Spurs Lame At The Lane

So the game is done and the autopsy began even before the final whistle rung around White Hart Lane like tumbleweed through a graveyard. The chorus of boos were loud and to some extent deserved, but with a great manager such as Ramos at the helm (and yes he is that good), we would only be taking another 10 steps South if we were to lose him now. The fickle finger of football fortune today points its ravaged finger and bitten nail towards us. Elsewhere according to the same Man Citeh fans who wanted everyone sacked a few weeks ago, they are now the best team on earth!

Watching at White Hart Lane on Sunday, surrounded by boos and jeers, I could not help but feel that football, no The Premier League in particular, has lost the plot. Yes this may sound like sour grapes as we are struggling at the moment with little confidence and other teams seemingly moving on to bigger things as we languish in Neverland, however I beg to differ.

Last season when we were only a small amount of luck and the width of a goalpost better off than we are now at this stage, I was part of the boo boys calling for Big Mart to face the chop and bemoaning his negative tactics and lack of respect a minority of the players seemed to have for him. Maybe this season I am a little older and wiser or both, but when the boos and venom escorted the players from the field at half time on Sunday, I almost felt as disappointed with the fellow fans with whom I share my afternoons of pain down The Lane as I did with the players who had shown us so little.

Now I'm a bad loser, which makes me far from an ideal Spurs fan i guess and over the years there have been times and defeats which have resulted in a weekend of sulking and avoiding any form of football coverage in the media (I'll grow up one day). This season though i just cannot help but feel sorry for Ramos and the situation he now finds himself in. There were rumours at the weekend that he was homesick and to be honest at the moment I wouldn't blame him if he wanted to walk away from the club and the ludicrous structure that the board have put in place and by that I am referring to the Director of Football position.

If we, Tottenham Hotspur, are to ever become a force again, which at the moment seems about as possible as a Robbie Keane header, we MUST give Ramos total charge a la Wenger & Ferguson. Maybe I was blinded to this by my love of Spurs and wanting the structure to work for the best. Whatever the reason previously, now I am passionately against the Director of Football post and having more than 1 person choosing and buying players. Of course I'm not naive enough to think that Messrs Fergie and Wenger do absolutely everything at their clubs but 1 thing I am sure of is if they say jump, everyone jumps.

The messy end to the transfer window which saw us become an unofficial feeder club to Man Yoo, training up one of their potential stars only for them for them to whip him back off of us if he does well and a number of reportedly failed efforts to lure other targets saw us left limp sided and weak in a number of blatantly obvious area. Yes I agree, Berbs and Keano wanted to go, in fact I did not want them anywhere near our club after Levy's announcement, but leaving the signing of any replacements for theses players till the last minute when we knew weeks/months before that they wanted out, seems to me nothing short of shocking! What must have been going through Ramos' mind as the seconds ticked away and replacements were as distant as a Berbatov smile?

In summary, yes i am upset, disappointed, worried and depressed with the current form of the team, but a note to all those who booed at half time on Sunday, think about what Ramos has achieved during the latter part of his career and the style and type of players he brings with him. Now think about the men who are supposed to provide him with the tools in the form of players capable of big things and the finance in order to broker the deal (even if it means stretching an extra few million for a top drawer player and not trying to be too clever). Maybe Ramos and the team deserve some support and patience after all and maybe, just maybe, there are people who occupy seats in the West Upper who deserve the jeers far more and have four very sweaty palms at this moment in time.

My player points for the game were as follows:

Gomes 7, Zokora 6, Corluka 7, Woodgate 5, Assou-Ekotto 6, Bentley 5, (Lennon 8), Jenas 5, O'Hara 7, Bale 6 ,(Huddlestone 6), Pavlyuchenko 6, (Campbell 7), Bent 6.

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