Manchester United vs Tottenham Hotspur : Bumbling Spurs Fluff Their Lines Yet Again

Tuesdays eh? What a proper gash day, and what’s the point, at least Mondays you got the excuse you’re recharging, what’s the excuse for Tuesday , its boring, the next weekend is too far away, the weekend just gone a fading memory. Luckily I have five a side footy in the evening to take my mind off it but that’s not the point. Added to the atrocious weather in the big smoke today, with the rain pouring down and guess what I don’t feel like going into work.My head’s not right, its rainy, Spurs lost, I got loads on and I wouldn’t mind moving to a better job.

My boss will understand right?

See the difference between normal people and Luka Modric, if a certain Mr. Redknapp is to be believed, is that yep things don’t always go our way but we get on with it. Yesterday our season kicked off and with the Modric situation resembling nothing short of a farce which threatens to derail our season before it even properly gets off the ground.

I knew we’d lose but the fact that grates me is for 60 minutes or so we were just on the right side of ok before Yoo-Nigh-Ted gradually started overrunning us in midfield. I sat there and thought if Modric was there(alongside Sandro or Huddlestone) that game could have been there for the taking. The latter two are injured and not match fit. Luka by all accounts is “injured”. What he has done now is disrespect the club that pays his wages. Even the full time lesbian rights activist at the Country Bumpkins, Samir Nasri, put a shift in when he wanted away so what makes Luka so special?

Now lets get one thing straight once Yoo-Nigh-Ted turned it up a gear we were overran, and we can’t take away any credit from that. However the ineptness of the Spurs performance has left me fuming. Fuming at Modric, fuming at our bumbling incompetent buffoon of a manager and fuming at our owners, a cowardly pitiful organisation who do not have the cajoonas to admit they are unwilling to get us competing at the highest level yet are content to charge us the third highest season tickets in the land ( behind Arsenal and Chelsea).As ever at Spurs internal politics threatens to derail what is a fine team on paper and with the addition of a striker could be a great one. Levy and Redknapp don’t see eye to eye, its pretty obvious now. there’s a problem.

My take is that Levy doesn’t trust Redknapp’s judgement and safe in the knowledge that hopefully England will come calling won’t bankroll any of Redknapp’s targets. However at the same time Levy’s penny pinching methods and strict wage structure means that we can’t get the calibre of player we need to take us forward and in Redknapp we have a manager unable to identify decent talent who won’t be on high wages. In short it seems we are fucked royally, whilst Tweedledum and Tweedledee continue at the helm of the great ship that is THFC.

Did Levy get Luka’s back up, In my opinion yes. Was there any need for Harry to tell the world last night. Absolutely not. Why on earth is Levy on holiday at the moment? Why does he continue to challenge for the Olympic Stadium, something that he pursued so blindly he failed to strengthen our team in the past two transfer windows when an acquisition of a striker or two would have propelled us into a side truly capable of challenging for the top honours at both home and aboard. If this was at another club I’d be laughing at the stupidity of it all, unfortunately its happening at my beloved Tottenham Hotspur, the club I have supported since I was in nappies. The club that my dad has supported for over fifty years since he first came to England from India.

A club that means as much to me in many ways as my family. However I’m powerless to stop its decay in the hands of these bumbling idiots. I try and find positives but sadly I see none.

Perhaps football died when the Russian came in at Chelsea and then was finally buried when the Arab Oil Sheikhs came in at Man City, and the right to dream was taken away from us. Oh yes before I forget there was a football match last night and yet again it bared the hallmarks of what typified our performance last season, some pretty passing in midfield, decent runs from the flank with no end product (one effort from Azza when he just froze at the by-line with Rafa screaming was particularly galling). More evidence that against decent opposition Defoe cannot play the lone front man. More evidence if needed that Dawson, whilst his effort must be applauded, is limited and shouldn’t be a first choice defender for a team wanting to move forward.

What on earth was going on with all the long range shooting, I expected the press to overreact to De Gea’s mistakes but lets face it the kid is a talent not a donkey and for a professional football manager like Redknapp to be so blatantly targeting a supposed “weak link” was nothing short of atrocious. Livermore worked hard but eventually got overrun, Friedel played well but is playing a 40 year old geriatric as our number one really the answer??

Overall it was a weak impotent display, a disgrace. I am sick of that bumbling fool Redknapp trying to justify such an insipid performance. We have another match in three days against Hearts, its one of our free season ticket games but if truth be told my disgust at the club means I really don’t want to go.

Audere Est Facere, does anybody at the club remember what Tottenham Hotspur used to stand for?

Player Ratings

Friedel – 8 Played well and kept the score at 3. However he is not a long term solution and who knows what this has done to Gomes’ confidence.

Walker – 5 Didn’t deal with Young, although his sickness possibly played a part, subbed at half time.

Dawson – 4 Looked like a pub defender at times. Whole hearted but sadly not good enough.

Kaboul – 6 Started brilliantly but then went and had a mental moment towards the end of the first half, leaning head first into the “Shit Michael Jackson” or Nani and then never recovered.

Ekotto- 6 Mixture of good and bad, gave the ball away fatally for Yoo-Nigh-Ted’s first goal, needless cross when no one in the box which led to the breakaway for Yoo-Nigh-Ted’s second.

Lennon – 6 A few decent runs, but let down with poor delivery, no more so than at the start of the second half with the score at 0-0.

Livermore – 5 Tried hard and did ok first half, got overrun in the second.

Krancjar- 5 As above for Livermore, should have looked forward more.

Bale – 5 Did very little, one decent run and that was it.

VdV – 7 At least showed some passion, dropped too deep at times and left Defoe isolated.

Defoe 5 – Looked out of his depth.

Subs

Corluka – 5 Didn’t really keep Young at bay.

Huddlestone – 4 Lacked match fitness.

Pav – NA not enough time to make an impact.Find the original article at my Spurs Blog The Glory Game