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Jah Lush

Jah Lush

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Revealing article on the debacle at Spurs and in particular AVB's deteriorating relationship with Levy.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/10521678/Tottenham-chairman-Daniel-Levy-and-manager-Andre-Villas-Boas-had-become-distant.html

Bluerevolution

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The football supporting public has said that its sympathy for a chairman who spent ?100m before sacking the manager four months later is holding steady at absolutely zero.


After sacking manager Andres Villas-boas after yesterday?s home defeat to Liverpool, football fans outside of White Hart Lane have insisted they literally could not be less bothered by the issues facing Daniel Levy.


?Sure, I?ll bet spending ?100m on players and finding yourself in lowly 7th place is desperately upsetting for Daniel Levy ? it?s just that frankly I would struggle to give less of a shit.?


?I?m sure that in a world of millionaires kicking a bag of air around a field he was ?left with no choice?, but all I see is a spoiled man-child spitting his dummy out because the other mega-rich people won?t let his team win.?


?But what he has done in sacking a manager with the highest win percentage of any Tottenham manager in a hundred years is ensure any football-loving fan across the nation will revel in their misfortune for at least a couple of years.?


AVB sacked by Tottenham


Fans of the club have expressed disappointment at the way the season has gone, given the promises from the chairman just a couple of months ago.


Season ticket holder Shane Goldberg told us, ?When Daniel Levy said he would turn Spurs in a club like Chelsea, we thought he meant on the pitch ? not the boardroom.?


?But I suppose we?ve got start somewhere. Maybe John Terry could start screwing a few of our players partners??


?I?ll give Levy the benefit of the doubt, as if there?s one thing football has taught us in the premier league era, it?s that repeatedly changing your manager on the chairman?s whim is a sure-fire recipe for success.?


One the search for a new manager, Goldberg concluded, ?Well I hear Harry Redknapp is looking for a way back into the Premier League??

Jah Lush

Jah Lush

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I still haven't forgiven Levy for the disgraceful way he sacked Martin Jol, a thoroughly decent man and a bloody good manager despite his recent sacking at Craven Cottage.


Anyway, Tim Sherwood is taking charge of first team matters for the time being. Should be an interesting night on Wednesday.

Parkdrive

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In between have a chuckle at Sperz implosion, interesting that Baldini, and Levy, and not forgetting the players, seemed to have got away scot free. The old saying "be careful what you wish for" should be heeded by the Sperz board, they got rid of Jol, who was doing a decent job, and got in One Day Ramos. Have to say though I thought it was only a matter of time before AVB was sacked.
Jah Lush

Jah Lush

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I'd definitely have Glenn Hoddle back.


Great article here in today's Telegraph about the breakdown between Levy and AVB.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/10521678/Tottenham-chairman-Daniel-Levy-and-manager-Andre-Villas-Boas-had-become-distant.html

Jah Lush

Jah Lush

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He had a big problem with the kerb crawler David Pleat at the time who was director of football. Also, hopefully Glenn's man management skills have improved since then too. His last management job at Wolves was a big mistake but there's no doubt Glenn's coaching talents and footballing philosophy have been somewhat underused.
red devil

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If Spurs insist on having a Tecnical Director, I think Hoddle would be better suited to that role rather than manager. The TD seems to have more say on which players are bought/sold anyway.

Agree with PD that Levy gets away scot free. He's the guy who's been hiring all these managers in the first place, surely that shows poor judgement on his part.

It will be interesting to see what formation Spurs play tonight. The high backline/pressing game only works if you've got quick defenders and a settled back four. Southampton have used it well early season, but it's a high tempo system, and with their limited squad I think it's now physically catching up with them, other clubs are also now working out how to play against it...

maxxi

maxxi

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maxxi Wrote:

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> El Pibe Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > pop my bubble of denial why don't you, I

> thought

> > this was the season of goodwill...

>

>

>

> There's still the irrational but permanent

> optimism endemic in following the Irons - the

> glimmer that a team of kids, the ignored and

> frustrated, the unfit and the workaday players

> might play out of their skins against Spurs :)


Oh yes!


Why you should never let anyone pop your bubble EP - and why BFS making 7 changes inspired the players (despite himself) to show the ignorant sod that they are better off when he DOESN'T want to win a game.


:) :) :)

Jah Lush

Jah Lush

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Nearly ?1,500 for a season ticket in the West Stand at Spurs and I still have to pay for Cup games. ?79 last night and ?25 each for the Europa Cup ties so far. It's a very long time since you could just turn up at the turnstiles and pay a few bob to get in and I've been at Spurs when there's been over 70,000 crammed into out little ground. We need to start building that new stadium NOW if we want to earn the revenue that pays players the sort of obscene wages they earn these days.


I said on here a few weeks back that things could get a whole lot worse before they got better and I wasn't wrong was I. It's never easy being a Spurs fan. It's the hope that kills you.


Anyway, I'm going to Dulwich Hamlet on Saturday to watch some proper football and hope that my recent run of bad luck doesn't put the voodoo on 'em.


Happy Christmas everyone and good luck to West Ham in the cup.

????

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red devil Wrote:

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> And Mars bars were bigger too. What was that as a

> % of your take home salary, and how does that

> stack up with today's prices/salary?..


False maths as my salary is significantly more but if I was 28 today it wouldn't be as high as it is as ....er...an oldie. If you reall want to know, just use an inflation calculator for ?110 in 1991 to today. i haven't got time right now.

maxxi

maxxi

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red devil Wrote:

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> Hammerettes, you do realise that by winning last

> night it's given BFW a stay of execution...


Though it's ironic the win came when BFS didn't care or prepare for a win (because he thought that would adversely affect the game at Old Trafford at the weekend - and that losing said OT game would make a mockery of Allardicci's foresight) it's true the tactics (hang on for 80 minutes, shove on a couple of subs and see if you can nick it at the end - oh, and try a long ball or two when the opposition are knackered) were his.


Problem is we're not going to play a team with such a poor defense very often.


With that in mind I hear a polite request has gone in to Tottenham Hotspur FC from the West Ham board that, bearing in mind the current economic climate and subject to official FA & Premier League ratification, they (West Ham) be allowed to play them (Tottenham Hotspur) every week. :)



And after being scathing of Maiga all season I am now backing him to achieve a miracle transformation into a top goal-scorer*


*or, a goal scorer.

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