Parky

I'm beginning to wonder if we will beat 'anyone' away.

Dreadful performance so far. We deserve nothing from this game whatsoever. Shocking rubbish. Cleaned out by a physical hard working side - nothing more.

Butt seems almost asleep. His lack of passing is a problem.

Utter shit so far from us. No kind of pattern, silly mistakes, giving the ball away perpetually. Enrique 4/5 hopeful punts in the general direction of Martins has been our contribution so far.

If Reading could finish it would be 2-0. We really have nothing about us atm.

Cacapa v nearly own goal. Shay dawdling....

Gawd sake stop Geremi taking those.

3rd time Butt has has the ball taken off him.

If you play for a 0-0 you often lose. It was an indicator by SA not his plan for this game I'm sure.

We need to get hold of this. Feeling uneasy.

Benny the bad boy Benitez left his last job cause of the dof.

Europeans have a different approach to descision making as we both have experienced Chez.

THat was a pen basically. Owen should have complained a bit more. Keeper no clue where the ball was.

Nice ball into the channel for Owen from Beye. Just a yard too long.

One thing we don't want is to concede early...Our tempo looks a bit slow which is a worry. Wake up!

Barton giving Butt a long talking to just before kick off.

At the end of the day, the buck for the playing side of things must come down to one man. And that is the manager. Its interesting that some of these clubs that have been said to have "good structures" are now falling apart, most notably Spuds and Bolton. If the manager knows what he is doing, then the "planning", and "structure" etc etc fall into place and it becomes the "right system". What I also find faintly ridiculous is that managers with a vision ie SA and Mourinho are deemed to need someone above them TO GUIDE THEM. On another level I think interfering chairman like a DOF as it gives them another card to play and someone who does their bidding. No mistaking Roman and Levy are behing the semi-crisis at their respective clubs.

Damien Comolli is for me the main reason Jol is out of a job at Spurs and the schemer behind the disgraceful handling of a manager who delivered 5th in the PL and almost got them into the CL recently. Comolli was behind the campaign for Ramos and has been chasing him ever since the summer when apparently Spurs directors were 'dissapointed' with Spurs 5th place which says a lot more about them than Jol. Comolli has wanted a man who can fit into the Spurs continental DOF set up and he has also wanted more control something which Jol hasn't been happy with and fought allegedly. It is no surprise to me that Jol has sought advice from the LMA. Avram Grant is another of this type. A manager with paper thin CV has imo cajoled and schemed his way into Chelsea and also imo been whispering in dark corners agains Mourinho (great CV one of the best managers in the game). How the fuck did one of the best managers in the world lose his job and this strange character with hardly any football experience outside of Israel wind up as Chelsea manager? Happy Harry has already come up against two of them almost as if they were stalking him, firstly Velimir Zajec at Pompey, then Sir Clive Woodward from the world of Rugby at Southampton...Happily Harry has outlived them both, perhaps his London bred infighting skills made the differance. DOF's are there to take the pressure off the manager and handle the day to day stuff that affects the side and be a strong influence in long term development which would include player purchuses. Thus far they just look like scheming cunts to me. When Ramos fails I'd like to see Comolli walk as well, but somehow I doubt it. I would be against a DOF system at Newcastle unless expressly chosen and desired by Allardyce.

Very camp.

Not worried.

Good post.

Ramos will fail at Spurs. © Parky.

Happy. Things are coming together and soon all our options on the pitch will be evaluated by SA. I still would like to see him bring in more quality at Christmas....I think he will. Most happy with Enrique.

I'm not sure if they really believe it is a relegation scrap... that could be the thing that saves them or the thing that sends them down. I hear what you're saying. Personally, I don't think they're in a false position and there's a lot of work to be done. If Ledley King doesn't come back, they'll need to bring in a top class defender in January, and that might not be easy. I think you're right though - they think they're a great team in disguise and that could be fatal. People are quoting other managers who have been new to the Premiership, but Spurs are in a much more tricky situation. Mourinho took over a club who'd finished second in the league and he was given £100 million to spend. Benitez took over a top four club and hasn't really pushed them much further forward. Wenger did extremely well, but he inherited a superb defence that was the bedrock of his later success. All three were able to take over a club in the close season, with time to prepare and make their mark. Ramos will really have to hit the ground running. Spurs really need a fire-fighter, not a visionary. Good post. The Spurs situation is more serious than is apparent at casual glance, they can't take 10 more games to get going under the new manager and they can't afford to lose Berb at Christmas...Both are possibilites imo. Things need to be put right from the get go. It will be a tough battle for Ramos. I'm not sure he is the right man personally. I'd have gone for Klinsmann.