by Jack Howes
I was on Twitter yesterday minding my own business when I happened to come across this article on the Daily Mirror website written by Darren Lewis. The same Daily Mirror who had another of its journalists John Cross suggesting that the Tottenham owners ‘were worse than the Venky’s’ in the aftermath of Harry Redknapp’s sacking.
Well reading this article I was incensed by it as a Spurs fan. There are more holes in this article than in a block of swiss cheese. The amount of assumptions and half-truths in it rivals what you’d expect from a Scientology meeting.
This article is a complete joke and for it to be appearing in a national newspaper is a disgrace. It is also I feel insulting to the hundreds of top quality internet bloggers who could write a fairer, wittier, much less biased article in their sleep. Below I will go through every paragraph to point out errors, misplaced assumptions and ridiculous bias and prejudice in this article….
Early next week, everything will become a lot clearer.
Presumably, no one actually knows yet if everything will become clearer this week
The Tottenham’s players will return from their summer holidays and Daniel Levy will reveal the identity of the man he believes can do a better job of taking the club forward than Harry Redknapp.
We don’t know this for a fact yet
And yet it will be hard for the fans to escape the feeling that their chairman is gambling with the club.
As a lifelong Spurs fan born into a Spurs supporting family and is active on social media with other Spurs fans no one has said ‘Levy is gambling with the club’.
As pointed out elsewhere on MirrorFootball, Andre Villas Boas couldn’t handle it at Chelsea .
Fair enough, though the job he was given was an almost impossible one
He couldn’t handle the players. He couldn’t handle the expectation and he couldn’t handle the media.
Fair enough
Yet Spurs have traded a man famed for his man-management skills for a man who showed very little at Stamford Bridge.
The same Harry Redknapp who upset Darren Bent by saying his wife could have converted a chance Bent missed.
And, just as Roy Hodgson and his derided, archaic 4-4-2 has the spectre of Harry Redknapp hanging over him, so too does Villas-Boas.
Fair enough I guess, though most Spurs fans were not unhappy to see Harry leave. The press will compare Harry to AVB more than fans will.
To be fair, it is not only rival fans of other clubs whose tribalism has branded Redknapp much of a muchness. Spurs fans have done it too.
Yes. With good reason too. Redknapp’s poor tactics and lack of squad rotation cost us a Champions League place.
They have refused to accept the scale of Redknapp’s achievement in taking a club with the sixth-biggest wage bill in the Premier League (and, by definition, the country) to fourth, fifth and fourth.
Spurs fans are thankful for what Harry did. He gave us memories that will last a lifetime. We supported him throughout his court case. His sacking was more for his conduct towards Daniel Levy than matters on the pitch.
They refuse to accept that Luka Modric, now so sought after, was treading water at White Hart Lane until Redknapp arrived.
Huh? We accept that Modric struggled when he first moved to Tottenham. To say he was treading water though when we’d paid £16m for a 21 year old who’d never played out of the Balkans before though is a joke.
They scoff at the fact that Gareth Bale was going backwards until he worked with Redknapp to become one of the most valued wingers in European football.
The same Redknapp who was prepared to sell Gareth Bale for a minimal transfer fee to Nottingham Forest in late 2009 and only played him due to injury to Benoit Assou-Ekotto. Who then played Bale on the right side of midfield or down the middle to the point that fans were chanting ‘Gareth Bale, he plays on the left’. Also we are well aware of Bale’s early struggles at Spurs and his run of appearances without his team winning. To say ‘we’ (what Spurs fans did he talk to?) scoff at Bale’s lack of early progress is ridiculous.
And they refuse to accept that Levy had a plan all along. The Spurs chairman didn’t invest in the squad and the team in January as he should have done because even then he had been planning for life without Harry.
This is common sense. Redknapp was favourite to replace Fabio Capello as England manager in January (we thought Capello at this point would leave after the Euros, not in February as transpired). For Levy not to have a back-up plan in the case of Redknapp leaving would have been a neglecting of his duty of care. Also Levy was right not to hand over transfer funds to a manager who was likely gone in six months. That would mean having to give over big funds to a manager in January and then a new manager who wants to bring in his own players in the summer. Spurs simply can’t afford to spend big in two successive transfer windows.
Had Levy backed Redknapp’s big to bring in Carlos Tevez and Gary Cahill back then Spurs surely would have had the solidity at the back and the goals up front to snatch third place.
Tevez’s wages and the fact City had already given Spurs Emmanuel Adebayor on loan would have meant this deal was out of the question. It was reported widely in the press that Spurs bid for Cahill – he decided to go to Chelsea by most accounts.
But then why fund big signings and huge wages when you know you want to ease the man in charge out six months later?
Levy offered Redknapp a new four year contract in February in the aftermath of his acquittal in court. Hardly the actions of a man wanting to ‘ease out’ Redknapp in the summer.
So good luck Daniel Levy with the bold bid for a brave new world at Spurs that few people are convinced by.
By ‘few people’ you mean journalists. The pro-Harry slant in the papers does not reflect the feeling amongst either the Tottenham fanbase nor from what I’ve seen on other club’s messageboards or on social media sites. Most accept that Harry in using the press to force Levy to give him a new contract following Spurs dreadful collapse last season had to go.
And maybe those Spurs fans who agree with Levy that the club can do better without Redknapp – and the investment he should have had – need to careful what they wish for.
The ‘investment he should have had’ – Giving funds to a manager who may well be leaving in six months is not a good move. Giving funds to a manager who wanted to fill the side with veterans (look at the signings of Nelsen, Gallas, Friedel, Saha and attempted signing of Phil Neville) wasn’t the greatest idea either.
Villas-Boas has everything to prove and Spurs have everything to lose.
‘Everything to lose’? To be honest we lost almost everything last season. A champions league place, bragging rights over Arsenal and Chelsea, possibly losing Modric and Bale this summer – we’ve already lost a lot to be flippant about things. To say we have ‘everything to lose’ is over-dramatic. We’re not in danger of relegation or administration. Portsmouth, Rangers and numerous other clubs in strife have ‘everything to lose’. Not Spurs.
The ex-Porto coach didn’t fancy Lampard, Drogba or Ashley Cole. As soon as the door slams shut behind him, all three come back into the Chelsea team and help the club to their first-ever Champions League alongside the FA Cup.
Fair enough though seeing as Ashley Cole played almost every game I don’t know how that proves AVB ‘didn’t fancy him’. Also AVB was told to rejuvenate Chelsea and revolutionise their style of play while Di Matteo was not given such a brief and told to do the best he could till the end of the season. There’s a big difference there.
Little wonder then that Spurs fans will be rightly apprehensive about the man who will take the chair next week.
Yes there are fans who are apprehensive. But there are also fans who are quite optimistic about what AVB may bring to Spurs. Also to say ‘rightly apprehensive’ – the Mirror are already marking out their anti-AVB territory. Before he’s even been hired.
They will look to see which players are in AVB’s plans and which are left kicking their heels when the club kick off the new Premier League season at Newcastle on August 18.
Pointless sentence. ‘Fans look to see which players are signed and which players are not in the starting XI’ is hardly news is it?
We’ve already seen Ryan Nelsen shipped out to QPR. Ledley King’s time has run out and the word on the street is William Gallas could be on his way this summer too.
Nelsen was a stop gap signing while Gallas hardly played last season. Both are old and injury prone. With Steven Caulker coming back on loan, Michael Dawson returning to fitness and Jan Vertonghen supposedly on the way Gallas and Nelsen are expendable. He’s right about Ledley – Ledley’s a legend, but a legend with waning powers. Levy, offer him a coaching job for life please.
The imminent recruitment of Jan Vertonghen from Ajax and Gylfi Sigurdsson from Hoffenheim is a method of operating that would have drawn criticism had Chelsea done it.
These signings are common sense signings with wide backing from Spurs fans. Also how do we know that prospective managers haven’t been asked about whether they’d like these players and have given their approval should they get the job?
The feeling would be that Roman Abramovich is bringing in the stars he fancies and that the man is charge is simply tasked with making it sing.
Possibly, though Abramovich did that with a combined £80m for Andriy Shevchenko and Fernando Torres, both expensive players Chelsea didn’t really need. Tottenham are spending roughly £20m on players of need.
Well that appears to be the case with Tottenham these days.
Levy is a business man, Abramovich runs Chelsea to fuel his love of the game. Levy trying to move Tottenham to Stratford and having some of the league’s highest ticket prices show he’s hardly some football romantic signing players willy-nilly. Also the director of football system which caused friction between manager and board level was got rid of when Redknapp became manager.
Levy is understood to favour moving away from older players and you do sometimes wonder why he doesn’t just go the whole hog, get a tracksuit and take training.
So a chairman making some common sense transfers (possibly with the incoming manager’s seal of approval) should now start taking training sessions? Ludicrous hyperbole. Also to suggest that moving away from older players is a bad thing is debateable. Surely managers and chairmen should seek when possible to always have a young team?
After all, Giggs, Scholes, Ferdinand and Neville have all helped bed in young players at Manchester United.
United’s veterans are exceptional for their age and its incredibly rare for veterans of the calibre of United’s veterans to be at a club. Also given United’s relatively poor campaign last season and the over-reliance on Scholes/Giggs I’m not sure they are a top notch advert for teams to have a plethora of veteran playersi n their squads.
The senior citizens at Chelsea all spearheaded the club’s assault on silverware last season.
Fair enough, though again Chelsea’s triumph was a one-off won in exceptional circumstances with the likes of Luiz, Cahill and Ramires as Chelsea’s best performers last season. Having an old side I refused to be convinced is the way to go.
But Levy wants to go the other way. Presumably to make a few bob in the process.
Levy is a chairman of a football club. Chairmen in football are there to make money. To suggest otherwise is misty-eyed romanticism of an age where chairmen were all local businessmen who owned clubs without the concept of profit entering their heads (an age which I doubt ever existed).
All of which means the real fear remains that while Spurs fans enjoyed (during the first half of the season anyway) mixing it with Arsenal in the race for Champions League football, the Gunners are set to move on while Tottenham go backwards.
Fair enough to say we’re going backwards. But it was Harry who led us to our mid-season collapse which led to us finishing below Arsenal and Spurs not making the Champions League. Not making the Champions League, with the loss in income and perhaps the loss of players is what will led to us possibly going backwards.
For that not to be the case, Levy – and Villas-Boas – need to pull some real rabbits out of the hat during what remains of this summer.
Yes they do. With Sigurdsson and Vertonghen, Levy and possibly AVB (if he becomes our manager) are trying to pull the proverbial rabbit out of the hat.
Why let these ‘Redknapp lovers’ wind you up, they are scumbags just like Redknapp himself. They will give AVB as hard of a time as they can, but if the fans stay behind the manager Levy chooses and he has a bit of luck on the pitch they will soon turn their attentions elsewhere.
One thing for sure, these hacks never ever hold their hands up and apologise. Thanks for your article, it answered the Mirrors bitterness fully.
I can see now why u felt the need to address the article line by line. Absolute nonsense. Pisses me off when so called experts feel they are voicing the opinion of fans when really they have no idea what they are talking about. Some of the comments are so amateurish i’m actually questioning whether they are genuine. The Mirror always has been just glorified shit-wipe.
Who gives a rats arse what these two write.Cross is an out and out Gooner.He is always derogative of any other club.While lewis,has just jumped on the feel sorry of Redknapp bandwagon.Besides im surprised you even reading the Mirror or the Sun for that matter.They both appeal to the lowest common denominator of intelligenceThats why so many Gooners read them.
As a trainee Sports Journalist, that has to be the most appalling article i have ever read. I really do not understand why everybody thinks we are going to fail? We have been left with some good foundations- a team who can finish 4th in the EPL. I mean Redknapp did an amazing job but he had to go when he started flirting with the England job and not doing his job at Spurs. People talking about how he made Bale good- he was going to send him to Nottingham Forest along with Gunter until eketto injured. Modric- same thing- Palacios got suspended- there was no one else to play like usual so he made Modric played there and now HE thinks hes bigger and better than than the club. Redknapp never solved our problems- we needed a keeper- he gets Fridel- not saying hes not good because he is but it still didnt solve the problem of finding a keeper, same with a striker- Saha- Seriously?
Just because AVB failed at Chelsea does not mean he will fail at Tottenham- Tottenham and Chelsea are two complete different clubs with different ideas- Chelsea cant play football whereas Tottenham pride themselves on how we play- AVB wants to play a 4-3-3 formation like Portugal did against Spain which stopped Barcelona without Messi from playing- it is similar to the way we played last season- pressing higher up the pitch, winning the ball quickly etc We have the players for it to work whereas Chelsea didn’t. I have a feeling AVB will be to us what Guardiola is to Barcelona- they were in a similar position to us in that they were a good team, had won the CL once but were finding it hard to compete with Madrid- look at them now. We re a good team with good history- i see no reason why we cant succeed.
Well said, why all the doom and gloom we will have a younger more exciting team and the future is looking bright.
COYS
As a Benfica and Spurs fan:
I saw all the games from FC Porto whith AVB. Bealive me, i saw top class football!
Chealsea… was a joke. they waste one of the future best managers.
I have no doubt, if spurs get AVB, we will win the PL in 2 or 3 years.
Come on you spurs!
Loved your analysis of the article man, it was very well thought out and will show some skeptics the real picture. Keep up the good work.
And Lewis (the guy who “wrote” that) actually calls himself a Spurs fan…
No. He’s on talksport regularly between 7-7.30am and has said quite a few times that he’s a liverpool fan.
He is, however, a massive Redknapp fan.
I remember when AVB walked into Chelsea I really thought he looked the business. I think he was given a hard time by seasoned veterans who didn’t want to or couldn’t bring themselves to give enough respect to such a young unproven manager. And if you don’t have the respect of who your managing in any job it doesn’t matter how good you are
but its not gonna work. I hope it will be different at spurs for him and for our sake as well. COYS
Excellent response and it begs the question:”what is a football journalist?”
From the above Mirror article I would say a prejudiced ignoramus who should stick to his day job but then, you can simply look at the total bull effluent put out by the media genewrally (eg a man runs amok killing 12 people and shouting:”Alahu Akbar” (our god is the greatest)) and the media asks:”Why did he do it?”) to gain the truth which is that the media and probably ALL of it only give us the limited amount of information that someone(the establishment, the media ownwers, the government and NOT the elders of Zion )) see fit to give us and that truth is not a high priority and hence beleive it at your own risk.
The Daily Mirror despises Tottenham and seeing how Spurs outplayed their beloved Arsenal for most of the season they want to attack Tottenham at every opportunity.If you support Spurs boycott the Mirror.
I have always ignored the Mirror since the early 90s
Shit paper, shit sports writeup, shit gooner football jounalist. And Talk sport are againnst Levy and Spurs lately, including our very own Alan Brazil.
I see that other no-nothing Martin Lipton took his turn today (28-06-’12), Levy knows nothing Harry is the next thing to God, what are Spurs doing.
There was a different journo last week and another in the Sunday version of this vile rag.
It is pity though.
I worked in Fleet Street during the 80’s and at that time the paper had a good reputation.
Nice read. typical of rednapps media circus imo. There are other things that didn’t get mentioned too. Rednapp always had a jibe for spurs fans. He couldn’t handle critism, which means he’ll never learn. He asked to talk to a dubia mob almost as soon as he was installed. Near the end he tried to strong arm Levy with a I’ll go to Qatar. I’ve hated every minute of him at Spurs. I’m uncertain of AVB. However I’ll back this fella if he shows just one ounce of loyalty to spurs. Redapp won nothing, had lost the team as there were many other players apart from bent who copped it..wrongly. it’s a new dawn once again and I dont care if we qualify for the CL next year. So long as were keeping pace playing good football no prob’s. Oh that’s the one that really pisses me off. Tottenham have been known for their footballing tradition a long time before rednapp turned up. Left alone without Levys guidance we’d be deep in it I reckon. I hope rednapp gets a job soon coz i’m sick of the wanker being talked about as some legend of tottenham. He’s a gooner and wet ham man and as far as i’m concerned will never be held in any esteem regarding spurs. As for the mass exodus yep it went like this..rednapp, gorman and jordan. The modric affair is laughable too. When Modric wanted to go, rednapp said what’s the point in keeping an unhappy player. We could buy a lot with 20 million. left to him a lot of old farts.
OOps my bad I meant to say Bond..dunno where I got gorman from. I just get mad when i see anything to do with rednapp.
These are media-mates of Harry. I imagine these media buddies of Harry would not leave Spurs, Roy Hodgson and whoever the new manager at spurs alone for sometime. So, be patient and ignore these journalist wannabes.
It seems that some so-called journalists have nothing else to do but write absolute dribble.
Time will show them that Levy is an astute chairman who has always done what is right for the club. Committing to a new stadium and loved by Spurs fans he is developing the club into, not only a top 4, but also a PL title contender.
But I’m sure that those journalists who have nothing better to do, will fail to see this.
Whatever Spurs do next season, we can depend a solid fan-base second to none. We go through a roller-coaster ride every season. Being a Spurs fan is not for the faint-hearted, but we wouldn’t have in any other way
Both cross and Lewis are tossers and gooners enough said
Lewis is a prick. He’s one of these new age ‘journalists’ who, rather than report what actually happened with a balanced view point, write what ever appeals to their tiny little minds.
Nice one, although use quotatation marks or bold type next time, so it’s easier to read what’s yours and what’s not.
This post was just as bad as the Mirror article! Full of false assumptions, pretending to speak for all Spurs supporters, statements like `Levi offered Redknapp a 4 year deal in February` How does he know that? Hi is making it all up just like the Daily Mirror. What a Dickhead!! spare us from these uninformed morons!
Jonwhite, it’s common knowledge that Rednknap was offered a new contract in the new year, but jack the lad arry thought he was being clever in refusing it. He thought he was a shoe in for the England job & that it might hinder his chances if England had to pay out to much compensation. Lol, a classic example of hoisted by his own petard.
YES! Great article, exactly what loyal Spurs fans a thinking, or should be…
Sports journalists are in a difficult position in the days of Twitter. No longer do they have that vital inside track on knowledge. They have to write something, so they scavenge the news that’s out there and regurgitate it with a large dollop of opinion. Their opinion not public opinion.
Redknapp has always provided the press with good copy and so he is one of their darlings, hence the mass of pro-Redknap, and therefore anti-Spurs, in the media.
I applaud and appreciate what Harry did for us but also understand why the board felt he had to go. I can’t see why the media feel that this should automatically consign us to the nether regions.
dude why bother you shouldnt argue with idiots or madmen. hope the team and new manager use all these negative press as motivation.
AVB is a huge risk, massive failure at a club with infinite resources. He was employed as a Manager, his agenda was to be successful. They spent £80 million whilst he was there. Spose that wasnt his doing.
At THFC he will have a damn sight less resources to be successful. He talks a great game, but it appears he cant get that across. At Porto he won everything at a club that win’s everything. He is 34 years old and has managed one full season.
I don’t agree with the Mirror. I think it’s a poor article. It’s just a shame you had to paint a picture that is equally biased.
I have been a Spurs fan for 35 years know my history this was the same newspaper that was once owned by Robert maxwell if he had have bought the club when we where up for sale and he bid we would be as dead as rangers. People should question harrys judgement we were crying out for a center half last year and our best youngster was on loan. The season before we were crying out for a for a right back walker was at villa getting picked for england. Everyone knew Modric was leaving he should have had Tom caroll training along side him learning instead of a nonsence loan at Derby if AVB comes judge him after a season.
firstly i must admit i was pro-Redknapp,and i still dont believe he was the reason for us missing out on the C/L,i mean who would of thought an understrength chelski team were goin to beat munchen(Abrimovich payoff),then there was that goalkeeper at west brom,seriously,i’ll use a quote out of harrys book,my wife could of saved those,i smell a rat there too(payoff),but back to the point,Harrys gone now,and AVB is coming to town.I am quite excited about his appointment,i think the set-up at chelski was the reason he did’nt succeed,whereas the system at Tottenham could work in his favour,add that with the fact that he could attract some top portugese players,sounds mouthwatering,and that he is a proven manager at the top level,i wish AVB the best and cant wait for him to have us at the summit of the EPL again,that will silence those Redknapp sympathisers.COYS
I agree with all your statements and more. At every club the chairman and owners set the club ethos and the managers work within that. The ethos at spurs is to buy young players with potential and every now and then we have to sell one to develop further. Without billionaire sugar daddies to bankroll the club this is the only way to progress. Each time we have sold big players in the past we have moved up a level, though not always immediately, eg. Carrick and berbatov. Losing modric will be no different. As long as we continue to compete and push for champs lge I’m not too bothered if we get in or not just as long as we don’t disappear back into mid table mediocracy!
Well written – it took some balls to read The Mirror article, or patience I should say.
It was very well written and all points very very relevant – huge well done.
The papers DO have a huge pro-Rednapp leaning and if you don’t believe me – ask ‘why is AVB a failure for his time at Chelsea but Harry’s falling asleep on the wheel skimmed over?
I would argue that Plucking defeat out of a very successful season is a bigger mistake – losing to Norwich, QPR on the way and drawing with a Villa side on their holidays.
Spurs sacked the man, but Harry’s head had gone long before
Oh, and no I don’t want to read those articles! I can’t help but feel that the media act like bullies awaiting AVB
Will they ever give him a chance or will it distract him to failure…remember what they did to Joe Kinnear?
Christopher, As long as we the Fans get behind him & the team I don’t really see a problem. Its a God sent opportunity to stuff it right down their throats.
I no Lewis is a Liverpool fan but what he is saying is is what’s called safe journalism. I will bet any money none of my fellow Cockerels would have said Levey will sack Harry Bondy and Joe and install a cluso like character who looks and sounds like a croaky jumping frog you would have said your mad. So why are you all pretending Harry has suddenly become a rubbish Manager Harry said the truth he would take the English job just like Avb would take the Portugal job. The ones who messed our season up are the three bastards Bernstien Bebbington Brooking who stayed silent while we stumbled over the line and we all seen what Woy has done. We beat Newcastle 5-0 and then the dreaded tapping noises started Bale to Barca Modric to utd Walker the list went on followed by Harry for England and finally Chelscum beat Bayern on penalties then finished 6th and robbed us of champs league. But the biggest reason we finished 4th was caused by the biggest shock season on record once again the culprits was the inept FA whose drug policy is just has bad has Italy s dodgy results. So Levey is not gambling he has made another cheap mistake like the FA who installed Woy because there was no signing fee and our season will be another Ramos if the FA allowed teams on paper who look beat use energy drugs to compete and shock. We all love Spurs so we will back AVB but it could be a painful experience and i will miss Harry Jamie and the media love in a lot thanks Harry for making our club play the best football in the Prem till all the tapping noises ruined it. Coys prove me wrong
The Miroor…..says it all really, one of the bootom 3 in all time guuter press rags.
I don’t think anyone is saying Harry was a bad manager. His biggest problem is that he couldn’t keep his gob shut. The England issue is of Harry’s own doing. Rather than just state he was the Tottenham Manager he was touting himself for the England job at every opportunity even commenting about picking Paul Scholes for England within his Sun column (if he was England manager). Harry just can’t help but gob off with every chance he gets. If he had just got on with his job in the first place we would probably all been laughing at Arsenal instead of them laughing at us for our 4th place finish. Another thing if Harry hadn’t been touting himself for England and excepted the extension to his contract when it was offered (after his court case) then Levy would have no doubt given the money needed to improve the squad in January.
Got to say I have every faith in Levy and the decisions he has made. I believe that what ever decision he makes will be the right one, as he has the clubs best interests at heart unlike Harry.
By the way great article too, well thought out and written.
AVB – has no real experience of working outside of Portugal , he has not played football and at 34 he cannot be ready for Spurs ! We will be a laughing joke if we appointed a Chelsea reject !!!
Only one thing too say spot on AVB is a train wreck in the making
This is the first time I’ve seen this article, mainly because I wouldn’t lower myself to buy the Sun or the Mirror.
The Harry Redknapp arse kissing brigade are starting to become a pathetic joke.
They love him purely because he’s the only manager willing to massage their over inflated opinions of themselves, while all the other coaches treat them with the disdain they deserve and only talk to them because ” It’s part of the job ”
These two-Bob hacks believe that the most important thing about a football match is that they have turned up to report on it.
They honestly believe that they have some influence over football and thought they alone could get their ” Mate ” ‘Arry into the England job and when the job went to Roy Hodgeson they resorted to cowardly attacks on the new coach, not for his tactical approach, but because of a speech impediment. Bullies!
It’s not just last season that Redknapps’ lack of tactical nous led to an end of season collapse. It happened the season before as well.
Harry did a great job for Spurs but he had definitely reached his ceiling and Spurs need to push on
lets be honest, as much as i love spurs we need to be real; we are far behind the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, Utd and City. Arsenal have a big new stadium which is comfortably paying off their debts on the stadium they are in great financial state and year in year out get CL football. Chelsea have a rich owner prepared to fund a new stadium. City and UTD speak for themselves. Im fed up with us aiming and talking in line with bigger clubs and setting our ambitions on unrealistic targets. we’ve won what in the last 10/20/30 years? we do not even sell out all of our home games so lets be realistic welcome the new manager in and try to get a top 6/7 finish and build on this slowly over the years to become a regular to p5 finishing club not just finish 4th twice and 5th twice and think we’ve made it with the big boys.
It’s called being positive
Positivity is a frame of mind….Aim for the Sky and you might hit a star, to say lets finish 7th is pathetic and giving up at the first hurdle
Please think about what you write before commenting on others
You should take encouragement from our Bill Nicholson, who quoted ,better to fail aiming high then to fail aiming low. Also our Moto, to do is to dare, or the words of Derek Trotter, he who dares Rodney.
Rose coloured spectacles comes to mind.
Darren Lewis is a high profile retard. He has no idea about he is writing out, but at the moment – without the distract live Premier League matches – he has found that people are listening. Harry’s departure has allowed a lot of very small people with very big opinions to step forward and make a noise. Just how long he thinks he can keep rolling out this bile is the amazing thing. I first heard this dribbling from his lips on Sky Sports news about two weeks ago. – When he also predicted the summer departure of a disillusioned Gareth Bale. This dim witted journo knows little about football but knows a lot about grabbing headline and milking a story. All he wants in life is to be taken seriously. Pity
Blimey, he did upset you! Trouble is , journalists now are asked for their opinions, rather than reporting what’s going on. Sky even have their own programme with sporting journalists chewing the fat. We all know that Harry got on well with the press, but that’s not a bad thing. They can bring someone down easily of they don’t take a like to him. You don’t have to think back too far to name a few England Managers, for one!
I’ve listened to Darren Lewis, and John Cross, and good journalists they may well be to their newspaper, but their opinions don’t matter two hoots to me. Opinions are like arseholes, every ones got one.
Like most have said Harry did a fantastic job getting where we are now but end of the day he ran out of steam and was more concerned about the England job. We have a team that will rival any legendary team Spurs have fielded. It’s a team of potential, a team to leave your mouth watering in their style of play. If Levy wants young blood he needs to extend that idea to the manager who is willing to mold the team to his ideas. Bring on the next few seasons because we can only get better. With the likes Van der Vart, Bale and Lennon creating play who needs Modric. No player is bigger then the badge, case in point Berbatov. The badge has been my life for as long as I can remember and that will never change.
Bring on the good times
having read these gobby anti harry remarks it seems to me that most of you just dont like him cus we didnt finish above arsenal for third place and lost out on a champions league place to chelski so you now dont have any bragging rights for next season or maybe you were gobbing off all season and were left with egg on your face when we fell at the final hurdle , i do wonder what would of happened had we got third place would any of this happened , and as for me i am no great lover of redknapp but i am thankfull for the last few years of football i have witnessed after the dross we have had for the previous twenty or so . as for the new manager i hope it isnt avb as he doesnt inspire me in any way every time he opened his whining mouth on tv i wanted to hit him so god knows what the players will think , but i will still support my team whoever comes in , my only worry is who is choosing and buying the players at the moment and will the new manager want or play them if they dont fit in his system are we wasteing money again like with bently and is the management beleiveing it knows more about players and football in general undermining our team more than the manager who was doing the job at the time . next season i doubt we will get near the highs of the last season and we wont finish in the top four so its a bad decision to change things in my eyes but i hope i get proved wrong .coys
Great article, the mirror are really getting on my nerves recently, with pro harry anti spurs propeganda… their stories are just that stories, cheap lazy journalism… we should try to get #boycottthemirror trending
well i have to say i enjoyed reading your article and i liked how u went in2 detail. im sick of the press printing crap about how we are in crisis and how we are guna fail, listen what levy did was brave and he obviously has his reasons and its obviously guna beneft our club. harry was employed 2 do a job and he did it, cus i see harry taking us further? ummm no, the man was tactically shite, loved the media, his head swayed and lets be honest he didnt rotate at all. thats just a few, im grateful for wot he did do we played some of the most amazing football, we were a delight to watch and as a life long spurs fan ive not seen that in time, i was gutted we missed the champs league a team like us should be challenging for the that! i was wounded we lost our 3rd place and heart broken we lost it to the scum.. when we were so clear in the table right behind united and city. lets not give up on AVB yet, lets give him a chance, we are a diff club 2 chelski and not only that we have pace and young quality.. im not settling for a 6/7 finish but a top 4.. we have 2 remain positive and do what we do best and cheer on r club nd support them, it aint easy being a spurs fan but thats how we show we are real fans.. so come on you spurs let the media print shit cus we just say in levy we trust… COYS