With three Premier League defeats on the spin, Tottenham Hotspur fans are again asking serious questions about our style of play and the spirit in the dressing room under marmite manager Jose Mourinho. No doubt for some, one big question is will this simply get worse on Sunday afternoon as we welcome Sam Allardyce’s struggling West Bromwich Albion to White Hart Lane.
Our style wasn’t too bad at the beginning of the season but whether or not it’s Mourinho’s instructions, the sheer number of games that we have played or something else, it long hasn’t clicked now and our attempts at grinding out 1-0 victories is completely undone by our failure to remain tight at the back.
We go into Sunday’s clash sat in eighth place in the PL table and irrespective of the fact we are again missing Harry Kane through injury, there can be no doubts that we have regressed as an attacking force.
It’s been a strange old season when you look at results across the division, but we look half the side we were even a month ago. On paper, West Brom sat almost bottom of the table should be the perfect boost we need to get ourselves up and running again, but after the Brighton showing, few will be confident of that.
Ho hum, I’ll be hiding behind the settee with a stiff drink.
The energy and pressing in the Manu/Everton game makes ours look absolutely pedestrian.
TQ I think you nailed the problem, we look pedestrian, the last time we looked that way was under Villas Bias, funnily enough JM’s understudy, nothing learned then.
My favourite manager was Arry Rednapp, just loved the guy, loved the Transfer day with him in the landrover having just run over Sandra, on his way to sign the likes of Van der Vart.
Best manager: Arthur Rowe. Innovative, exciting.
Best manager: yet to arrive! the future is open.
wow Ekkaboy, you’re memory goes back to when I was four years old. I’m impressed by the historical memory. Give and Go! Now we”ve got pass backwards at all costs.
I hate it when my fingers do the typing and my head fails to keep up. Your memory…
but wow, Ekkaboy, Give and go from 1950. Much impressed. Stop and pass out of bounds is the JM way.
Yes TK. The old “push and run”. No real stars but exciting to watch. My father was a friend of Arthur Rowe. We lodged Spurs trialists. We had season tickets from 1947. ( cost 2 guineas for 22 matches as I remember. Bit more expensive these days!).
21 matches. 2 bob a game for seat in the stand!!
To put that ‘old money’ memory further into perspective… Mourinho is on an annual Spurs income of £15 million… He earns more in a week than the British PM does in a year…
One is running (ruining) the country through a pandemic and the other is ruining the game of football via THFC… And I wish they would both just run away!
One is a complete twat, and the other is……… A complete twat!
But apart from all that, everything is rosey. Everything is fine….
Up the Spurs!
Up yours, Jose!
And these 3 former Spurs players. And all 3, as innovative and progressive thinking football managers and coaches…
Namely; Arthur Rowe, Bill Nicholson and Sir Alf Ramsey, would all be turning in their graves if they could witness what THFC’s brand of football looks like right now
When Bill Nicholson joined Spurs in 1936, as a 17 year old. He earned £2 a week… Not bad eh?
Of course this is all before my time as a Spurs man…
Back to the future…
Hands up, who’s looking forward to todays match…
3rd time of trying to write and send a post…
Niall just a small point.. Harry R. did not sIgn VDV it was a surprise by levy who did all the work with R Madrid and agents.
Spurs players must show a massive improvement in today’s game, with Jose team selection and subs timing better as well. A 3421 shape will show attacking play, and fast movement of players and passing to be accurate and ball control first time not 2nd or 3rd touch. Jose has to change his mindset of trying to play total defence.. it’s not working ! COYS
Quite honestly I obviously don’t want us to lose but I definitely want to see the back of Mourinho. Please for God’s sake let us field an attacking team and go out to actually try win the damn thing. I see there are suggestions of winks starting along side Hoj…why I ask, if it happens, what difference would winks make?
That just seems like a sideways step to try and disguise this idiots insane pursuit of continually lacking the balls to attack a game. I hope the media is wrong in that instance. Lloris, Davies,Toby, Rodon and Aurier, ONE HOLDING MIDFIELDER being Hoj, Sonny on the left, Ndombele, Alli (wishful thinking), Bale, yes Bale on the right and then Vinicius or Kane if he is properly fit. I live in hope.
Today’s starting eleven:
Lloris (C), Aurier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Davies, Hojbjerg, Ndombele, Lamela, Lucas, Son, Kane.
Subs:
Hart Doherty Rodon Dier Sissoko Bergwijn Bale Scarlett Vinicius
Good to see kane back, just hope he hasn’t been brought back too quickly.
Winks not even on the bench Andre, bit odd, is he injured?
Exactly Andre,
We’ve all been saying one holding midfielder for quite some time, you are preaching to the converted. 🙂
OMG, WTF, what an attacking line up! Has someone else picked the team. We should walk this on. 4-0 to Spurs and Mourinosaurus saves his job and we start to climb the table again. From 1st to 9th in just over a month is no joke. Just hope Harry K. is fully fit. Shows how much we rely on one player. Normally, he would have been on the bench at the most. Trouble is, he is our best attacker, midfielder and defender. (Probably goalkeeper too!)
Someone needs to tell Allardyce, that his WBA team will never get out of the relegation zone by playing like Spurs.
Except that they are parking the bus a lot better than we have in the last 3 games…
Give Bale a run out and maybe we will eventually score a goal or 4… We need some width out there!
I know it’s only West Brom, but at least it’s a much better performance, which I’m pleased about, the only negative is it will Joses wont be getting the sack.