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9th May 2003 – Where I come from you stand by your own......
And seeing as Hoddle is neither a nonce nor ponce, he gets my
full support while he is our manager.
The press have been bombing Hoddle for six days and nights like a coalition air strike. Where are his information ministers?? If" Saddam" Levy is to busy organising his latest wedding or "Tariq" Kemsley is to busy negotiating with Real Madrid for an influx of quality players for next season. Where the hell is Saeed Al Pleat?? Silence is golden why have our Club turned their back on the Manager??
The word seeping from the Tottenham Presidential palace is
that Glenn has next season to put his wrongs right or its off with his head, I didn’t
subscribe to that train of thought on my train journey back from the land of
Smog last weekend I thought a trip in the van and some concrete blocks more appropriate
but after realising the board appeared to be giving him this one year extension
to redeem himself I have parked the van and bought another copy of Diamond
lights.
Then the bombing began with Neil "who are you" Ruddock
a well known Ted drinking pal, Tony "no axe to grind" Cascarino. Btw
Hoddle dropped him from his only Cup Final appearance when playing for Chelscum
and Ted just happens to be one of Cass’s kid’s godparents, I think it's his son
Edward!! Then Sherwood the alleged Tottenham fan came skulking out looking for
his revenge for his spate with our Mr Popular earlier in the season. Even dear
old Bobby Robson stuck the blade in saying Ted had two more years left in him
and he couldn’t understand why we were letting him go, if I was Glenn I would
offer the old duffer (I mean Robson not Ted) his services for Bellamy in return
and see his reaction.
After all this abuse still silence; silence and more silence
coming from N17 OAP, not even the quick thinking Tottenham Trust have made any
noise on behalf of our manager, probably still trying to find Wimbledon a new ground
in the borough of Merton to stick up for one of their own or maybe that's just
it he is not one of their own??
The time has come for Levy to stand up for his man, Daniel
BACK him or SACK him don’t let the gutter press drag Glenn and the club through
the shit yet again, for the sake of Tottenham Hotspur do your job and stop the footballing
world laughing at our proud club again.
19th April 2003 – I have tried to see the positives in what Glenn has brought to the party since his return.
I think he must take credit for getting Deano in, we have to move on about the transfer fee, at the time in was 3m to much, in the scheme of things a good buy. Keanaldo is also a marvellous talent a true "Spur" type player.
USA is a very good stand in keeper on his day excellent but what has happened to Sully player of the season before Glenn arrived, breaks a finger nearly two years ago and is never to be seen again, more then likely off at the end of the season to play for the Goons or the like with tales of woe and hysteria.
Bunje and Asillymiss, great trainers and probably wonderful players in a non-contact league. Awful and embarassing.
Ted was a good buy shame we never converted the Worthless in Cardiff, to be fair to Glenn he knows his days are numbered but once again he has mis-managed the situation, why didn’t he just tell him he was not going to get a new contract and thank him for his efforts and if he played the game he would play out the season.
Gus could be carried in a squad but not played when Ted and Bunje are hiding on the pitch at the same time, when we are up against it we have Keanaldo upfront with Ted Bunje and Gus not contributing leaving seven against ten.
Jamie a big risk with his record of injuries not the best player to bet your season on (this also with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight) FREE TRANSFER means the Mickeys didn’t get anything out the deal except Jamie off the wage bill, I reckon he got 3mill to sign and top wages at the club, not bad for 13 league games as well as thinking Glenn is weird.
Blondel the new Rebrov, clearly Glenn knows best so if that's the case why sanction him in the first place. The kid needs to be "played before he is slayed" the mind games have to stop.
Asillymiss see above.
Ziega an enigma similar to Gus a luxury we can hardly afford world class in parts the rest cant be asked.
Lars H .....WHO......
Rohan Rickets, Glenn was overheard at Stevenage on his debut slagging him off and quoting he would n’t make it.
Toda commercial signing of the year, I quite like what I saw from him yesterday, so much better then Fraud and Bunje but in all honesty not upto the required standard.
Well that has covered his signings what about the players that have improved under him.
Tanno
Perrydinho
Ant.
The players who have underperformed in his tenure.
Sully
Carr
Doh
King
Sighman
Leaving Thatch Fraud Dazza Iversen and Matty in neither category.
We used to play 442 we now play ? ? ?
We used to play players in their postitions we now hand them a shirt and tell them to do what they want.
We have no pace in the team.
We have no heart in the team.
We have no hope in our team.
Glenn if your reading this I guess what I am trying to say is there is room for improvement and as my dear old mum used to say to me when I was a kid "Dont scratch it or it wont get better". See you at the Hawthorns for the second crucifixtion of the weekend.
11th April 2003 – As Elton John once sang....
Daniel is leaving tonight on a plane
I can see the red taillights heading for Spain
Oh I can see Daniel waving goodbye
GHod it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes.
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Well Glenn is the bottle half full or half empty, Daniel has resisted the chance to let you go in the summer with the barbed threat of losing more then you win is no longer an option for you. Handing over the "Biscuit Tin" to Glenn is in my opinion a massive gamble. To be fair what manager has more then a 60/40 success rate in the transfer market. Even the likes of Wenger and SAF are not much better then the ratio mentioned, probably why a lot of managers go back to buy players that they have worked with previously.
The easy bit for Glenn is to carry on cleansing the squad the crazy gang connection goes in the summer. Sully will go and it will be interesting to know who won that little argument I am sure the Sun will tell us once the transfer goes through why old "Whacko" fell out with our best keeper since Clemence. Thatch who in his own mind could be doing a job for SGE down the left still has difficulty holding down a position in our reserves and Perrydinho could both find themselves back at Selhurst Park next season playing for the landlords, thus turning our Black season a little Gray if you see what I mean.
Ted & Fraud sorry to mention you in the same breath should be offered season tickets in the Park Lane Lower just to see how much you really love the club. Exits to for Alton (not so towering) and the highly rated (by himself) Etherington the "Boy who couldn’t cross straight". While your at it Glenn maybe you might just hold your hands up and admit that signing a Balkan with no heart was a mistake and Asillymiss was not your best idea either, the Canuck keeper should be shown the door to. Blondel must be given a go or released the torture of players has to stop we will be up before the court of human rights at this rate. Ricketts does not seem to do it for you and the boy Yeates is a year away from the first team squad.
Well that’s the easy bit but who can we get in to enhance the squad. Realistically we need cover at Goalkeeper, I still think Glenn will play 3 5 1 1 so the Three Degrees pick themselves Carr can be covered by Marney / Tano, Ziega by a Lionel Morgan type player. The centre three have to have pace power as well as skill for me Parker of Charlton is my pick and if the Whammers fall through the trap door Carrick will be good buy, I hope the Chelscum poisoned dwarf don’t show although we could do with a bit of attitude in the midfield. Anderton and Lovely wife could take it in turns to have fourteen or fifteen games off with broken toe nails and split ends and supplement the midfield areas on special occaisions when they are fit plus the Davies factor. Gus should be used sparingly as back up to Keanaldo playing in the hole and coming on to nick the odd goal on the very rare occasions we don’t play well at home. Bobby Zamora must surely turn up in the summer as our third striker seeing as Glenn has seen him play more games then half his squad this season, with Iversen being our fourth option. This will leave Daniel the way clear to bring home.............
They say Spain is pretty though I have never been
Daniel says Real are the best team he has ever seen
Oh he should know his been there enough
Oh Lord dear Daniel we miss him so much..........
16th March 2003 – Well here we are again Saturday and just the prospect of Bluewater away…
Now take Louise’s old man’s broken toe. That is painful and something that cant be rushed but eight weeks out at the most though. The fella has played 13 games and 2 sub appearances this season, earlier in January we see pictures of Louise and her old man frolicking in the Caribbean seas but still no Jamie on the pitch at White Hart Lane.
There has been the usual lets not talk about it and the fans might not have noticed coming from Camp Hoddle on what has really happened to him. Yesterday we now hear he hopes to be back before the end of the season, well guess what J our season finished at Upton Park two weeks ago. Ziega's injury can only happen to a Tottenham player (anyone hear of cruciate injuries before Gazza got one?) a cruel blow, but what of the Iversen debacle, he reckons the club have known for a long while about his career threatening back injury, sorry to dig up old wounds but selling both UseLes and SirGuy leaving us with no recognised cover for Ted and Keanaldo going into the most important time of the "fans" season, within touching distance of a UEFA spot was to say foolhardy to say the least...then the penny dropped !!
Tottenham Hotspur Football club and Glenn Hoddle don’t give a "Donald’s" about a UEFA spot they are already looking at next season, of course they wouldn’t say no to the reflected glory of the highest position achieved in the Premiership by our club and they certainly would not mind the inconvenience of a few Thursday nights out in Europe but in the bigger scheme of things this is not going to give us the money or the ability to attract the big European stars to the Lane it's Champions League or bust for Glenn next season no excuses will be accepted. I think in fairness to him he would hold his hands up and go anyway if he was to fail, as he has all the cards in his hands now the majority of the dross will be out of contract by the summer and he has money in the bank to shape the squad to his liking.
Glenn Hoddle your time has come, were you really born the King of White Hart Lane? And sooner rather then later we will find out if this is the second coming or in fact the second going.
9th March 2003 – When Saturday comes…
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We started by losing our first three games of the season one nil but things improved in our fourth game at home to Manchester City we scored, but went onto lose 1-2! Not to be put off three days later we played Derby the eventual league winners that season at home. Our season started, we crushed them 2-0 the record so far played 5 won 1 drew 0 lost 4 for 3 against 5 points 2.
The next game saw us away to Liverpool to be followed by a relatively easy League cup home game against Boro who had been promoted to Division One the season before. Now I know the youngsters reading this think it is only a recent phenomenon that everytime Spurs pull off a decent result a disaster is just waiting to happen but believe me these two games culminated in the biggest disaster in our history. For the second game running we managed to score twice through Perryman and Chivers but the Mickey’s just edged it by scoring five and things started to look really serious, played 6 won 1 drew 0 lost 5 for 5 against 10 points 2,still the League Cup will be a relief we always play well in the cups.
Boro newly promoted and with a mean defence that gave nothing away and true to form they came to a packed White Hart Lane (15,216, 6,000 down on the seasons average so far) and gave nothing away and scored four times!! The season was looking more like a scene from Titanic we had hit an iceberg and we were in danger of going down, "Relegation" was a word the great unwashed used about their teams not the famous Tottenham Hotspur. The greatest manager Tottenham Hotspur had ever known parted company after that match; he had nothing more left to give his beloved Lilywhites.
I feel now I played apart in the legend's demise and hang my head in shame as I took part in the Riots in Rotterdam that night back in May 1974 during the second leg of the UEFA Cup Final the second half was delayed as riot police and our manager tried to restore order for me this broke his heart and he never recovered from that shameful night, the team needed lifting at half-time he never made it for his team talk instead he stayed out on the pitch and tried to calm the situation on the terraces.
Football had changed, and the people following the teams took defeat and failure less graciously the beautiful game was tarnished forever and sadly never regained it's gloss.
The next two games of that season were wins by the odd goal in three at home to West Ham and the odd goal in five away to Wolves and true to Tottenham form we then lost our next three matches on the spin as well as hiring the first "666 Gooner devil" that was " Very Nil" the defeats were Boro and Burnley at home and Chelscum away (something’s never change) this was followed by a 1-1 draw at home to Carlisle (yes this was a top league game) in front of 12,813 and the start of the best run we had that season eight games undefeated, at home one win and three draws, the win versus the filth 2-0 Perryman and Chiv. Then away two wins and two draws the wins at Sheff United and Leicester.
This however was the quiet before the storm our next game was away to Leeds on the 4th December 1974 a very tasty team in there day, I can also I say it's the only ground in the country I have walked backwards from to the station, but that's another story. We lost the game 2-1 and although we did win our next game at home to Newcastle 3-0 our next win was also against Newcastle away on the 11th of January 75 (Alfie Conn scoring three) we never won another game until the 28th MARCH at home to Wolves 3-0 this was also the season we were dumped out of the F.A. Cup at home in a replay to Nottingham Forest in the third round a team who finished just six points away from relegation in division two that season.
Now just think about this for a while between Dec 4th 1974 and playing Wolves at home on the 28th March 1975 we played 18 won 2 drew 4 lost 12 scoring 16 conceding 33 thank god the internet was not invented then!!
The last seven league games of the season saw us safe winning five and losing two this included a home game against Chelscum which was to all but seal their fate to Division Two as we slapped them on and off the pitch 2-0. The season ended for us in a must win home game, a night never to be forgotten by anyone who was there. We had to play Leeds at home, a crowd of 50,000 had gathered to see if we could escape the fate that had befallen Man Utd the season before. The task was quite simple we had to beat Don Revie's European Cup finalists at home to stay up, as they say the rest is history. Cyril Knowles scored twice, Alfie the legend Conn and Big Chiv both notched. Alfie famously sat on the ball in the corner of the pitch and waved over to the then fierce Billy Bremner to come and get it off him, which he duly did in a not to gentlemanly way as Leeds went straight down our end and pulled one back as if to say "we might have bigger fish to fry in the European Final next week but if you take the piss out of us again tonight your going down".
The match ended in a famous 4-2 victory and it was like we had just won the European cup ourselves, the celebrations went on until the next morning the fans were deliriously happy, our brush with relegation was over and we thought never to be repeated... well not for a couple of seasons at least!
Don’t have nightmares...
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