The dressing room is ****ed...has been ****ed and will be continued to be ****ed until our supreme leader stops insisting ****ing up managerial decisions and insisting on dofs In short Levy needs to be removed from any football decisions at the lane
I see the game as a match Spurs lost rather than one we won. I'm not sure what the feeling is amongst Spurs fans but once we scored we looked comfortable. The current Spurs team is not a patch on the 09/10 team that saw you defeat an incredible Chelsea side in awesome form, a strong Arsenal team and Man City away from home against all odds to secure 4th. Anything I say will come across as patronising and tensions are obviously high so I'll leave it at that but over the summer you need to regroup. I've said it for years and will keep on saying it, Levy is the root problem.
Spot on for me. You looked comfortable before you scored. Like so many games this season we had possession but wouldn't have scored in a million years. Our best attempt was the Sandro volley and it wasn't even close go troubling Cech. Then we imploded, like we've done against all the top sides (apart from arsenal, always next week though) and inexplicably, west ham
You got the ludicrous penalty less than three minutes after you opened the scoring, so it's hardly surprising that you looked comfortable, is it?
Id have thought we should be more ****ed off with our players giving away 3 goals than the ref making a mistake
Can't see how you can slate the ref so much for giving the pen, from his angle I thought it did look like a pen. The red was certainly harsh though.
I agree with him. If we get into the CL, we'll be laughed out of it pretty damn quick. The side we had last time we were in contained Van der Vaart, Modric and a fast improving Bale. Yes we had a few bits of rubbish, but now? No-one of that quality remains at our club.
Give over, Sherwood showed me today that he's the only one at the club that actually gives a f***. The set up was perfect, Chelsea looked clueless until Vertoghen did his dancing on ice impression. Its the players who aren't good enough not the manager
Cech made one save all game and that was from a Sandro snap shot. We barely created anything approaching a chance and then went to bits when Kaboul was sent off. The manager's criticising the players' attitudes, yet he's there to address that. He appears to be criticising their ability, yet he claimed that he wouldn't play anyone that we brought in during January. The buck stops at the manager. It's that simple.
rubbish, how is its Sherwood's fault that Vertonghen and Sandro fell over or that Walker tried a header pass back from 30 yards. Chelsea didn't look like scoring until the mistakes. Yes we didn't look like scoring but we are away at the top of the league not many teams score againt them
He picked a side to nullify Chelsea, but then it fell apart once they took the lead. He didn't respond to Mourinho's half-time change and any poor attitude from the players is ultimately down to him. He's supposed to be the leader. He had a chance to change the players that he had available to him in January. If someone's not doing their job, then it's an issue that's down to him to deal with. Mata didn't do what Mourinho wanted at Chelsea, so out he went.
Well I thought the idea was good, abeit a shaky start which wasn't a surprise, we grew into the game. For just under half the game, last 30mins of the 1st and first 10mins of the 2nd, it worked, even without us giving Ade much to do, it had JM changing things with little success. The individual calamities that followed you cannot legislate for, but the reaction to them you can. JV dwelt on his error too long, shaking his head looking at the floor far too much. If his mind is full of whats gone he's not concentrating on the game. Mistakes happen but you have to move on and stay focused, and evry time we don't, different 11's are involved but the result and performance after going behind remains the same...poor. Kaboul gave the ref a decision to make by touching Eto's shoulder, in real time it could look like he pushed him, silly. Slow mo shows less contact than first thought, so an appeal may be successful. We now know Walker is not a midfielder, it exposes his inconsitant passing and poor football brain, had a mare today. Sherwoods post match is candid to say the least, its going to be interesting to see what reaction team and club have to it.
How the players react against the goons will show if Sherwood has any chance of a future as if his words have failed then the players will look nervous and defeated from the start but if they look focused and up for the challenge, then they have respect for his management. Just before that game we face Benfica, who could hammer us ....possibly three heavy defeats on the spin . Not a pleasant thought!
DL is spot on IMO. Well said, fella. I kind of admire Sherwood for what he's said about 4th place. With our current strategy of selling our best players, 4th is a ridiculous expectation as I've said many times. One manager somehow managed to achieve that... and he was sacked. I'm gonna shut up now before I say something which I shouldn't.
It was Levy's policies that built the excellent side that got us into the CL and Redknapp's fault that we didn't stay in it. Getting back into it again was obviously going to be more tricky and will need a manager who really makes a difference or the coming good of some of our younger signings. That can only happen by actually playing them in the side
It was also Levy's policy to appoint the hapless AVB, and Levy who has now compounded that error by appointing Sherwood - who, IMO, is doing what he thinks is best, but just isn't up to the job.
