Trash of the Titans
My God, doesn’t the Premiership table look grim. I’ve been ignoring it under the idea that the season has barely started and what’s the point until we get a few games under our belts. Foolishly, I took a glance this morning, wanting to get a better look at the weekend’s action, having spent Saturday and Sunday with LB at wedding and a christening or someway between the two - neither were ours, by the way.
In case you, like I, have had your head in the sand, by tonight a quarter of the season will have already gone and so far we’ve got one win and a measley seven points. How very measley. Meanwhile, the likes of Blackburn and Pompey lie basking on the beach in the warmth of a healthy 18. As for Man City, forget about it. I suppose at the least, Chelsea aren’t feeling too clever either.
More to the point we have yet another chance to begin to remedy the situation by grabbing another team by the nose long enough for them to swallow some of our bitter medecine, and bitter it is right now.
Tonight’s opponents are doing rather nicely themselves with 14 points, the loathesome Sam Allardyce at the helm, hot on the helm of Chelsea and the top end of the table, and two games in hand on most of the other clubs. We haven’t had a lot of success up at St. James’s Park with a battering at the hands of an on song Lauren Robert still fresh in my memory along with his two wonder goals that fill you with a sense of bitter admiration.
Perhaps it’s just a case of that Monday morning vibe but I sense a cold day in hell before we get three points up there. Fortunately, it’s bloody freezing today today and I have what I can feel of my fingers crossed that this cold snap is eminating from Satan’s grotto.
MJ certainly doesn’t feel my pessimism with the kind of trash talk that’s going to make him, the players and the travelling Spurs suffer some nasty taunting should we be on the receiving end of a “right kicking”. He said:
“We had European football for the last two years and they didn’t. It would be fantastic for them if they were in the first six or seven - playing European football next season would be a good achievement for them.”
“We already did that twice so it’s different. We are in the group stages of the UEFA Cup and they would love to do that as well.”
As far as I remember, Newcastle were the last team outside the current Big Four to ever get a go in the Champions League - Everton failure before the group stages aside. That’s the kind of I vision that I wake from, go to the shower. brush my teeth and realised that my sheets are attached.
I guess these are Mourinho confidence boosting tactics. Either that or MJ’s picking a fight with Sam “elephantiasis of the head” Allardyce. Maybe this is the day we get to find out who the hardest manager in the Premiership is. We need to get Roy Keane involved. Some sort of tripple threat match, perhaps?
My musings must be brief, as per norm on the Monday Bagel these days and hopefully I’ll see you all on the other side feeling a lot more chipper and six places higher in the table. But in the mean time, check what nearly slipped beneath my radar and something about which I’m rather upset. Son of Spur Almighty, Gary Linneker, has been signed by Chelsea! And I don’t use exclamation marks lightly.
Eleven-year-old Tobias Linneker - apparently not Tobias the Yid - has joined the Blues academy. Dropped the ball on that one, didn’t you Gary? Hopefully he’ll defect when he develops a personality of his own and realise it’s not cool to be a glory hunter or maybe he’ll just discover drugs and music and waste all of Chelsea’s investment. So, if you see him out, either drag him to the Lane or get him stoned and while you’re at it, give me a shout.
“The thing about high school girls - I keep gettin’ older, they just stay the same bagel.”
The Bagel.
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October 22nd, 2007 at 10:05 pm
7 points out of 30 says it all really.
People scorned the chairman for trying to secure a new manager before things got this bad, maybe it was simply a case of good foresight? Looks like he was proved right. Now what? Surely we can’t hang around until the end of the season to get Ramos in, something MUST be done now in order to salvage any hope of a decent finish to the season.
COY FUCKING SPURS
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:05 pm
evening yids
you know im starting to feel sorry for jol, this relegation battle your in is all down to your incompatent backstabbing treacherous board. who would want to work for them snakes.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Pesky, didn’t see your post before posting mine. I don’t blame the board for this, I think they simply saw it coming and tried to act to prevent it.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
maybe …but they should of just gave him the bullet before the season started(they didnt have the balls though) or stick by him and see how he goes , but how can you expect jol to do a job after the ramos incident? he didnt stand a chance. he should of quit! seems your board wanted it both ways, like not dumping your misses until you have another bird lined up, because you dont want to be alone!
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Wrong!
The board got wind of Jol listening to offers. They then tried to sound out replacements, and got caught. They then embarked on the worst PR effort evah!.
Wilson is right, and something needs to be done very quickly now.
Good grief it’s all too depressing.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:37 pm
was he … i didnt know that, why didnt they sack him straight away then especially as some managers would not take another mans job! i think!
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:42 pm
what would yazz say!!!!!!
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:46 pm
I agree Jol was bound to lose some charisma after finding out that his job was being offered around but the whole idea was that he didn’t find out (just like in your proverbial love triangle!).
Levy thought he had it sorted. He’d send a delegation out to Spain to butter up Ramos with a huge financial offer, wait for him to accept, get Jol out and Ramos in before anyone outside of those select few had an inkling, problem solved.
You know who I blame for all of this? That bloody photographer!
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Sorry that was to Pesky.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
‘I feel we have had a pretty good spell (three successive draws), the only thing we needed was more wins. A win today and we would have been fine,’
Sounds like Jol is already talking in past tense in this post-match quote…
The three draws was not, for me, a ‘pretty good spell’.
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:35 pm
Well, here we are a quarter of the way through the season & it does not get much more dire than this
My eldest son, Dimitar sulking around (looks like he needs a good kick up the arse) Dawson switching off, Jenas an absolute shocker, Zokora all over the shop, Lennon still trying to find where he left that rich vein of form that got him to the last world cup (has he looked under his bed? it could be there, that’s where Mini Yid finds most of his stuff) I’m inclined to agree that it’s now long overdue to ring the changes before it’s too late to rescue our season
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:45 am
Oh lordy!!! What is going on? I don’t really blame Jol entirely to be fair. The players must take some/most blame IMO. Dawson is going backwards, Kaboul thinks he’s a midfielder, Chimbonda thinks he’s a winger, and King is still out!! We can’t defend for SHIT! Also I’ve lost patience with Jenas, he is fucking shit. He wouldn’t get into any but 5/6 teams in the EPL. Zokora is OK but there is no way he’s a defensive midfielder, don’t get me started on Bentboy, I’ll just ask this, Did we really spend 17 million British pounds on this piece of shit?
This was a must win game tonight IMO, why OH why was Berba and Lennon on the bench? And when Lennon came on he was played on the left? WHAT. THE. FUCK??? Jol must take blame there cos those tactics were shit to say the least. And don’t come out with any “Oh, we’ve got Getafe on Thursday, we need our big-guns rested” shit -thats absolutely ludicrous! WE ARE 3RD FROM FUCKING BOTTOM FFS!
BTW Pesky, the only mistake the board made was getting caught, every club does it don’t talk shit pal.
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:41 am
FightThefuture
You’re spot on mate with your last comment, every club does do it, Spurs got caught
I can’t argue against much of your comments, only sigh & nod in agreement. We’ve now got to look forward & concentrate on getting maximum pointe from Blackburn (H) Middlesbrough (A) Wigan (H)
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:58 am
I’ve just heard on Sky Sports News that Berbatov had to be told THREE TIMES before he got up off his arse & began his warm up. If he’s turned in to a moody git than we can do without it, either that or Jol’s lost him & possibly others in the dressing room. That said, Berbatov was crap at the first game of the season & sulked when he was subbed off.
Anyway, it’s not just Berbatov, Jenas I’ve never really rated, along with a lot of other Spurs fans, Zokora is never going to be a defending midfielder, Dawson is having short term memory loss, regaining it only once the ball is in the net, Chimbonda loves going forward but is always slow in getting back, Kaboul wants to be a midfielder, the list goes on… We all await the return of Ledley, but in what shape & form? He’ll never be the full Ledley after all the knee problems, so he’ll possibly not be up for a full 90 minutes, even if he can manage 90, he may be looking at playing one game & sitting out the next
Changes in fortune & or regime are needed now