Thursday, August 23, 2007

Is Spurs The ~New~ Newcastle?

While we still have to see if Sam Allardyce will bring stability to one of the clowniest, if not -the- joke team in the English Premiership, Tottenham Hotspur seems eager to take over the mantle!

After having continuously signed numerous players with potential (but who never seemed to realise any of it), they have now started the season with only 1 win out of 3 games (and that against the sheep of Derby), 'star' players on the bench getting unhappy, and a messy managerial debacle unfolding.

Martin Jol has, admittedly, done a nice little job of making sure Spurs are among the Top FIVE English Premiership clubs the past couple of seasons, but the club has really flattered to deceive. The jolly big fella has also been questionable on the transfer market, buying a number of decent but ultimately average players who will never walk into any of the other real Top Four English Permiership teams. Except for Berbatov. But he will leave soon anyway.

Now with the Tottenham board making a boo-boo with the failed acquisition of Sevilla coach Ramos and subsequent denials, Jol has been ordered to deliver nothing less than a Champions League place by the end of the season. Rest assured, if he were still to be around by then, he would face nothing but the sack.

Because Spurs will never crack the Top Four with Martin Jol around.

They play some nice football in spurts, but ultimately they lack any real class and Jol lacks the tactical genius or ability of a Mourinho or even Ferguson.

At the rate they are going, pretty soon we might see Newcastle-ish antics like players fighting on the pitch, continued gaffes from current England No. 1 Paul Robinson, and midget-sized headless chickens like Robbie Keane and Jermaine Defoe pairing up, running rings round defenders but not knowing where the goal is.

They should have gotten rid of Martin Jol earlier. He was never going to bring the club anywhere.

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