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5th October 2007 - Be careful what you wish for

 

“Be careful what you wish for, lest it become true”

Introduction to ‘The Monkey’s Paw’, a classic horror tale by W.W. Jacobs.

 

Dodgy dealings in Spanish Villa’s to rival our dodgy Lasagne of two years previous and a Chairman smiling an undertakers smile from his perch in the West Stand – symbolically hovering over the head of Martin Jol like the sword of Damocles itself.

Two months into the season and Tottenham have imploded.

 

So now that the dust has settled long enough to leave a footprint… Who’s to blame for the Barnum & Bailey spectacular that’s keeping half of Fleet Street in the job? Did the Wapping expense fiddlers themselves do the deed with the lead pipe in the drawing room? Well no, not really – they’ve just reported what happened, albeit with a large helping of

pomposity and barely concealed glee.

 

Once the club ‘fessed up’ to their sordid meeting with Juande Ramos, you could hardly accuse the press of concocting the sorry tale as part of a ‘Gooner hack’ conspiracy. But what then of that meeting… The single most embarrassing moment for a Spurs board since Alan Sugar ‘fired’ Jurgen Klinsman’s shirt on TV? And what of the involvement of Sugar’s sidekick, Paul ‘wheeler-dealer’ Kemsley?

 

Here was a likely candidate for our hate and scorn…someone we could boo from the Park Lane. Kemsley’s braggadocio was legendary (well, it was after tales of his exploits appeared on the web). He was our Kenyon and Dein all rolled into one – a gift-wrapped scapegoat on which to offload the derision being heaped on us by our neighbours.

 

Except… well, the meeting must have been sanctioned by the club… so while he looks a bit shifty and I wouldn’t want him going out with a friend of mine, he seems to be off this particular hook. Which meant this was going higher… to the very top! There could only be one person responsible for the fiasco and that was Levy himself! He was to blame; him and his bottled water and ‘no smoking’ policies.

 

But hang on a second. If you were running a business and your main sales rep had just pulled off the two best years for decades, you’d hardly be lining him up for the bullet? Unless, that is, somewhere in your mind you had this niggling doubt about his ability to mix it with the rival firm down the road. 

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Sept 2007 - Jol Petition
 

Players come and go, we win some, we lose some, but I have always held my head up as a Spurs fan. Through jeering and taunting from work-mates, abuse from Arsenal fans, physical violence from West Ham fans, Police baton charges, threats at Old Trafford... even the 7-0 hammering at Anfield - NOTHING has made me doubt my love for my club...until this week.

This week... I have felt what it must be like to be a Chelsea fan and to seriously try and convince people that we didn't buy the league. This week, I felt like an Arsenal fan defending another indefensible penalty or dive from Pires. This week, I felt like a West Ham fan saying that there was nothing unusual or underhand about the Tevez farce. This week, I felt dirty, and sordid, and just like all the rest... and I don't like that because I'm a Spurs fan & we are the Lillywhites. Shame on us. 

If you don't like what's happening, please go to:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/240047139 and sign the petition. If you don't want Martin to stay then just keep quiet... you've said enough already.

 

Mesmo

 

 

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