Spursy Wipe

Now that Spurs are in a right proper state, it’s time to side step Jose Mourinho and look towards Levy (again) and blame him, much like ‘we’ (the royal) have done for 20 odd years. Except when we’ve done okay and challenged, then we only blame him when we fall short.

Fancy a flutter on whether Tottenham can recover or not? If you do then check out these promotions and codes in the UK, be it this season or next, if this season isn’t deleted from the history books. And if it is, it’s probably for the best. At least from a THFC perspective.

There is certifiable reason and arguments to be had in our favour, in terms of decisive ruthless action to consolidate, that our chairman has not delivered. But that’s been done to death. One thing that is quite fancy, talking about media manipulation, is the way the supporters distort the reality of the football club, ripping it from the space time continuum of context and chucking vital arcs into a black hole.

“We’ve won 1 cup in 20 years m8, bloody disgraceful”

Now factor in, three cup finals. Countless semi-finals. Then appreciate how many of those twenty years were spent trying to catch up to the Top Four elite. Arguably, we’ve been on a trajectory since 2006. Would you disagree? And it took a fair while to puncture the upper echelons with our cock(erel). From a chicken on a ball to the fighting cocks.

Now take the pre-Levy era. What did we win? A fair bit, right? Let’s take the 20 years before ENIC rolled into town. So that would be 1981 – 2001.

Three FA Cups and two League Cups. One UEFA Cup. Runners-up three times (correct me). Six. On paper, it’s a fair difference.

This is where football supporters and their arguments, for and against, get muddled. Are we really going to compare the 1980s to the 2010s? Really? There is no debate from me that Poch’s side at its very best was every bit as iconic as that early 80s Spurs team. But football was a simplistic experience back then, in every-way conceivable. It wasn’t necessarily easy to win silverware but the playing field was more on a level pegging than it is today. Meaning it was possible for anyone to win something, as long as they had sustained quality and luck going in their favour. Much like Liverpool and all the farmers they beat on the way to their European Cup successes during the 70s and 80s.

We also had to recover from the Scholar/Sugar/El Tel mismanagement on and off the pitch.

Levy has got many things wrong. I have something to share in the very near future that you will think is pure satire. It isn’t. I just have to work out the legal logistics of posting it and if it’s the ethical thing to do. He’s also got many things right. In the long term, Spurs will always be competitive. What that looks like might be what we’re seeing today. Two or three clubs in the mix, cycles of success lasting 3-4 years, everyone gets a turn at winning something. Perhaps there’s 5 or 6 super powers in England that will deliver. Now and again, during shared states of flux, we’ll get another fairy-tale. It really is nothing like the 1980s.

Put it this way, Tottenham as a club in the 1980s is every bit akin to most of the former ‘top clubs’ playing Championship football currently. Compare Spurs 20 years ago to Spurs today. In my lifetime, the Levy era, I have actually believed we could win the title. That’s winning the title in possibly the most difficult era of football that has ever existed (thanks to pre-bloated financial ethics before FFP was introduced). Do not sleep on this.

Alas, we have to move on and we have to retain that sense of contending and not pretending. Over to you Mr Chairman.

The Premier League suspended. Euro 2020 delayed until 2021. The debate remains whether Liverpool should be awarded the title even though they haven’t mathematically won it ‘yet’. It would have taken a society denting incursion to stop them and…oh wait. That’s actually happened. NULL AND VOID YOUR HONOUR, NULL AND VOID. At least Kane will be back for England and rival fans will have a ready made scapegoat. 2021, the summer of love! Can’t wait.

At least we don’t have to watch Spurs struggle with no recognised forwards. No nucleus in the centre of the field. Centre-backs with their best days behind them. A keeper, a great servant, that keeps dropping the tray, champagne all over the carpet. Too many wingers. Too many injuries. Tottenham has been in self-isolation for a good 12 months tbf. It’s like Lasagnagate without the runs in the box.

So we wanted Poch out because of the miserable football and we’ve got in a serial winner to turn things around quickly by…playing miserable football. Okay. I’m half jesting, but there’s question marks all over the place. Imagine a heat map covered in them. Which is a bit funny as we appear to have a fair few question marks in our first team. Jose is no longer special in the eyes of the media (breaking news that).

They love a hatchet job on him. So do our fans. And I can’t blame them. He’s Chelsea, he’s a destroyer of souls. He’s past it? Some of the criticism is worthy of some introspection for sure. But, was he really expected to turn things around quickly? Aside from the vocal minority that were adamant replacing Poch would turn us into cup winners.

The worst ever Tottenham side under Poch got to a Champions League final. Regardless of the revisionist blurb about papering over the cracks, we lived a dream. For a bit. But this isn’t a Jose team. It’s Poch’s failing/failed/burn out squad.

So if (LOL) Daniel Levy backs his manager we might see progressive improvement when the new season starts. We might see some compact, solid, effective football. It will still be miserable to watch no doubt, but hey, you wanted a serial winner’s mentality. The only question that needs answering is whether Jose is still special whilst I scratch my head (Hoddle style) and pose another question; is he magic?