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Sherwood Scores an Own Goal

Tim Sherwood from a position of weakness has taken on club idol Glenn Hoddle in a war of words. The fans can see the ineptitude of the current regime, we can see the players couldn't care less about results and performances.

Sherwood scores an own goal


Sherwood himself has criticised his players over their attitude and publicly rebuked them after the Chelsea humiliation. Former players like Match of the Day host Gary Lineker and pundit Hoddle felt publicly shaming the players was a mistake and the fastest way to lose the dressing room.

"It's a different era now," said Hoddle at the time. "I agree he was very honest but personally that's something you say in the dressing room to the players. You might come out and disguise what your feelings are.

"He's being tested now. His testing time is coming now because of this result and other results like Norwich away. That's when Tim Sherwood is going to be tested as a manager.

"But it's not his fault that his players went and made those mistakes, they were individual mistakes.

"That's not down to the manager. He didn't set them up to make those mistakes."

Clearly the dressing room has been lost, the Liverpool performance was a disgrace and the attitude of the players before the game suggested they were not keyed up for it, which the performance confirmed they weren't.

Hoddle could clearly see that and told Sky viewers, "I didn’t like them in tunnel. Vertonghen was leaning against the wall with two hands behind his back.

"They were too relaxed, too flimsy, chatting away, coming here with no steel - and they’ve conceded a dreadful goal straight away.

"You see a little bit of urgency from Tottenham when they have the ball but when Liverpool get it there’s no urgency, no closing down, no energy to win it in the middle third."

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Tim Sherwood has attempted to hit back but just like his side has scored a massive own goal.

“It’s been a long time since Glenn Hoddle’s managed a football team and the game has moved on quite significantly. I’m not saying that it’s anything to do with whether the body language is correct or not, but that wouldn’t have been brought up if we had won the game."

But Tim there was never ever any chance of Spurs winning the game so that is pretty irrelevant. It has been a long time since Tim Sherwood managed a football club, in fact he hasn't so his game moved on remarks are ill advised. If he can't see that the body language of his players shows they couldn't care less then he is blind or hopeless.

“I think you can look at history at some teams who played very well from the outset, probably won the game very easily, and some of them might have been leaning on the walls and doing that, but it never would have been brought up."

Well the fact is they wouldn't have been leaning on the walls because that is not the behaviour of someone mentally on edge and chaneling their nervous energy into a top performance. The man in the street knows that, shouldn't our manager?


Sherwood scores an own goal


“I’ve been a pundit myself. It’s easy to look for something when you’ve got nothing else to talk about, other than to be critical of your ex-side.”

Well if there was something to praise he would but let's be totally honest, which you are not being Mr Sherwood, there isn't anything to praise apart from the professionalism of a few isolated players.


7 comments

  1. With the exception of Eriksen (and perhaps Soldado) the only player who gives a crap week in week out, Sherwood let go to Fulham!!!!
    Someone, for christ's sake, go get Glenn!!!! ( and Lewis too while you're at it)
  2. Dim Shsrwood picks Bentaleb instead of Paulinho because the Brazilans attitude in training apparently isnt right. But he doesnt see that chatting to, smiling at and hugging opponents before one of our biggest games of the season also shows the wrong attitude. We looked like a pub team about to play our mates from the Dog and Duck. Socialise after the game if you must but not beforehand. Hoddle isnt the messiah but he knows a shedload more about management than Dim....who cant influence a game from the touchline apparently. So Mourinho and Benitez and Fergie are all wrong in being in contact with their players during the game? .or maybe they have influence because they also have respect. Goodbye Tim....enjoy being manager at QPR in the Championship next season.
  3. I'm convinced Sherwood will still at Spurs in some capacity upstairs. Who would employ him as a manager now? Blackburn Rovers must be pleased they didn't. Levy and Sherwood get on and Levy values him, probably because he is not a yes man.

    Sherwood I'm sure still will be influential at Spurs, he has been excellent overseeing youth development so I can see him having a greater role in player recruitment and scouting. The negotiations would then be left to Baldini.
  4. I'm not sure where you can claim that TS and DL are bossom palls Clive, he's one of those creeps we have all worked along side, the type that keeps on running to the boss to undermine his work mates, he's useless and I can't see DL keeping him on in any capacity to undermine a professional Manager. The sooner he goes the better, before we lose any decent players we still have.
  5. It has been well reported in the media that Sherwood is Levy's blue eyed boy and that he rates him very highly. He put Tim in the role for a reason. The type of person you talk about, you may dislike but how many of them do bosses actually get rid of? None they get promoted, they do well, you still resent them and stay where you are. Sherwood has already indicated when he said he would'nt do the number 2 role that a suitable role will need to be found for him. That tells me that Levy told him before he took the job as an interim (that Tim hoped would go well) that there was a role for him afterwards whatever happened. It would be a shock if he left the club, where would he go, what would he do? He isn't going back to youth development so upstairs is the obvious place.
  6. Sherwood is there to do a hatchet job,try and find out if our abundance of midfeilders,thanks avb,can play anywhere else.Try some of the youngsters see how they get on,as development manager he's probaly better at that than most of our "very expert" fans.
  7. Yes been suggesting he play them for a while with the season being long over.