we are 3 points and 14 goals better off than last season, with 2 games to go
and we are 5 points and 3 goals behind the season before (CL qualifying season) - so we can better that season as well
and we are 14 points and 23 goals better off than the season HR took over
this is some shocking descent into hell.
all the anti crowd can come up with is that -
in their opinion
HR talks to the press too much, and doesn't aggressively talk up the team or the club -
He has slagged off Spurs fans
He "hitched his skirt" for the England job
He let us lose a 10 point lead (?)
He is tactically worse than they all are at managing premier league teams
He has taken us as far as he can
He is commenting on the euros so he isn't looking for new players and will be slating Hodgson
He only buys old knackered players
He is a disreputable revenue cheat who takes bungs
He shafts all of the teams he manages
From a positive perspective - and in my opinion
The facts at the top make more sense to me and show growth and improvement as a trend, and I believe he is still the most successful manager Spurs have ever had. He was harrangued by Spurs fans moaning about the lack of success and he stood up foir himself saying that they were deluded. I cant see where he was wrong, and they were right.
I like Harry, he's pretty straight with the press, doesn't seem to indulge in the mind games crap you get from other managers, and tells it like it is Thats my opinion though, and I can see why some dont like it, even though I disagree with their opinion.
In his honesty he said he saw the pinnacle of management for an Englishman to be England manager. If thats hitching his skirt, then my arse is a candlestick. Made no difference anyhoo, as he wasn't chosen. I think the only people who let it affect them, apart from the anti phalanx, were the players, who went down a notch. Thats how important Harry is to this club, but that fact is lkargely ignored. In my opinion.
The anti phalanx all see him as tactically inept, but the results seem to indicate otherwise - a fact also ignored. Maybe Mourinho, Wenger, Fergie, Guardiola all log on as the usual suspects in the critical section?
The debate about players he buys. Hmm - kind of ignors the commonsense theory that he can only spend what the board allow him to have - and he can only entice players who want to come. I doubt Harry wants Saha and Nelsen, in all reality. But this - according to some is so that he can buy and sell players managed by accommodating agents - "who see him right."
He shafts the teams he manages.
This is from Wiki, so it might not be wholly accurate
doing a bit of trend analysis, I'd say from looking at that -
that Harry has been more successful at winning than losing
More often than not teams are more successful under his tenure
He appears to be improving as a manager
His results at Spurs indicate that to be true also.
But lets not let the facts or results get in the way
Lets talk football.
Spurs are all about style, we have always said, that playing well and playing the right way is more important than winning. Well, we've had to really, haven't we?
I've only been watching the club since 67, but whilst I don't have a season ticket I get to as many games as I can (I'm not a total plastic who watches from thousands of miles away and wouldn't know the seven Sisters Road from the Champs Elysee, I have actually attended hundreds of games and seen the stadium change from a brick hole to a tidy little ground) - and I can say that the current Tottenham team is the most exciting to watch, the side that I have more confidence in than any other side I have witnessed and probably the hardest to beat. On top of all that, I think Danny would agree that we have kept to his maxim, and teams bring their bus onto the pitch, or get gutted by us.
and who manages this team of ours?
Quite possibly the most insulted manager I have ever had the dissapointment and disgust to have witnessed the abuse aimed at. I think he gets more brick than Graham, and his teams were awful to watch, by and large.
This is what Spurs fans have descended to.
and I think its a shame.