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It is evident that Harry is just not going to get 100% backing from Spurs fans and the question is 'why?'. Would we start to change our thinking if we beat Arsenal at the weekend? Probably not! Many fans including myself have carried on like battered old house wives since Jol's unwanted departure. It doesn't achieve much, but lets put it this way, the Jol debate will continue as long we have a Manager that doesn't adopt the same kind of Spurs footballing philosophies and approach he had. He in essence, was the modern Bill Nicholson that typified everything Spurs; from the way the a Manager conducts himself with the media, his relationship with the fans to the way in which the football is played.
Fans still bleat on about Jol as he had a vision that was widely documented in a number of his interviews where he says he was looking to blend Spurs' push and run style of the 60's with the Dutch Total Football. To me that sounds awesome! Whereas Harry arguably doesn't seem to have any clear philosophy, hence numerous debates wondering what it is with no definitive answer. Was is not Jol that employed Ricardo Moniz to implement the Coerver’s method and the core of his philosophy and whom now works alongside Jol at Hamburg?
These aforementioned philosophies are part of the tapestry of THFC and by moaning about fans having this expectation it is not going to go away as its some of the reasons of what makes Tottenham Tottenham. Not only through Jols tenure young fans will have seen a strain of 'audere est facere' in the bland 90's (where THFC are concerned) - from the unsuccessful management of Ossie to the excitement of the Klinnsman era and when Ginola graced the Lane. I'm sure the Spurs football philosophies - even if it was a subconscious decision - is why many fans started supporting Spurs in the first place.
These falsely typecasted 'moaning spurs fans' and there are a lot of them, do tell you something very interesting about Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and what it stands for. Perhaps these so called 'never satisfied' fans should be embraced for having such high standards???....Ok I guess they won't! Perhaps these standards aren't realistic and in the modern money football world where results are key? Interestingly it shows as a whole, what THFC in the past and continues to stand for, also what its striving to achieve in terms of values and football philosophy.
As much as I think we should give Harry our support, unfortunately he will NEVER fall in the Tottenham ideals and traditions. Jol typified everything about Spurs, so until he returns or someone can fit the bill, and there is no reason to think why Jol wouldn't return going by the fact every other tom-dick-and-harry has returned in the last transfer window and the fact he has even hinted at a possible return in the future these Jol debates will ALWAYS continue to re-surface.
Still, we can all debate on Spurs' dealings in the last transfer window, overall Harry has done a 'triffic' job given the circumstances, even with certain problem positions not rectified, albiet the intention to address this was clear and as much as I was not keane on Keane returning he and the other signings can only overall improve the squad and ensure we stay in top flight football. For this and the fact he is our Manager, we need to get behind him and team for the rest of the season and only then assess what the situation is then.
Fans still bleat on about Jol as he had a vision that was widely documented in a number of his interviews where he says he was looking to blend Spurs' push and run style of the 60's with the Dutch Total Football. To me that sounds awesome! Whereas Harry arguably doesn't seem to have any clear philosophy, hence numerous debates wondering what it is with no definitive answer. Was is not Jol that employed Ricardo Moniz to implement the Coerver’s method and the core of his philosophy and whom now works alongside Jol at Hamburg?
These aforementioned philosophies are part of the tapestry of THFC and by moaning about fans having this expectation it is not going to go away as its some of the reasons of what makes Tottenham Tottenham. Not only through Jols tenure young fans will have seen a strain of 'audere est facere' in the bland 90's (where THFC are concerned) - from the unsuccessful management of Ossie to the excitement of the Klinnsman era and when Ginola graced the Lane. I'm sure the Spurs football philosophies - even if it was a subconscious decision - is why many fans started supporting Spurs in the first place.
These falsely typecasted 'moaning spurs fans' and there are a lot of them, do tell you something very interesting about Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and what it stands for. Perhaps these so called 'never satisfied' fans should be embraced for having such high standards???....Ok I guess they won't! Perhaps these standards aren't realistic and in the modern money football world where results are key? Interestingly it shows as a whole, what THFC in the past and continues to stand for, also what its striving to achieve in terms of values and football philosophy.
As much as I think we should give Harry our support, unfortunately he will NEVER fall in the Tottenham ideals and traditions. Jol typified everything about Spurs, so until he returns or someone can fit the bill, and there is no reason to think why Jol wouldn't return going by the fact every other tom-dick-and-harry has returned in the last transfer window and the fact he has even hinted at a possible return in the future these Jol debates will ALWAYS continue to re-surface.
Still, we can all debate on Spurs' dealings in the last transfer window, overall Harry has done a 'triffic' job given the circumstances, even with certain problem positions not rectified, albiet the intention to address this was clear and as much as I was not keane on Keane returning he and the other signings can only overall improve the squad and ensure we stay in top flight football. For this and the fact he is our Manager, we need to get behind him and team for the rest of the season and only then assess what the situation is then.
