What’s Wrong With You Lot

Article by Chris Mecoy

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First of all, I’d like to say to any Spurs fan who agrees with the following article, that what I write is in no way directed at you. I’d also like to state that my views do not necessarily mirror the views of my fellow e-Spurs writers or its staff.

Right, a little about me. I was born in 1982, and raised into an almost exclusively Tottenham supporting family. I vaguely remember, at the age of 5, the F.A. Cup Final loss to Coventry. I adopted Paul Allen, an unsung hero of Tottenham if there ever was one, as my idol, a position he still holds for me. I became a season ticket holder as a 10 year old boy in 1992, and Spurs became one of the most important things in my life. I am Spurs through and through. My fiancée is driven crazy by how much I go on about my team, and I have a ten month old daughter, who, I’m proud to say, is already responding to watching Tottenham on T.V.

Yet now, early 2014, for the first time in my life, I’m slightly ashamed to be a loyal member of the Yid Army.

Is it the players? No
Is it the manager? No
Is it the chairman? No
It’s down to a depressingly large section of my fellow......ahem.....’fans’.

SHERWOOD OUT? You’re joking, right?

Now, I’d like to point out that, like many of you, I’m sure, Tim Sherwood wasn’t my first choice as manager. Personally would have preferred Michael Laudrup or Frank De Boer, but I digress. The fact is that Tim Sherwood is the man in charge, and he hasn’t really done anything to warrant being sacked. I’m not even asking you, I’m telling you.

No, we are not playing the style of football that many of us would like to see, but unfortunately the need for beautiful football does have to play second fiddle to getting the results right now. I actually hate myself a bit for saying that, but it’s true. Tim Sherwood is a man who is down to Earth, and is therefore fully aware that there are a large number of high-profile managers out there who want his job, so it is a case of ‘3 points by any means necessary’ as far as he’s concerned.

If you add to the equation a little fact that many of you have forgotten, the majority of recent Spurs managers can be sorted into two columns. Either they were managers who tried their best to implement pretty attacking football into the team (Redknapp, Hoddle, and Jol, for example), or they were managers that played dull football and won trophies (Graham and Ramos).

It truly hurts to say, but pretty football does not bring success.

Tim Sherwood has picked up 6 wins and 2 draws in his 9 League matches in charge. That’s 20 points from a possible 27, at a points per game ratio of 2.22, and he has made a better start as a Spurs manager than ALL who preceded him.

Let’s take into account Sherwood’s stats against the other managers above us in the same timeframe?

Jose Mourinho, a man who has had success wherever he goes – 23 points in last 9 games.
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Manuel Pellegrini, whose team are most people’s favourites to win the title – 22 points in last 9 games.

Arsene Wenger, whose Arsenal side have been top for months – 20 points in last 9 games.

Brendan Rodgers, manager of a team who have now entered the title race – 17 points in last 9 games.

Tim Sherwood’s record is not too far off title winning form, and his points per game average would get 84 points over the course of a season, a total which is FAR higher than our current highest points total.

Now, there are many of us who accept these facts as true, and who are more than happy to give Timmy to the end of the season AT LEAST to show what he can do, but unfortunately, there is this growing number of fans, many of whom probably supported someone else during the dark days under Gross and Graham, who seem hell-bent on trying to make situations worse at the club than they are.

After last nights annihilation of a top 10 side away from home, Spurs are currently sitting 7 (YES SEVEN!!) points off of top with winnable games against struggling Norwich and Cardiff to come. This is after......no, despite of, an 11-1 aggregate thrashing at the hands of Man City, having our backsides handed to us at home by Liverpool, a 0-3 humiliation at the Lane against the average at best West Ham of all people, 7 new signings, from 6 different countries, speaking 6 different languages, AND sacking our manager halfway through the season.

These fans who are slagging us off can think whatever they like, but I for one am absolutely DELIGHTED at how this season is shaping up right now.

So, in closing, either support your team through thick and thin, or get the Hell out, because we don’t need you, we don’t want you, and the Yid Army will still be standing tall long after you’ve left!!

COME ON YOU SPURS

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