“Nothing lasts forever”, is what they tell you in the SAS. Looking at this morning’s papers, I’m less inclined to quote Andy McNabb, and more reminded of that line in The Color Of Money, “It’s like a nightmare, isn’t it? It just keeps getting worse and worse.”
The season will be over soon, and the St. Alban’s rude boy will be replaced with a football manager.
The sooner Sherwood is officially relieved of his duties, the sooner we can talking about players with an air of confidence again.
I don’t want my transfer window gossip clicks undermined by the fact that no one in their right mind is going to sign for Spurs, with Chuckles in charge.
But there is a deeper malaise. Brendan Rodgers has described swerving the Totteham job as “a close shave.”
You see, the jig is up. The word is out on Levy & Co.
It’s all well and good fans chewing the fat, speculating over who we might employ, but who would actually want the job? If your support isn’t mindless, unthinking; it isn’t difficult to understand why managing Spurs looks like a poisoned chalice.
I’m unconvinced by Rodgers. He strikes me as a more than partially crazed NLP practitioner. Yes, his team look like they are going to win the league, but my point is, whose wouldn’t with Suarez and Sturridge in it?
What we are painfully crying out for is stability. Not some ground breaking new technique, not some multi-tiered micro management structure.
A back to basics approach, where a proven manager is told to build a side that will naturally command a 60,000 seater home stadium. A side that can credibly run out on to a the pitch in a 60,000 seater home stadium.
If we’re honest, and not just unthinkingly devout, our sides have frequently been incapable of playing to a standard that inspires even 30 odd thousand fans for 3 or 4 years. AVB may have been panned for questioning our support, but don’t forget it was Arry who first got niggled into telling us, ‘this is as good as it gets.”
Why anyone thinks adding more fans is the answer is beyond me.
The issue is, do Levy & Co. want to seek change? Do they even recognise the need for it? Until they do, or are replaced with someone who does …we’re stuffed.
