A Bitter Beginning
Article by Paul Mortimer
After a poor display against Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur yet again produced a dismal display in front of its own fans on Tuesday against Everton, the team who many claim will be pushing us for a 5th (or higher) placed standing come the end of the season.
The Guardian has stated that Martin Jol was asked to explain the two defeats to Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy. If this is true, I believe the conversation was only to encourage Jol and not ask him for explanations as to why the team are performing so badly.
Mr. Levy wouldn't have sanctioned near on £40 million in transfers in the close season, only to start asking questions of his manager two games into the season.
I believe that we, the fans, also should get behind Martin Jol and the team. Martin will turn things around, and I believe the turn around will happen against Derby on Saturday.
Even though Kaboul and Berbatov have been ruled out, Spurs do have the mental strength to overcome their recent downturn in fortunes. We must not start looking to place the blame on someones head. I know it's tough, but turning on the manager just after only two games is absurd.
The media knows that the Spurs fans are extremely inpatient and have already started their crazed talk about who will manage Tottenham Hotspur after Jol has been sacked. We mustn't allow ourselves to be engulfed in the media hype.
Get behind the team, support Spurs and especially Martin Jol.
This bitter beginning will end soon. The injured players will return, and Spurs will start gain results.
After a poor display against Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur yet again produced a dismal display in front of its own fans on Tuesday against Everton, the team who many claim will be pushing us for a 5th (or higher) placed standing come the end of the season.
The Guardian has stated that Martin Jol was asked to explain the two defeats to Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy. If this is true, I believe the conversation was only to encourage Jol and not ask him for explanations as to why the team are performing so badly.
Mr. Levy wouldn't have sanctioned near on £40 million in transfers in the close season, only to start asking questions of his manager two games into the season.
I believe that we, the fans, also should get behind Martin Jol and the team. Martin will turn things around, and I believe the turn around will happen against Derby on Saturday.
Even though Kaboul and Berbatov have been ruled out, Spurs do have the mental strength to overcome their recent downturn in fortunes. We must not start looking to place the blame on someones head. I know it's tough, but turning on the manager just after only two games is absurd.
The media knows that the Spurs fans are extremely inpatient and have already started their crazed talk about who will manage Tottenham Hotspur after Jol has been sacked. We mustn't allow ourselves to be engulfed in the media hype.
Get behind the team, support Spurs and especially Martin Jol.
This bitter beginning will end soon. The injured players will return, and Spurs will start gain results.
24 comments
Have they forgotten how much he has done for the club? Dont they remember the Pleat, and Gross days?
Wake up!
Its only 2 games.
COYS !!!!
Dont you think that another manager with the amount of money jols had would have done the same or better?
If we had lost the games playing really well, i wouldnt have cared. We are playing absolute rubbish. The blame lands firmly with jol imo.
Give Jol time to deliver the goods. We all know that the team will get so much better when the injured players come back. Does anyone know when Lennon will be back?
Bottom of the league, going nowhere, spending all your money. Laughable really.
COA
Why are you lot complaining? The team isn't as motivated as it should be because 70% of it isn't there!
I think COA means come on arse*al
Be positive if you turn on the team after 2 games you seriously can not be called a fan. Grow up!
He very rarely makes a substitution that changes the game in our favour, as we saw a few times last season. Can you imagine us under Fergie, Jose or hate to say it but even Wenger? For a start, they would make the players believe that Spurs ARE a top 4 team, and with that kind of confidence and some good management we would be. I like Bent, but everyone knows we had no problems upfront so why not invest in areas we really needed to,i.e. left wing/ a creative attacking midfielder??
We need width, we need the manager to have the bals to drop players like Jenas and Berbatov if he is not performing, Taraabt needs to be given a chance and for crying out loud give Defoe a fair chance!!
Lets hope big MJ can sort his issues out and still have a good season,maybe winning the UEFA?!
We have so many injuires. Maybe Taraabt just may be not ready for first team action yet.
We need to judge Jol when we have the players back.
If we have nearly all the players back from injury and we are playing the same way, then I will also call for his head.
I agree with 11:06, the concern has to be some of the players don't seem to have any drive or passion at the moment. there are a few fringe players who must be chomping at the bit to get a game and i think that they could do well. Defoe, Tarrabat, Routledge, Murphy, KPB (even if we only a half out of him), Huddlestone. give these guys a chance, it's not as if they can do much worse.
Remember guys, we support Spurs for a reason, let's get behind them and stop bitching.
1. Anyone think our pre-season opponents were a little on the tame side? Not one decent team amongst them. And we all know how well we always start the season. The top 4 teams were playing top european teams in pre season - the best we could manage was Torino (just avoided relegation last year).
2. Cannot blame anyone for the defensive injuries - seems whoever is fit will play, and we know Staltieri & Gardner are not up to it.
3. BUT - why so lame in midfield/attack? I have three explanations,
Firstly see 1 above - I do not think we had a tough enough pre-season.
Secondly, Jol is far too conservative - Lennon is injured, but why no creative replacement? (Taarabt or Routledge - not even on the bench for Sunderland). We saw it last season too - trying to close games up when we were ahead (v the A**e and Chelski).
Thirdly - do we have a game plan for using Bent? - pumping up long high balls for him to challenge for is never going to work. Why no Huddlestone - our only dece…
I know we have a lot of injuries, and when we get them back we can really judge them and should be able to compete with the best. The thing is, look at the teams we have lost to - even Everton, who are a good side, but on paper are they better than us(even with our injuries)??
When we do have more confidence, that is when we will start beating teams in the top 4. We hardly ever achieve this, where other teams with much less quality do beacuse on the day they believe they can. The manager plays a big part in helping the team BELIEVE they are good enough. A win against Man U away will do wonders for the teams' confidence, and would really set us up for a good season as the shit start would be forgotten. Let us pray!!
But can't understand why he is not playing some of the new talent in midfield unless (and this is a bit worrying) it was DL who bought in the new players and not Jol and BMJ trying to reassert his authority by sticking with the old guard.
As for all you Jenas haters, he's only underperformed for the last 2 years, give the guy a chance :)
COYS