- Feb 13, 2012
- 4,487
- 14,648
Hey.
I've done a massive stat review of our season if anyone's interested.
Took ages so would be nice if someone read it
http://thebigripple.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/tottenham-201314-stats-disharmony.html
Here's a sample to whet the whistle:
'Well, Saint, it's a game of two halves.'
So said erstwhile Tottenham legend Jimmy Greaves to his TV partner Ian St John way back when. And for Tottenham, the season 2013/14 was a season of two halves; a season of Villas Boas and Sherwood, a season of selling Elvis and buying the Beatles only for them to disband & start staging naked love-ins, a season of transition & settling in & of disagreements & disharmony right the way through to the bitterly disjointed end.
On paper the successes, or lack of them, weren't too dissimilar to seasons prior. Nearly but not quite, although the nearly became 'nowhere nearly' and the not quite became 'not at all.' A surfeit of organisation countered by a void of goals characterised the early months until the plan went more than awry at the Etihad. Limping on until a dismantling by an ascendant Liverpool, the departure of Villas-Boas mid way through was nonetheless unexpected & i've maintained since that he was less pushed and more agreeably escorted from his office. Never before have I sensed a man's fate be so clearly apparent as was his during that game & particularly in the subsequent interview. Wearing the redundant air of a man choosing to quit before he was fired, I suspect the final meeting was quick & painless, along the lines of 'I'm going' & 'Yes, you are.'
Left with an unforeseen vacancy, Chief Dan Levy cast his net far & wide & found a barren ocean of managerial fish so thawed out a fish finger from the freezer in Tim Sherwood and let things be. Also thawed out was Adebayor, the mercurial striker arriving with vigour & panache whilst as time went on others were cast back to the sea. The existence of the elusive 'Lamela Mermaid' remains, to this day, unproven.
I've done a massive stat review of our season if anyone's interested.
Took ages so would be nice if someone read it
http://thebigripple.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/tottenham-201314-stats-disharmony.html
Here's a sample to whet the whistle:
'Well, Saint, it's a game of two halves.'
So said erstwhile Tottenham legend Jimmy Greaves to his TV partner Ian St John way back when. And for Tottenham, the season 2013/14 was a season of two halves; a season of Villas Boas and Sherwood, a season of selling Elvis and buying the Beatles only for them to disband & start staging naked love-ins, a season of transition & settling in & of disagreements & disharmony right the way through to the bitterly disjointed end.
On paper the successes, or lack of them, weren't too dissimilar to seasons prior. Nearly but not quite, although the nearly became 'nowhere nearly' and the not quite became 'not at all.' A surfeit of organisation countered by a void of goals characterised the early months until the plan went more than awry at the Etihad. Limping on until a dismantling by an ascendant Liverpool, the departure of Villas-Boas mid way through was nonetheless unexpected & i've maintained since that he was less pushed and more agreeably escorted from his office. Never before have I sensed a man's fate be so clearly apparent as was his during that game & particularly in the subsequent interview. Wearing the redundant air of a man choosing to quit before he was fired, I suspect the final meeting was quick & painless, along the lines of 'I'm going' & 'Yes, you are.'
Left with an unforeseen vacancy, Chief Dan Levy cast his net far & wide & found a barren ocean of managerial fish so thawed out a fish finger from the freezer in Tim Sherwood and let things be. Also thawed out was Adebayor, the mercurial striker arriving with vigour & panache whilst as time went on others were cast back to the sea. The existence of the elusive 'Lamela Mermaid' remains, to this day, unproven.