A favourite film of mine is the 1935 version of The 39 Steps. Robert Donat’s pluck was constantly offset against an undertow of ever depressing suspense.
To the reasons then, that Spurs yet again find themselves on the run.
Jesus wept, we were actually had Ledders using call me Daniel‘s private swimming pool for rehab/training as it was cheaper than just doing what any other Premier League football club owner would do – which would be to buy a guy with a complete set of knees.
My point, which I believe I’ve been labouring since AVB was binned, is that we’re 15 years in to a regime that will never be a conduit to change.
To dare is to do is plastered over THFC’s marketing materials like some dark and foreboding Orwellian curse.
What daring, what doing? I hate to break it to some of you, but The Archers has been more risqué since the 1980’s than Tottenham Hotspur.
A leopard never changes its spots. That’s the old adage. THFC under ENIC is very much a leopard, but not a very plausible one.
Not a Steiff leopard, or a Cartier leopard. But a Lidl one that looks more like a rather aggressive Zhu Zhu hamster that’s been crossed with Bet Lynch.
Shock of shocks, the overworked Kane was struck down with a calf cramp.
Patsy Poch reeled out the old ‘he’d done enough at 65 minutes’ line, but the truth was that his preseason was blighted by both Spurs and the FA.
Today wasn’t a loss and I’m not attempting to pass it off as one.
What it did though, and thankfully quite delicately, was reinforce what many of us knew to be already wrong.
So where are we, right now?
Well, we’re 2 games into the season and Poch’s philosophy is still as clear as mud.
Pochettino’s problem is not that he isn’t Alfred Hitchcock, or indeed ‘insert the name of on trend manager here’.
His problem is that he isn’t actually a man called Mauricio Pochettino.
He’s in fact a patsy of Lee Harvey Oswald proportions.
Why? Because he took ENIC’s shilling.
Levy’s on top of his game. He took a leisurely sh*t on the NFL’s boardroom table, and now the world knows they can ask what they like for the late signings we require.
This season almost certainly won’t result in a relegation battle.
But it is beautifully teed up to be another waste of your time and yours.
I continue to believe in Ryan Mason.
