With small and subtle improvements in Tottenham Hotspur’s performance against dogged and resilient Burnley in our midweek EFL Cup victory, simply put, Nuno Espirito Santo’s side will have to be a hell of a lot better as we go up against Manchester United on Saturday.
Welcoming under fire Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to White Hart Lane is going to be no easy task at all given the form we are in and unfortunately for us, the fact they are on a run of four without a win means we can expect some kind of reaction from them. If we click again like we did at the very beginning of the campaign, defend well and be clinical (albeit not quite flowing) in attack, we can get back to winning ways here, but that’s easier said than done.
Perform as we have done in some matches this year, and if they give Ole a response, this one could be quite painful.
TQ … As you suggest, he will probably start focusing on our league position when we hit the bottom three …. let’s hope it’s not too late by then. Oh, happy days. That’s about as optimistic as I can get at the moment. : – )
Re Levey, I must agree with some who said that we need to remember where we were prior to the Enic take over, the problem is that it looks like we’re headed back there.
In his defence Mr Levey didn’t actually want Nuno as our manager and had to be convinced by Paraticis.
I fear that it seems that project has gone wrong as Nuno hasn’t lived up to expectations.
However where Mr Levey has failed, for me, is over focusing and spending on the stadium, to the detriment of player recruitment and contracts.
There are a few things I cannot actually blame him for.
Who couldve forseen that Sessingnon would end up a poor player and Doherty was banging in goals from his RB position, it was actually a fair return, at one stage he was keeping Coleman out of the Irish National team, but just like Sess he joined Spurs and has become a bit of a nightmare.
Players leave our team and suddenly become decent, Lamella and Froyth are fair examples.
Even the much maligned Mourinho used to win trophies for every team he was at, whether the fans liked him or not, but not for Spurs.
As I said in an earlier post, we actually do (on paper) have a very decent first 11 or so who on their day could beat any team, but coaching, fitness, attitude, mentality, management, all of those listed things or is it, the Spurs Curse.
I simply can’t find a plausible answer for our current flux.
I’m heading to the same conclusion Niall….seems we are cursed since the move to the new stadium. Isn’t there some sort of tradition about putting a pile of salt in each corner of a building to ward of evil spirits? I guess someone forgot to factor this in when the stadium was opened. :- )
After the last few home games and away losses… Has justified my decision (inc some health issues) to not renew my season ticket at Spurs. We have Levy who has made big mistakes and trying to avoid spending on players over 9 years and build a property emipre of a stadium / training ground. HK10 is replaying the ericsson saga and 6 managers refused to join us even G potter said it’s because of levy and the dressing room is in poor state of unity. We are again the laughing stock of the PL…Not good to have a magnificent stadium and a team / manager playing like league 2 division quality.
So where do we go now?? New manager ? who reads the riot act read to players?
The only solution that seems obvious is to forget new managers, new players, etc. Any new players and any new manager will immediately be tainted by the glare of the evil eye that has be caste over the cursed new stadium with its artisanal brews and bourgeois tints.
We need an exorcist. We need someone who can banish the evil spirits, to counter the evil eye. We may be living in the 21st century, but the club is under a curse that needs to be spit out into the abyss that has no bottom, that can be relegated until the lowest level of the inferno has been left behind.
Bring in a benzedeiro, a voodoo priest, a bruxa, and dancing defiler of all that is innocent and good.
Cleanse with fire and brimstone. Chant down babylon.
Uncover the buried NFL pitch and build a huge bonfire and boil roiled toils and troubles in a cauldron with three witches each choking on a newts tail, stirred with a rail and buried under the ice of fallen hail.
Have the changing room lads and ladies collect all of the soiled] underpants of the players after the worst match (which now is every match) and boil them under a full moon in a froth of coagulated blood mixed with absinthe and throw in the missing ear of a French painter.
Nothing less can save this club from the curses brought on by Daniel and Joseph, who dared not to dare, but instead to stare at their toenail clipping piled on the books of accountants who confuse silver slabs for value.
Your books of pluses and minuses will save you not from the wrath of spurned horseman’s spurs.
Be spirited off to he depths of Hades and when you turn your head to look backwards to try to understand your failures, your eyes will be gauged and eaten by worms.
In short: Remove the curse from our home and return football, which is what we are meant to see.
Pity the holy ghost who came to be sacrificed on the rubble of what once was a proud football club. He did not bring the curse, but he didn’t recognize it either. He cannot be our exorcist. We need someone of pure heart in the face of the evil that has been residing amongst us. A pure name alone is not sufficient when we seek our next manager.
We need the return of joy to N17. Technical knowledge will not solve the problem. We need joyous play and a sense that decency is to be created by how we play. the pure joy of playing football for the sake of creating beauty must be returned. we need to play with the joy of innocent children, not the cynicism of middle aged accountants. misery makes for horrible football. banish the sense of misery and create a place that focuses on the joy of playing well.
We demand that misery be replaced by beauty. the rest will take care of itself once this is accomplished. The quality we need in management from top to bottom is a sense of joy in what is being built on the pitch. Only joy and beauty can overcome the deep malaise under which our pitch is now deeply buried.
Life is simply really. When we dare, we really can do. Dare to be joyous. Dare to enjoy. Dare to do.
Well I have to say this has been entirely predictable. How has this happened??? Well cast your memories back to the poch rein, poch came to the club and took 12-18 months to stamp his believes both on and off the pitch and to get rid of the dross out of the club. We became a team to be feared no more soft touch bullshit of a club, yes we came up short in terms winning the title and cups but look where he brought the the club on shoestring budget compared to the clubs we where competing against. Except( leicester). But the downfall was utter incompetence from our chairman not backing poch on players he wanted and the players he wanted out of the club. In my mind we fluked our way to a champions league final that team and squad where in major decline. That summer poch said of a painful rebuild but unfortunately it was to little to late as poch got the sack. Enter Mourinho, I said from the start levy panicked bringing in a man in decline along with a squad. Bergqwin signed by the club but not a Mourinho signing his words not mine that sums up who actually has the power. The Mourinho rein ends just as it started going nowhere. Our new incumbent the 10th choice manager, what a shambolic attempt to sort the football club out. Nuno had no business getting the job but such is our standing among young upcomiming managers ie Potter, Rodgers, they wouldn’t work with that clown Levy dictating every aspect of the football team, sucking the blood from everything that’s good. This team is a midtable team going nowhere win one lose the next and on it goes. The simple truth is until enic sell up and gets the f**k out of town this is how it will stay. I’ve actually gone past the stage of anger with this shower. The fans should start chanting stand up if you hate Daniel Levy at the next game.
Sorry for the silly ranting, mates. but I’m really disgusted by the miserable play that is ours these days. Refuse the misery. Demand the simplicity of joyous play. That’s the way it’s supposed to be at Spurs. We play joyous football. The rest is trivial.
We’ll not find joy with Daniel Levy. that much is clear. Chant down the Babylon of Daniel Levy. Demand a team that brings joy to the stadium.
The bottom line is a false foundation, The bottom line is a foundation without joy. All Daniel Levy knows is the bottom line.
“Spurs have one of the great stadiums and all it cost them was the team.”
I’m not sure that’s true WW, we have invested in players……but just the wrong ones!
TQ …. A question …. do you have problems with the FA Player streams? I tried watching an FA Cup semi-final (City v Chelsea) and it kept dropping out. I gave up in the end but I’ll try to watch the replay tomorrow.
Hi Geof, I’ve not had any issues with the FA Player of late but it was a bit iffy when it first appeared. The match was shown by BBC here so I didn’t need to use it.
BTW…….it was sad to see Alana Kennedy not even make the subs bench for City, I’m not aware of her being injured, maybe she was late back from the international break.
Geof….just checked out the player stream for the Charlton v Sunderland game and it was fine. The 2 FA Cup semi’s are commentary only here on the player as they are both live on TV.
Just read Nuno has been sacked…..can anyone confirm????….coys
Nono job is been considered. I dont think anyone mentioned about the opposition tactics against us, we are predictable and play defensively counter attack.
They can get back into position due to our slow build up, we never sustain any decent pressure as our mentality is defensively minded.
Nuno has been sacked. The Portuguese has been relieved of his duties as Tottenham Hotspur manager. #THFC #COYS…..re prem inside on Twitter
Genuine request for help with my crossword people, clue is:
Gloomy supporters will, if their team’s doing badly.
C_E____S_ (9)
Nothing reported as far as I can see 62.