Good afternoon.
Graham Roberts played for Spurs when I first diagnosed with Tottingham Intravenous. He was part of the whole yin and yang that was going on a Spurs in the 80’s. Glenda Hoddle would hit a sublime thirty five yard pass with inch perfect perfection. By contrast you’d probably be better off being hit by a family saloon car than Rambo. Graham won two FA Cups and a UEFA cup in his his time at The Lane.
So Roberts is an ex-player I have tremendous respect for. But (you just knew it was coming) his career as a coach has been less distinguished. Three years at Yeovil Town, a year at Clyde, then nothing for four years, then a year at Pakistan, then a year at Nepal.
So quite how Rambo having achieved naff all fannying about for nearly two decades as a manager feels he’s placed to pass judgement on Villas Boas after three games is beyond me.
“As a manager you have to pick up the boys. He needs to get a personality change. You might say that is the way he is – but you’ve also got to be happy sometimes and that breeds confidence in the lads so that they play better.
To me it doesn’t look as if he has learned from his time at Chelsea when he spoke badly to some players.
His speech is very slow and you are waiting for something to come out positive. As a player you can be lifted by the way the manager speaks. Harry was brilliant at that. He was bubbly all the time and, even if he was down inside, he always made it seem positive.” [link]
What a complete and utter load of garbage.
Under Roberts’ checklist criteria, most of the greatest managers football has ever known wouldn’t have made the grade Paisley, Ferguson, Clough, Hitzfield, Herrera, Mourinho, Revie, Beckenbauer, Munoz, Stein…
Roberts is either a Redknapp lacky or not very bright. ‘Bubbly?’ The men listed above were legendary football men. Not teenage hairdressers mincing around asking people, ‘you going anywhere nice on holidays this year?’ If footballers want to be spoken to nicely, I suggest they might prefer afternoon tea at their grans over playing for a manager that’s any good.
Elsewhere the venerable Top Spurs is running a piece that starts off with the line, ‘The first thing I would like to make to clear before this rant begins is that I think there are plenty of worse owners of football clubs than Joe Lewis and Daniel Levy’s ENIC’ [link] and then proceeds to give us over 1300 words arguing the opposite. Arguing that all THFC’s owners worry about is balancing the books and …it’s costing us as a football team.
1300 words from some clown trying to pass off the fantasies that we forced Van der Vaart out the door to save or make a few quid and that the whole Moutinho thing was a smokescreen.
Three games in and we’ve got a burn out and and bloke who’s writing at length about information he’s not been privy to. I could weep.
As my old Nan used to say: nobody can tell you’re an idiot until you open your mouth.
Have you been watching Catherine Tate?
Are you her stalker?
I am.I like all her characters but Nan is top notch.
Do me a Fuuuuuuucccccccckkkkking favour!!!!!!!!!
shes talking a fucking foreign language aint she???????????????????????”
Not a word
they dont make Nans like that anymore.
fucking unbelieeeeeeeeevable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
call yourself a fucking Tottenham supporter do you???????????? watch that lot……do me a fucking favour!!!!!!!
Better off going to Bournemouth and watch some ad hoc fucking football!!!!!!
planned is it???? a high line is it????????
one up front and all that!!!!!!!!!
Come off it!!!! pack em all in????? Thats good for fucking sardines!!!!!!
Have you used your “get out of jail free” card yet from your Brazilian cell?
I think Ronnie’s in pain after having a Brazillian?
Ronnie is proving good value on here today! Keep it up Ronald!!
I was supposed to get paid for this.
Despondent at best now.
Not only are we not changing the formations and concept,Catherine Nan has not been signed as a striker….sorry a what a fucking fantastic striker she is type striker…..BTW Boy,I just bought the Old Kent Road why would I need to Get Out of Jail Free? I like it here.Its near Millwall.Not that Im a Millwall fan but they have very low lines not high ones.
if the naysayers are correct,then AVB will be fired and we will then park the bus for the rest of the season and win everything.we have 4 goalies,we could play 1 in goal and 3 as a back line.
That’s how Chelsea did it…. didn’t they?
I know it wrong, and I’m having treatment (ask Hartley), but I actually think she’s a bit fit-well, it’s a step from Anne Widdcombe anyway ;-)
Who? The Nan from Catherine Tate????? :dizzy2:
Well, it’s actually CT herself Phil, but a bit older or am I confused?, I was never confused you know?
HH – dont shoot the messenger.
How about the Sherrif?
Bollocks, i’m going for the Deputy!
AVB is rubbish…. blah, blah, blah…. not good enough for Chelsea…. blah, blah, blah…. it’s Ramos all over again…. blah, blah, blah…. 2 defensive midfielders…. blah, blah, blah.
Frankly I’m glad we’re playing away next because our own supporters aren’t doing the team any favours.
The fact we’re not at The Lane is a huge advantage. I’ve yet to be anything other than impressed with away fans.
They sing a lot, despite always being outnumbered and despite frequently being hundreds of miles from home, they never leave early.
What a conundrum.
:wassat:
Yeah, the Newcastle lads were impressed with our boys on the opening day. Norwich game was embarrassing, worst atmosphere we’ve had in a long time. Hopefully the boo boys will be feeling a bit ashamed and get behind the team from kick-off, or preferably won’t bother turning up and leave the seats to the real fans.
I posted previously about my disgust at some of the numpties that were screaming behind me at the Norwich game, and the new faces around me that joined in later, most of whom I had never seen before. It has since dawned on me that a lot of regulars must have been on their hols, and their places were either taken up by friends of friends or casuals via the ticket exchange. Hopefully this wn’t be the case next home game.
”Ave it’ away day’s are the bollocks-anyone who travels will tell you, it’s the best way to support the team. Regardless of the result, the best games I’ve witnessed have been always away from the Lane-even Man City last season had me purring with pride.
My own classic’s are Leeds and Man Utd, no keepers, both wins and fantastic backing from our supporters not ‘followers’, if you get my drift?
Not sure if I do. But at a guess it sounds like those that go to away matches [all 3000 of them]-[people, not matches], are ‘proper’ supporters, and other than, are ‘followers’? Sounds like a dig at ‘followers’? Is it? Your posts are often spot-on. I’d be surprised if you thought this. How many Spurs fans are there? How can we all go? If someone hasn’t the money needed or has too many kids to look after, works the wrong hours, etc, etc. They go down in your opinion? Hope I’m wrong and deepest apologies if I am.
Not in the slightest, I probably mean, we attend games with less expectation and therefore take a defeat as a gimme, a draw as a win and a win as something to be savoured. We have a party of regulars, sometimes 20, sometimes 35, and have a blast..mostly..other times it can get fractious and out of hand, but that’s the fun. Home games, especially lately-have been so flat-it’s almost painful-I want those wooden stands to shake once again.
Cool. Sorry, I’m a gun-jumper. And I fully appreciate that big difference between armchairers and actual goers, the level of appreciation, endurance, etc. And way of life. Some of the best bits are training up and down the country. I’ve done a little bit but am by no means a regular. Pitch-side is such a different perspective, though, harder I think. A lot of managers move up a few tiers sometimes for a better view. I do find it easier to follow from the box, so long as Lawro’s not impeeding my head.
Get it where you can-I just love the club-players and managers are passing ships-it’s us who are the constant-but, I’m not fool enough to think that in today’s football, that my couple of hard earned readies are anywhere near enough to pay for the polish on a players car- Keep the faith (it’s all we have) :whistle:
Ramos won a cup, Harry did not, Jol did not…having ‘Ramos all over again’ seems like a better option than you’re all making out. It was a tin pot but it was one which for years we kept using as a stick to beat Arsenal’s silverware drought with…