Which manager appointed to the spurs hot seat was the last to leave you feeling genuinely excited?

[Keith Morris]

After days of dipping in and out of the daily itk round up and the case for....threads, and the positive/negative views of our potential new manager, it got me considering which was the last manager that made me feel genuinely like we had a chance of elevating our status.

AVB I was genuinely excited by cos I just wanted him to have the chance to prove Chelsea wrong and restore his reputation..I did have reservations and concerns but was optimistic.
I can't remember being too bothered at the time by the appointment of redknapp but he went on to do a marvellous job.
So as a spurs fan of 20yrs,without knowing what I do now, the managers that made me think we were gonna do something special were..jaque santini, and juande Ramos! The French national coach, and the Seville super coach with the blueprint to success. Just goes to show initial expectations and doubts aren't always nailed on.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Redknapp and soon, Pochettino.

 

[Spurger King]

Sherwood

 

[Geyzer Soze]

AVB. I genuinely thought he'd be our messiah.

I still harbour a suspicion that given a 3 (or so) year run to build things up his way he could have been

 

[CornerPinDreamer]

Ardiles

 

[Reclamation Project]

Ramos' Sevilla side were pretty exciting to watch. Hopes eventually turned to dust due to the language barrier and lack of tomato sauce!

 

[dirtyh]

Avb, it was that picture of him at the training ground, just seemed so right for us

 

[Air Jordan 3]

Ramos is about the only one I have ever been excited about.

Would be excited by FDB or Poch.

 

[Graysonti]

El Tel

 

[goughie1966]

Terry Venables

 

[Show Pony]

Bring back Jol....he made us fun

 

[Spurs Lodge Kittens]

AVB. Don't know why - cos I actually enjoyed his failure at Chelsea but then when linked with us I started to look beyond that and thought he'd bring the football he was known for at Porto with him and attract loads of big names and it was the likes of Terry and Lampard to blame for the Chelsea fiasco. Didn't really pan out though did it.

I'll support whoever the new guy is but I won't have anywhere near the excitement I had for AVB. No matter who it could have been - LVG, Ancelloti, Poch, FdB, Tuchel

AVB just had me by the balls for some reason

 

[SteveH]

Ramos

 

[Spurs Lodge Kittens]

Also, me and my best mate at Uni were giddy about Santini too and would cheer whenever he popped up on the screen at the Euros that summer, especially during the England game

 

[VegasII]

Harry. I knew we'd improve and play decent football while having a laugh along the way.

Same with Jol...thought he was decent when he was interviewed on TV as our assistant manager.

AVB and Sherwood have helped put me off football and were very close to putting me off Tottenham in the same way that Raincoat and Hoddle (as manager, obviously) did.

I like managers who can inspire the fans as much as the players.

 

[Metalhead]

After days of dipping in and out of the daily itk round up and the case for....threads, and the positive/negative views of our potential new manager, it got me considering which was the last manager that made me feel genuinely like we had a chance of elevating our status.

AVB I was genuinely excited by cos I just wanted him to have the chance to prove Chelsea wrong and restore his reputation..I did have reservations and concerns but was optimistic.
I can't remember being too bothered at the time by the appointment of redknapp but he went on to do a marvellous job.
So as a spurs fan of 20yrs,without knowing what I do now, the managers that made me think we were gonna do something special were..jaque santini, and juande Ramos! The French national coach, and the Seville super coach with the blueprint to success. Just goes to show initial expectations and doubts aren't always nailed on.

I'm guessing before I start reading through this thread that George Graham won't figure much.

 

[Metalhead]

Terry Venables

If only he had stuck to just being a manager.

 

[Led's Zeppelin]

Santini.

 

[VegasII]

I'm guessing before I start reading through this thread that George Graham won't figure much.

To be fair I did mention the term 'Raincoat'. But only in a negative sense

Butros Butros George Graham.

 

[LukeBB]

AVB awoke something inside of me I didn't know was there before. What I saw was a man who had never played the game professionally, arguably he had no right to be managing a top team such as ourselves but in his eyes I saw a passion and determination which I'd never seen before (bearing in mind I'm 17 and didn't start watching football till 15). He celebrated with as much enthusiasm as any other fan of Tottenham Hotspur but he was Portuguese from a far away land who had only known Spurs for a few weeks, his sheer excitement and professionalism provoked inside me a new love for the game, for our club. He showed me how much football can mean to someone and I knew that football could mean the same to me.

His attention to tactical detail and philosophy challenged everything I'd seen under Redknapp and opened up windows for me and showed me another way of how the game could be played. Though it was a way full of numbers, statistics and analysis, it was a romantic way of viewing football, that through such labor and detail, one could express a philosophy, a passion, an opinion of how the game should be played.

Before AVB I didn't mind if I missed a game, I was content with finding out results a week later or by keeping the BBC live-text commentary open in another tab but after seeing AVB's raw emotion which was exposed after every goal, I knew I could never miss another game without doing my very best to watch our beloved Spurs. I would walk miles to a mates house or scrap around for enough money to go to WHL or watch the laggiest middle-eastern live-stream just so I could be there when we scored, to see the fruits of AVB's, his staff and the players labor come to fruition, in that one beautiful, unique moment which evokes an ecstasy only bought about by a goal.

He was the perfect representation of our club at the time, we had CL football ripped away from us by a cruel result in Munich and Arsenal had again conquered us by 1 point, AVB had been ruthlessly sacked and his reputation torn apart by the lapdogs at Sky Sports, both of us had had our egos beaten down, we'd both been left crushed but both of us got right back up with a fire in our hearts to prove our doubters wrong. He was perfectly embodied all we stood for. he was young, bold, ambitious, ready to grab history by the throat and make our own history and claim what we so rightly deserved... glory!

That is why he was the man for me and naturally I was gutted when we ruthlessly tossed him aside and we made him just another statistic who came and failed. I remember that day so clearly, I thought it was a joke constructed by my bastard brother and as soon as I saw that yellow flash across Sky Sports that confirmed his "sacking" I could do nothing but stand there in silence, every romantic, innocent element I saw in football was spat right back in my face in that moment. I do not hold this against Levy though, AVB taught me a different way of how to see football and I forced myself to move on because I knew Levy had the club's best interests at heart and I am very naive so I will always support Levy and the Club.

Because of AVB I now look forward to the next season, whether it's Poch or FDB I'm going to enjoy every minute of their roller-coaster ride with Spurs. COYS!