Good morning.
There is a depressing quantity of uninformed rubbish out there.
‘You only just noticed?’ comes the cry. But for the love of Mary Poppins what is the point of ‘writing’ about something you essentially don’t understand? I maintain that football isn’t a complicated game yet some of the stuff out there is surely being published as a wind up or part of a post stroke rehabilitation scheme.
The utterly miserable Triffic Tottenham warn of the looming specter of ‘a major campaign to reinstate Harry Redknapp.’ The piece continues, ‘you can guarantee that any top Premier League team to lose their manager will be straight after Harry.’
As was evident when Swansea, Norwich, Liverpool, Aston Villa, West Brom, Chelsea and even Birmingham all recently opted to swerved his invaluable services. Not to mention the FA! Nobody in their right mind wants anything to do with him.
The but we finished fourth mantra is another myth that urgently wants busting. Courtesy of @EwanRoberts:
If you take the second half of our season – the second set of 19 games – we won just seven matches. A win percentage of just 36%…and three of those wins (none of which were convincing) came in our final four games.
If you then deduct from this magnificent inheritance, this legacy of a genius; the services of Modric, Ledley King and van Der Vaart any attempt to dress up the train wreck Arry left behind him is on a par with something spouted by that Iraqi loon, Chemical Ali.
So backing Villas-Boas isn’t some happy clapper love in. It’s called support based upon intelligence. The boss has plenty to do and it might, just might aid the cause if when those attending games didn’t have their minds polluted by misinformation constructed by dull children.
But finding football ‘a bit too complicated’ isn’t the exclusive preserve of brainless bloggers. You can be in the game for decades and still be unable to find your bottom with both hands and a map. This Hugo Loris business has seemingly got out of hand before a ball has been kicked thanks to a bizarre comment from the old woman that is Didier Deschamps
“Hugo has not appreciated the statements of his coach.I am not going to create a problem that I do not need today. But if it were to happen then it would need some consideration. I do not want Hugo to find himself in this situation.”
And in other news it might rain and you might not have an umbrella.
The painfully obvious issue here being either deliberately ignored by the press or not grasped by them as they are too thick is that of Villa-Boas’ impeccable manners and sensibility.
Unlike our previous incumbent, the new boss is able to be in the same postcode as a microphone without morphing into a free wheeling guest from This Is Your Life with an Attention Deficit disorder. He thinks before he speaks.
Like the business with Dawson. It looked even money he was off. But until the deal was done he spoke about Michael and his immense human dimensions (easy, ladies) respectfully.
And not:
“…yur well ‘es an ‘oof merchant so we ‘oping that Stoke or some other pub team come in for ‘im, top top ‘oofer, for sure.”
So with Bradley he’s not going to announce him being elbowed out by a younger man to the press. Any coach worth his salt needs to keep his charges motivated and feeling valued, even if their days might well be just a little bit numbered.
Three games in. Three.
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HH, Arry had 14 people he played all season long, our team weren’t deep enough to lasted all season plus of course he wasn’t focused on the team with all that media scum and people like Alex F. trumping that he is the man for the job. His biggest blunder in my opinion was the fact that he did nothing in the january transfer window, he should have kept Pav. For us as a team the decisive game was against City when JD was inches away from the win. We would’ve been in a very different position right now and no one would care about the points in the second half of the season… in even though team was really poor there where head and shoulders above from what we saw last weekend and with all due respect you have to count season numbers as season number. Since October to December we played best football in the league. I will never forget 2 San Siro’s those emotions boys and Arry gave me is better then fuccing supermodel. I’ll choose Arry over this pseudo portugese intellectual any day. I spend years playing to know better.
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All of this chit-chat about AVB v Harry is kind of fruitless. Our final league position will tell us everything anyway. However, a couple of observations if i may?
A ‘train wreck left behind’ was refered to in the original piece. Firstly, what is Tottenham’s yard-stick here exactly? Never finishing in the top 4 until the last 3 seasons (when the previous manager was in charge)and rarely in the top ten before that makes me wonder just what was left behind year after year before the two 4th places? If a team that got 4th leaves a ‘train wreck’ what does that make one that struggled to make the top half? The aftermath of something like Hiroshima?? Ok, maybe i understand the ranking system here… We start at a train wreck and crank it up to towards eleven the lower the league placing, right?
Honestly, do you actually remember what went before? Do you have no memory of the mediorcity that defined Spurs in the Premier League all those years until we got to the San Siro with the ghastly Arry? Climg to AVB all you like but if he doesn’t sort it out sharpish he’ll be out on his ear before you can say ‘pseudo intellectual’. One thing Levy does not do is keep faith… Even with a manager who gets us 4th. Good job AVB came as a free agent, easy come easy go… just wait and see. This will be the real ‘Car Crash!!!