kaz Hirai
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- Nov 5, 2008
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Anyone who knows me will attest that I love AVB and make no attempt to hide it. Personally I can’t think of any manager I would rather see in charge of my beloved Tottenham Hotspur than Andre Villas-Boas. He’s got style, class, and unshakable desire to succeed.
So why the hell are we trying to chase him out of our cub?
Don’t get me wrong, I accept that of late we haven’t been performing to the standard that a ‘top four’ team should, but to my mind I can’t think of a more catastrophic error than sacking Villas-Boas, even after the Etihad nightmare on Sunday.
We’ve all read articles this week about how he’s the bookies favourite to be the next manager to lose his job, about how the players all hate him, and about Spurs missing Gareth Bale.
To my mind I can’t think of a more catastrophic error than sacking Villas-Boas, even after the Etihad nightmare on Sunday
The thing is though, I and the vast majority of fans don’t care what makes back page headlines, I’m far too battle hardened to let any ‘exclusive’ in The Sun worry me or indeed change my opinion. What does bother me however, is when our ‘fans’ start demanding a revolution and calling for heads to roll.
Not only is this public witch-hunt detrimental to the team, it’s preposterous to comprehend where some of them are coming from.
I spoke to a fellow Yid in a builders merchants today, who watched Sunday’s debacle with two City fans and a Gooner, He asked me: “Do you think he’ll go?” to which I replied: “It’ll be the worst thing we could do.”
He cast a bewildered figure and the expression upon his face forewarned me that he was about to cut me down. Instead his response rejuvenated me, it filled me with hope and restored my faith in all of Spurs-kind “I dunno about that” he responded “But you’ve gotta’ stand by your club haven’t you?”
Amongst other things we spoke about, mainly reminiscing about the response after the 5-1 defeat by City at home not too long ago, and debating who would score our 8th goal when we thump United on Sunday, we both agreed that we as a collective have come a very long way in a short space of time.
This result may serve as a wake-up call and be the catalyst that our support needs. He poetically and elegantly mused that: “Some of them forget just how s**t we were.”
That in a nutshell is the basis of my argument. Comparable to seasons in the not too distance past, this is far from crap, this is joyously flourishing.
The first season that I can properly remember was the 2003-04 season, I was about eight and under the stewardship of David ‘Chimbomba’ Pleat we had just recorded a finish of 14th, and if those dizzying heights of mid table mediocrity weren’t enough for me to savour and brag in the school yard at break time, we had also thrown away a 3 goal advantage against a ten man Man City in the F.A Cup.
This result may serve as a wake-up call and be the catalyst that our support needs.
That is the quintessential Spurs that any true fan understands and to a certain degree cherishes. For every Ricky Vila in 1981 there is a John Macken in 2004. For every Danny Blanchflower there is a Johnathan Blondel and for every Glenn Hoddle there is Ben Thatcher. With Spurs, and to be fair the lion share of other teams, you have to take the rough with the smooth.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t aim high and expect the best, they are equally as Spursy as failing. Nor am I trying to sound defeatist. I’m merely asking that AVB’s era be judge by all recent seasons not just one particularly pleasant one.
Furthermore, to anyone who thinks that AVB’s sacking would ratify with instant and tangible success, who replaces him?
Who can we genuinely go out and get that would be an improvement? There are some laughable suggestions floating around Brian Laudrup, Jurgen Klinsmann, and most ridiculously of all a return for Harry Redknapp.
Many people suggest that we are not as good now as we were under good ‘arry, that may be so, but think of the players that have left us in that meantime, Ledley King, Luka Modric, Rafeal Van Der Vaart and Gareth Bale. (4 truly World Class players while they were here, not potentially world class, actual World Class.)
Furthermore, to anyone who thinks that AVB’s sacking would ratify with instant and tangible success, who replaces him? Who can we genuinely go out and get that would be an improvement?
Redknapp was lucky enough to have arrived at a time when expectations were low, and inherited a squad of decent quality, true he may have brought them along but the squad more or less remained constant in his time. Now compare that to the task at hand for AVB.
All four of said players have since left, and AVB has had to buy and bond an almost entirely new squad.
Fundamentally AVB is a better manager, and for those of you that use stats to berate him and promote Redknapp, here is one you may like, I’ll put it as brutally honest and as devastatingly simply as I can.
In his fledgling career as a coach Villas Boas has won three trophies. In Redknapp’s twenty plus year tenure as a manager he has only won one, he has also taken two teams down.
Calling for Redknapp now is like waking up next to Fearne Cotton, and pining for Fern Britain.
I’m not asking for much, just keep the faith!!
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from the fighting cock and I could not agree more with everything written above. All these snide AVB remarks in every thread, so fickle its comical
So why the hell are we trying to chase him out of our cub?
Don’t get me wrong, I accept that of late we haven’t been performing to the standard that a ‘top four’ team should, but to my mind I can’t think of a more catastrophic error than sacking Villas-Boas, even after the Etihad nightmare on Sunday.We’ve all read articles this week about how he’s the bookies favourite to be the next manager to lose his job, about how the players all hate him, and about Spurs missing Gareth Bale.
To my mind I can’t think of a more catastrophic error than sacking Villas-Boas, even after the Etihad nightmare on Sunday
The thing is though, I and the vast majority of fans don’t care what makes back page headlines, I’m far too battle hardened to let any ‘exclusive’ in The Sun worry me or indeed change my opinion. What does bother me however, is when our ‘fans’ start demanding a revolution and calling for heads to roll.
Not only is this public witch-hunt detrimental to the team, it’s preposterous to comprehend where some of them are coming from.
I spoke to a fellow Yid in a builders merchants today, who watched Sunday’s debacle with two City fans and a Gooner, He asked me: “Do you think he’ll go?” to which I replied: “It’ll be the worst thing we could do.”
He cast a bewildered figure and the expression upon his face forewarned me that he was about to cut me down. Instead his response rejuvenated me, it filled me with hope and restored my faith in all of Spurs-kind “I dunno about that” he responded “But you’ve gotta’ stand by your club haven’t you?”
Amongst other things we spoke about, mainly reminiscing about the response after the 5-1 defeat by City at home not too long ago, and debating who would score our 8th goal when we thump United on Sunday, we both agreed that we as a collective have come a very long way in a short space of time.
This result may serve as a wake-up call and be the catalyst that our support needs. He poetically and elegantly mused that: “Some of them forget just how s**t we were.”
That in a nutshell is the basis of my argument. Comparable to seasons in the not too distance past, this is far from crap, this is joyously flourishing.
The first season that I can properly remember was the 2003-04 season, I was about eight and under the stewardship of David ‘Chimbomba’ Pleat we had just recorded a finish of 14th, and if those dizzying heights of mid table mediocrity weren’t enough for me to savour and brag in the school yard at break time, we had also thrown away a 3 goal advantage against a ten man Man City in the F.A Cup.
This result may serve as a wake-up call and be the catalyst that our support needs.
That is the quintessential Spurs that any true fan understands and to a certain degree cherishes. For every Ricky Vila in 1981 there is a John Macken in 2004. For every Danny Blanchflower there is a Johnathan Blondel and for every Glenn Hoddle there is Ben Thatcher. With Spurs, and to be fair the lion share of other teams, you have to take the rough with the smooth.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t aim high and expect the best, they are equally as Spursy as failing. Nor am I trying to sound defeatist. I’m merely asking that AVB’s era be judge by all recent seasons not just one particularly pleasant one.
Furthermore, to anyone who thinks that AVB’s sacking would ratify with instant and tangible success, who replaces him?
Who can we genuinely go out and get that would be an improvement? There are some laughable suggestions floating around Brian Laudrup, Jurgen Klinsmann, and most ridiculously of all a return for Harry Redknapp.
Many people suggest that we are not as good now as we were under good ‘arry, that may be so, but think of the players that have left us in that meantime, Ledley King, Luka Modric, Rafeal Van Der Vaart and Gareth Bale. (4 truly World Class players while they were here, not potentially world class, actual World Class.)
Furthermore, to anyone who thinks that AVB’s sacking would ratify with instant and tangible success, who replaces him? Who can we genuinely go out and get that would be an improvement?
Redknapp was lucky enough to have arrived at a time when expectations were low, and inherited a squad of decent quality, true he may have brought them along but the squad more or less remained constant in his time. Now compare that to the task at hand for AVB.
All four of said players have since left, and AVB has had to buy and bond an almost entirely new squad.
Fundamentally AVB is a better manager, and for those of you that use stats to berate him and promote Redknapp, here is one you may like, I’ll put it as brutally honest and as devastatingly simply as I can.
In his fledgling career as a coach Villas Boas has won three trophies. In Redknapp’s twenty plus year tenure as a manager he has only won one, he has also taken two teams down.
Calling for Redknapp now is like waking up next to Fearne Cotton, and pining for Fern Britain.
I’m not asking for much, just keep the faith!!
____________________
from the fighting cock and I could not agree more with everything written above. All these snide AVB remarks in every thread, so fickle its comical
