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More Neil Ashton DNA Discovered

By The Boy -

The closer you look at it, the worse it gets.

It’s taken 10 years for this jewel of football management to have been uncovered. Just call Daniel Levy the Indiana Jones of football, I say.

Let’s not worry about the whys the wherefores, let’s just rejoice.

10 years Iago has spent as the go to man on the Tottenham training  ground, honing his craft. I say honing, but of course, I don’t mean in this in the conventional careerist sense.

In that decade of dedication, Tim Sherwood has never been credibly linked with a single external appointment.

Tell a lie.

He was once.

Sort of.

Back 2o12, technical co-ordinator Tim, was thought to be in with a shout for the role of Director Of Football at THFC. Well, I say thought.

A journalist thought that he was.

It is worth noting that this  piece in the Daily Mail covered this gross oversight. A piece written by one Neil Ashton.

Ashton describes Sherwood in terms only an over zealous mother would use to describe her rather plain, over made up daughter, in some grotesque American beauty pageant.

Sherwood, who has an outstanding reputation as technical co-ordinator at White Hart Lane, is one of the most sought after names in the game.

Despite Sherwood’s increasing standing within the sport, he will not be promoted to the top job according to Villas-Boas.

This is textbook Ashton. No experience even at lower league level, nothing to remotely corroborate the wild assertion that he is held in high regard, anywhere.

In fact, for those of us who had had the misfortune to experience Iago as a pundit on Setanta, he was routinely sniffy towards Spurs. He wasn’t objective, he was surly. Certainly a far far cry from his sudden claims, that “this is his club.”

So the closest he got to a real job was a completely unsubstantiated half rumour that was in for the Blackburn job, when Steve Keen was being used as a punchbag at Blackburn Rovers.

André took Iago’s ambitions at Spurs and stamped on them like an unhinged ginger monster stamping on the dreams of a small child.

In the way we want to build I think Daniel Levy sees Tim continuing as technical co-ordinator, working with the development squad

In modern organisations there should be a link between the chairman and the football team

There are different ways to interpret this gap. In England there is a manager with more responsibilities, but for me, as a head coach, it is better to have a director of football.

It helps us to work closer with the first team. The director of football can have contacts with players and agents, as well as bridging the gap with youth football and with the scouting structure.”

Tim must have been absolutely livid. Always the ball boy, never the bride.

So how as it come to this, that an ambitious egotist has managed to be granted access to something so precious?

Levy & Co. have lost their minds and my support. Joe Lewis needs someone to waft the fumes from his Gaggia machine into his air con and step in. This is an unmitigated disaster and even the most hardened AVB opponents have surely got to see where this is heading.

Don’t be hoodwinked by the “everyman” London strains of this viper. This is far far worse than merely appointing Arry Lite. You have no idea. Appointing Sherwood would be akin to giving the job to a talkSPORT caller.

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