf was convinced he’d got it. Virtually every day he was on the phone to talkSPORT or waxing lyrical to some other poor bar stewards of the press.
And while the cat was away the mice did play.
The indulgence of Bale’s vision to become the Welsh Ronaldo cost us plenty also. No manager worth their salt would put up with something that so unrelentingly doesn’t work.
The responsibility for this fiasco lies squarely on the shoulders of Henry James Redschnapps. But Levy & Co. aren’t as daft as this cockney shyster would perhaps like to think and his inability to stay even vaguely on message will have been noted.
Will Modric flee, who knows? What is for certain is that Arry isn’t fit to hold the job and cannot possibly be relied upon to act in the best interests of the club.
Who would I bring in? Difficult to see Ian Dowie making as bigger fist of it if I’m honest. It needs to be someone with a CV. Martinez doesn’t have a CV. He’s a favourite colour. This week’s must have handbag. Brendan Rodgers I respected, but him turning down even the ‘opportunity’ to talk to Liverpool upgraded him from respect to admiration.
Leaving aside the Lollypop Land suggestions of managers that would require budgets we do not have and Champions League credentials that we do not have, the obvious choice is Capello. His big faults allegedly were that he didn’t have a rapport with the press and that his English was poor. His CV says that he speaks football fluently and if we could hire someone that didn’t turn into a tame monkey every time someone pointed a microphone at him, I’d be delighted.
Yes but Capello work with less money than it costs to buy a gelato in Rome?
Do they loan Gelatos in Rome?
I would love to know why we did not secure any of these big names in the transfer windows….if you think of it, any manager would relish to work with a very good player. I wonder if it is not the Redknapp effect but rather we will not pay astronomical wages.
I refuse to lower my expectations though. I would love Levy to bring in Capello, a proven winner who has won more than just one FA Cup in his managerial career. But I have a horrible feeling that we will have Henry James for another year.
Cheer up chaps.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2147560/Jan-Vertonghen-interested-Tottenham.html
True lilywhite and blue Yiddo if the reports are correct. :-D
Torres has got the hump. We’ll have him cut price, and remind him how to play the game.
He was tweeting to Tottenham players while he was on the bench that he wanted Bayern to win
I don’t know why you all have the hump with Harry, he got us 4th and he is still a top top coach :-p
In that case someone needs to get inside him and drive him off Southend Pier.
I completely agree, the man has performed miracles with our below average squad, we only had 2 points from 8 games when he came you know and things didn’t look good…..he should be given the keys to the city and at least an MBE……