- Feb 1, 2005
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It's early so this might be a bit of a ramble, apologies if so..........This is a sad day but I think we all suspected it was coming
There are some older fans who remember the sixties, others, like me have Burkinshaw to cling to and even more don't have anything, the closest they've ever come has been Pochettino and sadly, that's gone sour now. Some of the spite, 'comedy' and vitriol directed his way this past few months has been disgusting. It's gone beyond reasonable criticism with one user asking if that 'incompetent bastard' was still at the club. Shameful and embarrassing. I hope next time we're more grown up about it.
The arguing on here was some of the most heated we've ever seen on SC and it surprises me that some of the more vocal and intolerant are actually now telling us how sad it is and in one case how out of order the club is. Amazing, but there you go. I guess a vocal minority were on here because that SSN poll asking if the club were right to sack him had 85% saying 'no'. That surprised me.
But that's over now and we move on.
Every now and again, probably more often than I care to remember, someone on SC gets offended by something somebody in football does and says something like 'I'm glad he's not at my club'.......We're very very good at stuff like that. We bicker about how we want to win trophies, some want to do it the 'right' way others couldn't care less if a sugar daddy bought the club and we spent our way to success. But always, underpinning it, is this wanting our cake and eating it mentality. Yes we want to win, no not by spending money, it has to be by playing a certain way, the players must be this, the manager cannot do that, everything must be just so or some of us just don't like it.
Now we going to be managed by Mourinho and if he brings a certain abrasiveness to the club then good. If he stands his ground and says what needs to be said then excellent and if he puts a few noses out of joint then so much the better. Wether we actually win things with him or not, the guy could possibly transform the mentality around the club, give the players a kick up the arse and reach them what it takes to be winners and get rid of some of the 'niceness' that in my opinion has always been around us. And if he does that then I'm all for it.
Its about time we got a bit tasty and if between them, Levy and Mourinho can do that then this might all be very beneficial to the club. It's another step in how we're perceived, how we're growing and how the team is developing. Let's give it a chance, the way we've been doing it hasn't worked and I'll say it again ,it's about time we got a bit tasty about things and started putting a few noses out of joint, started to put ourselves about a bit. Down the line this may well be the appointment that properly gave us a shove in the right direction and ask yourselves this........who was the last Spurs manager with a CV like his?
So Jose Mourinho? Yes please, absolutely.
Anyway, a bit of a ramble and now I've got to the end, fuck knows if I actually made the point I was looking to make so I'm off for a coffee.
There are some older fans who remember the sixties, others, like me have Burkinshaw to cling to and even more don't have anything, the closest they've ever come has been Pochettino and sadly, that's gone sour now. Some of the spite, 'comedy' and vitriol directed his way this past few months has been disgusting. It's gone beyond reasonable criticism with one user asking if that 'incompetent bastard' was still at the club. Shameful and embarrassing. I hope next time we're more grown up about it.
The arguing on here was some of the most heated we've ever seen on SC and it surprises me that some of the more vocal and intolerant are actually now telling us how sad it is and in one case how out of order the club is. Amazing, but there you go. I guess a vocal minority were on here because that SSN poll asking if the club were right to sack him had 85% saying 'no'. That surprised me.
But that's over now and we move on.
Every now and again, probably more often than I care to remember, someone on SC gets offended by something somebody in football does and says something like 'I'm glad he's not at my club'.......We're very very good at stuff like that. We bicker about how we want to win trophies, some want to do it the 'right' way others couldn't care less if a sugar daddy bought the club and we spent our way to success. But always, underpinning it, is this wanting our cake and eating it mentality. Yes we want to win, no not by spending money, it has to be by playing a certain way, the players must be this, the manager cannot do that, everything must be just so or some of us just don't like it.
Now we going to be managed by Mourinho and if he brings a certain abrasiveness to the club then good. If he stands his ground and says what needs to be said then excellent and if he puts a few noses out of joint then so much the better. Wether we actually win things with him or not, the guy could possibly transform the mentality around the club, give the players a kick up the arse and reach them what it takes to be winners and get rid of some of the 'niceness' that in my opinion has always been around us. And if he does that then I'm all for it.
Its about time we got a bit tasty and if between them, Levy and Mourinho can do that then this might all be very beneficial to the club. It's another step in how we're perceived, how we're growing and how the team is developing. Let's give it a chance, the way we've been doing it hasn't worked and I'll say it again ,it's about time we got a bit tasty about things and started putting a few noses out of joint, started to put ourselves about a bit. Down the line this may well be the appointment that properly gave us a shove in the right direction and ask yourselves this........who was the last Spurs manager with a CV like his?
So Jose Mourinho? Yes please, absolutely.
Anyway, a bit of a ramble and now I've got to the end, fuck knows if I actually made the point I was looking to make so I'm off for a coffee.
