As a Tottenham Hotspur fan, you get pretty used to reading endless and often pointless speculation surrounding potential and current players, and let’s face it, the media have to report on something, however loose it may be.
Writer: Pez
It was truly awful seeing Jan Vertonghen so down on himself midweek following his early and clearly disappointing substitution. And being on such public display for all the world to see, Vertonghen’s evident misery was always going to be a hot topic of debate, I get that!
What I don’t get though particularly for a Tottenham legend like Jan – for he is one without a shred of doubt – is the unsavoury and unappetising notion of how quickly certain people have been to write such a fantastic footballer off? Again you may well expect this from opposition fans looking for quick and cutting put-downs but from our own? Seriously? Some so-called Spurs fans really grate on me with their narrow and small-minded opinions. But hey, this is nothing new…these are probably the very same critics so willing to write off Keiron Trippier, the same ones always giving it to Eric Dier irrespective of how he actually performs, the same who chastised and hounded Moussa Sissoko for so long before it became so overwhelming apparent what a huge player he has since become whilst sporting the Cockerel.
Indeed we can go on and on just look at the ugly and frankly offensive treatment of Christian Eriksen, who let’s face it, has been outstanding in his overall contribution to Tottenham’s cause. One of the latest to be hammered, despite now continually growing in stature since Mourinho’s arrival, is the intensely robust Serge Aurier (who actually I have to say is really growing on me more and more now). Let’s face it here, even the prodigious and uniquely talented abilities of Dele Alli are all so readily undermined and called into question in certain quarters – if he is quiet or has an off day as though he has nothing left to offer?
But all this is just reactionary and ridiculous nonsense which bears very little comparison with the truth, much less reality, it’s just knee-jerk critique with no real substance. This may not be Jan Vertonghen’s finest hour, his best season or stand out form, but that doesn’t mean he’s necessarily finished either as some are all to quick to divine! And in much the same manner, neither has this been the greatest of season’s for Spurs, but do we then just give up now, say it pointless turning up for the CL, that FA cup is unrealistic, or that a top four place in the Premier League is already beyond our cloying grasp?
Please doom-mongers, crawl back under dark rocks and utter dank profanities no more. If there are criticism’s to be made, for me they rest with both chairman and board in not supplanting enough support where and when necessary, like for example the failure to yet again bring in a striker when so clearly needed one – but surely any Tottenham fan must readily acknowledge that these are long-established issues faced too many times before.
Before I stray off point, however, I’ll get back to SuperJan, who if any remember his dazzling CL brilliance just a season behind the present one, will surely give notion to giving time to one who has given so much to THFC as a player before so readily and perhaps too prematurely putting him out to pasture before his time is really up!
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