As they used to say on Jukebox jury, “…the best part of that record, was the hole in the middle.”
Looking for positives from today isn’t an easy task. That said it was a beautiful day and a lovely drive up from Harrogate.
And on the way out of Turf Moor, the good people from Anchor were handing out brown paper bags containing cheese sandwiches. Whilst super simple they were mostly super. I’m a growing lad so I grabbed two and will have the second for my elevenses tomorrow.
The game itself was an embarrassment.
Yet again, for all the talk of a “philosophy”, we still don’t look like a team. Pochettino has a problem.
What his problem is, depends on how irate you might be right now. Those wanting a blood sacrifice will be screaming about a lack of Plan A, yet alone one with a more adventurous alphabetical suffix.
Those wanting to appear more measured will calmly point out that Mo Po is simply the latest schmuck to inherit the leftovers of the previous stillborn Levy & Co plan.
Me? I say it’s a heady cocktail of the two.
The mess at White Hart Lane is probably best encapsulated in that the substitution of the ineffective Ryan Mason for the soon to be even lamer Andros Townsend was greeted with a significant amount of booing from our lot.
This isn’t some hair-brained conjecture on my part, at that moment I checked with those with me, and it happened.
I cannot recall watching Spurs away fans (who are without doubt a breed apart) respond like this.
When the lads walked off, there was some cricket match type clapping, but suffocating indifference is a better description. This was greeted by the team making a bee-line for the exit, all of whom could barely look at us.
Harry Kane was the ONLY player who had the minerals to walk over and offer some consolatory applause to us.
Kaneinho looked gutted. He was applauded back for for making that effort.
The day was finished off with a few delicious pints of Peroni with some lovely people in some pseudo destination pub called The Spread Eagle, where Karl ‘Foggy’ Fogarty was also holding court.
Full autopsy in the morning.
There will be blood.
