Hard job As jobs go, there are none more tiresome and predictable than being a Spurs fan. And yes, it is a job. I have no choice you see. It’s an emotional necessity for me to follow this team in and out of the abyss, year after year. A never-ending juggernaut of disappointment and mediocrity. […]
Finger pointing There’s a lot of finger pointing and blame apportioning (is that a word?) going on at White Hart Lane. As the 2003/4 season looks more and more like being the worst one since the 70s, everyone is looking for a scapegoat. The board are the latest to feel the heat as Spurs sank […]
Doldrums You would be hard pressed to justify the opinion that Jack Charlton’s success with the Irish team was a double-edged sword. For all the glorious years we spent near the top of world football, the relative doldrums we have experienced since 1995 have been a real come down for the fans. Only for those […]
Premiership season preview It’s that time of year again – the one where I show myself to be the worst predictor since Nostradamus. So in alphabetical order here is how I see the league turning out. Arsenal Last season (LS): 2nd In: Phillippe Senderos (Servette, undisc.), Gael Clichy (Cannes, £250,000), Jens Lehmann (Borussia Dortmund, £1.5m). […]
Sell sell sell If you had have told me that Tottenham would spend the summer off-loading deadwood, I would have told you that lucid dreaming is as good as life will get for Spurs fans. But it’s true. Glenn Hoddle and ENIC have finally done what should have been done twelve months ago – sent […]
Rebuild As another disappointing season comes to a close, there is one major question that is on the lips of some Spurs fans – well me anyway. Glenn Hoddle – do we rebuild with, or without him? There have been a lot of excuses made for Glenn, and some might say that he deserves to […]
Celebrate. Come on. My fiftieth column should be a happy occasion. A ticker tape procession, a deluge of well-wishers filling up column inches in your regular tabloid. ‘He’s always been a light in the sea of dark,’ said one fictitious well-known actor. ‘He scares the bejaysus out of your average commentator,’ uttered one non-existent journalist. […]
Old men I’m baffled by what I’ve just witnessed on TV. Former Irish internationals and regular television pundits, Eamonn Dunphy and Johnny Giles, have just poured scorn on the appointment of Brian Kerr as the new Ireland manager. Am I being naive to believe so strongly that Kerr is the best appointment? Or are Dunphy […]
Absence Absence makes the heart grow fonder they say. Well after ten months living in the rather physically and socially isolated environment of New Zealand, I think I can safely say that this is a load of bollocks. Moving 20,000km away from Spurs manager Glenn Hoddle has not made me any more accepting of him […]
Question mark A big question mark hangs over Premiership sides this season, and one might say, over the big European leagues as a whole. As small clubs go to the wall (Clydebank and Airdrie in Scotland, folded this year), big clubs feel the pinch (Valencia, Lazio, Chelsea and Leeds are reportedly tens of millions in […]
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