I would like to start by saying, I do not enjoy moaning, although it may look like a do, i really don't, I would much rather start every Monday morning by writing a blog about how happy I am about what the weekend has had in store for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Unfortunately this Monday, like most Mondays recently I am left annoyed, frustrated and disappointed. What has made it worse is that non-Spurs fans are starting to realise that not everyone at the club holds Harry Redknapp in as higher esteem as he would have them believe. So now those of us who think it may be time to freshen things up, like me, have to answer accusing questions from Chelsea and Arsenal fans in particular, along the lines of "you were nothing before Harry, how can you want him sacked?". Do they really need reminding that Arsenal called for Wenger to be sacked earlier in the season, despite the fact he really has made their club what they are today. Chelsea sacked Ancellotti less than a year after winning the double, so the day i take advice from anyone in the blue of Chelsea, is the day I sign up to my Saracens season ticket and throw my Spurs season ticket straight into the Thames. Anyway enough of a rant about what uniformed arm-chair fans of other clubs think, down to the real matter at hand, Spurs abysmal defeat to the hands of QPR.
Despite what you may think about the title it is not a reference to the end of Harry Redknapp tenure at Spurs, but in fact the more important business of Spurs' season as a whole. We have dropped out of the top four, and i for one, cant see us winning again this season. We fell to an Adel Taraabt free-kick in the first half, the player was latter sent off. I do not begrudge Adel getting his goal, although it was painfully predictable before the game. I have a lot of time for the lad and i feel that he would still be at Spurs now, had he been guaranteed first team football. I think it was a bit harsh that he performance against us earlier in the season was described as "useless" by our fearless leader. For a youngster and a former Spurs youngster at that, it will not be constructive for his carear to level those kind of insults his way, especially when he has destroyed all your tactical knowledge, if it can be called that, with one swing of his right boot. The whole speech stank of jealousy and desperation, and I don't think there is one party who benefited, other than maybe Redknapp who took on the persona of a typical bully, I feel hurt so I am going to slag someone else off.
Other than the winning goal there was little else worth mentioning in the match. So where did it all go wrong? Firstly, Bale and VDV were just behind the striker again, leading the Spurs fans to sing once again "He plays on the left, he plays on the left, Gareth Bale he plays on the left". We have all been through this so many times, I am not going to waste my time by re-writing it all again, but we all know, he can not play in the middle. Again we started with two defensive midfielders, Sandro and Parker, on the face of it this looks far too defensive. However, after having the idea given to me by someone who's football opinions i rate very highly (unlike the clowns in the first paragraph) it seems clear why we start two defensive midfielders so frequently now. Redknapp is so worried by our defensive frailty that he doesn't trust any of centre back pairings without Kaboul and therefore needs to reinforce the defence with Sandro and Parker. Don't be fooled though, I am not defending his tactics, I am just saying that the problem comes from a different area than you may think. The real question is then, with Cahill, Samba and others on the market in January, why did we bring in Nelson, if he is not trusted?
Once again the team looked lifeless and passionless. Something needs to be done, no matter how many time Parker and Redknapp say "we haven't got time to look at whats wrong" if we don't we will find ourselves in sixth, and remarkably worse than last season. I don't for a minute think Redknapp will be out of Spurs before the end of the season, Levy will now want to hold out for the England money to come in. Should England not go for Redknapp, will he be sacked, depending on the final four games of the season of course? Unless the wheeler-dealer has some serious dirt on Levy i can't see how he can keep his job, Levy is not a stupid man, he know Harry should denied speculation about England straight away. Only time will tell now, and perhaps i should quote Scotty Parker, now isn't the time to look into it.
Another excuse was that Spurs don't have enough strength in depth and the bench lacked any quality on Saturday. I wonder what Newcastle fans and management think about that, they have a far lesser squad than ours and they are flying. I think it is an insult to teams like Newcastle when Redknapp produces that sort of drivel as an excuse for his poor tactics. Furthermore, why are Townsend, Pinaar, Corluka and more out of the club on loan if he is that worried about strength in depth, at the end of the day it must have been you who signed the forms to let them go Harry?
All i hope now is to be able to write a happy blog about next weekends home match with Blackburn. Despite how it may seem, moaning about my beloved Spurs is tiresome, and i would give anything to highlight the good points as well for once, just there haven't been many good points recently, and i don't think anyone could argue with that.
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