Information received this morning, suggests that André Villas-Boas didn’t get binned, he walked.
There was a brief conversation between the then boss, and Levy & Co. after the game. This then became a formal meeting the following morning.
I’ve no interested in being sued, but suffice to say both parties were found asking each other who was actually managing the team.
Fast forward to Iago Timothy being asked to step into the boardroom.
For a man that was supposedly on his way to train the Development Squad one minute, and then temporary boss the next, Timothy doesn’t speak like a man who has been suddenly thrown a curve ball.
A cynic might suspect a long term ambition had come to fruition.
The immediate future is up in the air, that’s as much as I know. It would have to be right for me and right for the football club. There are a lot of big names being bandied about to take this job.
I think the chairman and the football club need to make the correct decision and find the manager who’s best compatible to take this football club forward.
I’ve got to be in the frame, but it’s not my decision, unfortunately.
I’m up for a challenge. I always have been. I’m very opinionated. I know a certain way I need to play. I think I can manage men and deal with them and be honest with them.
That decision going on is out of my hands, unfortunately.
The confidence is low. It takes a battering when you lose a few games, but it’s up to whoever’s in charge on Sunday and training on Friday to get them prepared.
For those of you watching in black and white, my view is that there are 22 league games left and whatever 2 3 cups might proffer up.
Levy & Co. have spoken. They have said, “We’ve got a better idea.” I’m not going to say their idea wasn’t better after one game.
I couldn’t be done with AVB being “definitively analysed” after every damn game, but understand this, I don’t believe Iago has the credentials to manage a side as big as Tottenham. Not in a million years. That was my opinion before a ball was kicked last night.
Iago isn’t the man for the job. Last night was irrelevant.
Some will have watched the game and felt buoyed by it. We were certainly more animated. It was a brilliant goal from Ade. Are those buoyed the same punters who kept describing Bonzo running lots to no good purpose as ‘brilliant’? Are those buoyed the same punters who felt Townsend’s 1/40 goal to shot ratio was ‘a good thing’?
We lost, were out the cup. That’s what those pesky history books will say.
Those lunatics who were casually crowing that they’d take losing but playing well, could be in for a spell of cramp inducing, forced smiles. I hope not, I hope playing 442 and looking like Leeds trying to make the playoffs works out for us, for however long the board give this snake.
AVB delivered some very unsatisfying, wannabe futuristic football. Iago looks as if he is trying to revisit the Stone Age. The answer is a happy* intelligent medium.
*If you want to be happy, do not buy a football ticket, they are not passports to happiness.
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