I think what niggled me about Steve Hitchen’s thankfully brief appearance in All Or nothing was just how desperately contrived the whole thing was. Initially as he was having an espresso made for him – which in itself was a deeply uncomfortable moment – I thought he was someone visiting the club.
‘Staged’ barely covers the Tottenham Head of Recruitment’s cameo. Squeezed into his brand-new Marks and Spencer garb, fresh out the barbers where one might imagine he had gruffly told some poor man (who had never ever seen him before), ‘my usual’, Steve Hitchen made for an unconvincing international man of mystery.
I got the distinct impression Hitchen had been itching to tell us how important he is, but instead, opted to make us watch some poor girl make him a coffee instead. In another life, Hitchen might have made an unpleasant warehouse supervisor. “I hate it”, the supremo told the camera.
The full reaction to Hitchen, a scout for a club that doesn’t sign anybody as one fan accurately put it, is here on Twitter. As you can see, we’ve had to be very selective with the reactions we picked, as many were littered with profanity.
Please take a look at Steve’s CV here.
“A player’s agent once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Nom nom nom nom nom.” #StevieofTheLambs pic.twitter.com/VQRtZZ5vZK
— POW! (@POWWOW666) September 8, 2020
I wouldn’t trust you with a flipping barge pole…
At least I want them out, unlike the happy clapping morons. Oh look, and your one of them… 👏 👏 😂
Probably the way Levy likes it, someone else ready to throw under the bus at the right opportunity!
I had to laugh when Levy was talking to Maureen about being one point off CL place… He’s like a guy pretending to know it all, but really knows nothing… Maureen just looks at him and replies ‘oh’… He embarrasses himself repeatedly… His rubbish about fans not knowing how hard it is to sign a striker was horrendous.. What a fool.. Wolves watford and hull managed to sign strikers in that window. Also United. He must think everyones stupid. If he has made his own job too hard for himself then time to step down. More painful than a hip surgery I can imagine clubs don’t want to deal with the man.. Once bitten twice shy…. Another old school saying that Levy and also Poch could adhere to is ‘ A still tongue in a wise head’.
He’s done nothing good for many years.. He played a part in signing modric and ekotto.. Then left us for liverpool with Comoli as sporting director. He helped them sign Suerez. The Scouse were never happy with him he was soon moved on, to then have different roles at QPR and then Derby county… He wasn’t even a scout for those clubs. Since hes been back at spurs which is 3 or 4 years he hasn’t improved us in any window. It’s been a steady decline.
I sussed you out ages ago. I’ve come across plenty of your sort. “Boring? You know all about that don’t you. “ENIC OUT” constantly, doing fk all to try make that happen. Mug
You know nuffink about me, because unlike you I don’t pretend anyone else is interested and go on about it. It’s boring…
You’re the thick inexperienced one here in this thing known as life, trust me. All you do is read about it and watch it on telly. You ain’t lived, I can tell. Ignorant.
You were talking generally about young people, I originally heard no mention of yours.
I’m talking about how do we attract new fans without being at the top table? There’s no point in attempting to return comments to you, you don’t seem to have the intellectual capacity to answer them rationally…
My kids are all Tottenham, they ain’t witnessed Tottenham win anything big. Stop talking about what you know fk all about.
Young fans follow the clubs that win stuff, the biggest stuff. Young people have a shorter attention span than ever.
They ain’t gonna wait another 20 years for something significant to happen I’m afraid…
Young fans don’t think like you, neither do parents and grandparents. We just wanna make memories with our kids and grandkids. I don’t expect you to understand. ANY FKIN CUPS
A cup would be nice, but glory only lies in winning the big stuff and going back time after time until you’ve won it. The pursuit of glory does not lie in just describing the League Cup or Rooney League as ‘glory’.
Because the whole world knows it isn’t…
I heard that too. All we need is a generous owner. Someone who encourages/demands levy to spend his money
Any cup will be glorious for me right about now. I don’t think Jose See’s it that way though.
Not sure mate I am still in recovery after watching Del and Rodney’s cameo performances in the last episode.🤪
How would you define ‘Glory’? I’ve got my definition, what’s yours exactly? Do you even know?
Exciting times Bale,Modric & Van the man.
My guy arry started it off.🌚
I know.
💤💤💤💤💤 🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏
Dem man have convinced themselves we’re hopeless.
Enic and Spurs got to within 90mins of winning the biggest cup competition in their history,the players have more belief than you. Are you a member of Misery Bay Michigan Spurs supporters club based beside the misery river.So what if Kane leaves does the world stop spinning? Leicester sell their best players all the time Mahrez,Maguire,Kante,Chillwell, and still finish above us by recruiting well.Chelsea sold Hazard and buy Werner & Ziyech.Liverpool sell Coutinho and buy Van Dijk & Alisson. We have only played in the Top European competition 5 times all under Enic since last winning the league 59 years ago.
More bo77ocks
Not under ENIC Tappa.You know this and sadly so do the players. Mourinho is a great manager and I believe really has a desire to prove his naysayers wrong and achieve success again. However with ENIC and Levy that will not happen. Kane will be gone next season if we fail this season. He almost said as much in the video.
Why did you vote yourself down Leggy?
If you look at most of Trevor Birches appointments they have been to facilitate the sale of a club from what I read… on twitter😏
Opps, wrong person that was for Les.
Hitchin did himself no favours in his fifteen minutes of fame, or was it seconds, anyway he came across as just hopeless, and Levy looks the same. There is no real genuine positive attitude from this pair, which I find to be almost criminal, all they offered was negativity , everything was a problem, and all those problems have been self inflicted through one man and his vision of creating wealth not a successful football club.
It would have been far better for levy’s credibility if he had not appeared in this documentary.
I have only watched 2
not sure if I will watch any more I keep getting the feeling we are now a property company with a football club attached
Still judging us on the little old no money lane days then. Jose’s no mug. He knows exactly what he’s walked into. Loves us immensely already. Glory here will be his biggest ever achievement (though winning the big one with porto was a big big achievement too. He’s here for the big one also.
Great post, Legover.
Although I must correct you one one point. There are smaller clubs below us that spend more too!
Unless he’s careful, Levy will have built nothing more than a monument to failure after pouring all this concrete in Tottenham and Enfield.
You’re right, the whole thing feels empty and it’s rapidly becoming soulless. From the ‘atrocious reality TV show’ I get the impression that Jose finds the whole environment a little strange.
This is a man who has worked at Real Madrid, Inter, Chavski and Utd when all these clubs were splashing the cash left, right and center.
These clubs had one objective, to win big, and the atmosphere within those clubs must have as a result been exciting, optimistic and forward looking. Aggressive ambition to not f**ck about and get this done to fill the trophy cabinet.
What on earth Jose secretly makes of what he’s walked into one can only imagine. Aggressive ambition and infectious optimism will certainly not be his overwhelming emotion.
He won’t last long, and as much as I’m hardly a massive fan of his, I respect his record and his will to win. The problem is that none of that is shared by the c**ts upstairs at Spurs.
A wooden spoon for Levy to wave about and then off to China for a final payday I suspect…
“This club will never win anything of substance? Bo77ock$
I can understand how that job would turn you into a shell of a man. Or how Levy would only appoint a shell of a man in that role.
Levy treats “All or Nothing” like it’s a multiple choice question.
“Err… I think I’ll go for ‘b. Nothing’.”
Have I missed anything about Trevor Birch or is that in the pipeline next after last weeks reshuffle.
He is just not a figure you would expect to be occupying such a role at a PL football club. He is pure Werner Hogg middle management, Leighton Buzzard branch.
He’s a Patsy. Micro managed from the moment he gets up, to the moment he falls asleep with his head in his dinner. The epitome of a nobody.
He looks a bit like a baby. Has he done anything in the last two years? 😂
Looking at the All or Nothing( so it’s nothing then) videos this is a club built on smoke and mirrors. All the fancy surroundings, high tech equipment, corporate infrastructure is just cosmetic. Underneath the fabric of the enterprise is the knowledge by all involved that this club will never win anything of any substance or have consistent success on the football pitch because there is simply no “Investment” to reach that position. The manager knows it, the staff know it and most damagingly the players know it. The huffing and puffing by Levy and Hitchens amounts to no more than filibustering. The devil is in the detail. The killer comments by both of these maggoty weasels is “we have a budget”. It is the scale and size of that budget that is the essence of all that is wrong at the club. The top clubs above us have budgets of a size that meets the need of clubs looking to succeed at the
highest levels of the game. ENIC and Levy limit any aspiration of real success by
determining a budget that is the equivalent of handcuffs and a straightjacket and makes it impossible to build a squad that will achieve anything of note. All our best players who have left over the years have done so because of this lack of ambition and investment. Listening to Kane’s comments at 27 years of age he will absolutely be gone at the end of what promises to be another season of failure. Eriksen left because he was 27 years of age and could see that he had next to no chance of winning anything at this club. Until these parasites we have as owners leave nothing will change.
Hitchens looks a dog poor appointment. “I ‘ates the January transfer window, me..” Then please leave so we can get someone willing and able to do your job.The most astounding part though was levy’s claim that he uses every transfer window to strengthen the team. Stated snugly too, like those 518 days under poch never happened and he’d delivered Mourinho the striker he’d been howling for. Yet again, “who ya gonna believe, me or the evidence of your own eyes?”
I find it unsettling that levy regards this as convincing propaganda.
“POW! above. I like reading his stuff. Mandem🌚