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straight choice between sherwood and pardew then yeah sherwood every time, choice between sherwood and the thousands of other managers out there though? fuck off sherwood he's got potential to be a much bigger cunt than pardew tbh; "Tim Sherwood, a "source" told the Sun in January, "is not afraid to speak out". Thanks, "source". We hadn't noticed. As the man himself said this week, "I am singing it from the heart, not from the script – I'm not an actor, I work on impulse." On Thursday night he impulsively declared that Benfica's finger-waving manager Jorge Jesus "lacks class", and what's more he thinks it would be a good idea to ignore him completely when Spurs are in Lisbon for their Big Vase round of whatever second leg. "Nah, not for me thank you," he declared. "I have no intention of speaking to him." Good plan, Tim. If you don't much like someone, it's often best to avoid them completely. And he wouldn't be the first Spurs manager to refuse to talk to a person he considered disrespectful, after all. Glenn Hoddle did it once, when one particularly insolent player criticised him in the press. Midfielder, this player was. Name of Sherwood. "The day after the article came out I tried to have a meeting with Hoddle," he sobbed. "He just said, 'I don't want to talk to you.' And those were the last words he ever said to me … In the end, the situation got so bad I wrote a formal letter of grievance." OK, but a man's allowed to change his mind, isn't he? And to his great credit, Sherwood seems a principled chap. Take, for example, his criticism of Dimitar Berbatov in 2007, towards the end of the sulky Bulgarian's time at Spurs. "He is a big character in the dressing room and if he starts poisoning the rest of the boys you've had it," Sherwood said. "You need players in this situation, players who are going to fight for you." Like Sherwood himself fought for his managers. Take, say, Mr Roy at Blackeye Rovers, who wistfully recalled: "Tim became very disenchanted with the club. Being such an important character, his discontent was able to spread to a lot of other players. These people didn't have the strength of character or experience to stand up to somebody who was finding fault with most things." Finding fault with most things, eh? Doesn't sound like Tim. He just sings from the heart. And, besides, he was younger then, and still learning. He's older now. Wiser. "When you get to this late stage of your career," he said a full decade ago, "you do start to think about the possibility of management and what you have learned from your different bosses." So, let's see exactly what he's learned, and how well he learned it: Thing No1: "George Graham has a simple philosophy: 'If you don't lose goals you don't lose games.' If there's a secret behind his success, I think that's it." Result: Spurs, having kept a clean sheet in 54% of games this season before his appointment, have been running at 29% since. Thing No2: "I've learned a hell of a lot from Glenn Hoddle – and all of it his how not to do the job. His biggest fault is he has absolutely no man-management skills. The art of successful management involves keeping everyone in the squad happy." The result: Sherwood accuses his players of being "lazy and unprofessional" and "too nice to each other". He shouldn't have to worry about their feelings, he reveals: "They are men. I'm a manager, not a babysitter." Thing No3: "Kenny Dalglish's great managerial talent was that not only did he know every one of his own players but everybody else's as well. He would study the opposition and tell us what their players were good and bad at. He was a genius, the absolute guv'nor." Result: Luisão left totally unmarked by an ill-prepared Spurs defence at set pieces and scores for Benfica. Twice. In summary, don't pay any attention to anything the man says. Or does. Many moons ago, when the Fiver was just a glint in Tim Berners-Lee's eye, the PFA used to publish, on actual paper, an annual guide to England's professional footballers. One of them once attempted to summarise Sherwood's character in two words. The ones they chose? "Previously enigmatic"."

he might go and beat liverpool at anfield, shatter their confidence, take the PL and then win the CL and if he does he's an absolute legend (already is of course) would still be funnier if he crashed and burned this time just 'cause it's chelsea

I'm completely the same Nothing this season hopefully, spend a fortune on strikers in the summer while throwing lukaku away then fail again next season and they'll start to turn on him.

Patented Pardew collapse with him on the bench this time could seal his fate tbh. Doubtful it'll come before the season ends though.

i've always been pretty ok with mourinho winning stuff, even him coming back to chelsea for the second time, but i'm starting to hope he fails now and the wheels come off - want to see how long it'll take the chelsea fans to turn on him

I view it that Ashley will gamble on Pardew being able to repeat this season and do enough in the first half to make us (relatively) safe. If we are not in immediate danger of relegation in Dec/Jan, his position is safe. by all accounts though he was on the brink of sacking pardew for last season but gave him another chance (due to ewrup), the second half of this season might wake him up bearing in mind it's conclusive proof that pardew can only succeed if ashley bankrolls him with quality players all the time...fairly confident ashley isn't after a manager like that, let alone one that is also reducing the value of the assets he has already shelled out for on a weekly basis these are the small winnets of hope we have to cling onto at the moment

Not sure what Pulis would be able to do with Carr's Frenchies like. His Palace side seem much easier on the eye than his Stoke team ever did tbf.

We'll beat Cardiff imo. Pardew the mackem legend.

Pulis? Jesus, such a shit rumour it's probably true.

Fucking shithouses

No bonuses for the useless fuckers if 11th and Pardew will have failed his remit. Might be the only way he gets canned. Depends how much the bonuses are, if they amount to more than one place in the pl then Ashley will be delighted with 11th.

I thought we'd gone in one up, score popped up on the tablet and I half pumped the air and went "yes" when I saw they'd got one back. This is what Pardew had reduced me u to.

Him wanting the sack seems like the only logical reason for that team tbh. The alternative is as a professional football manager he thinks it's the right thing to do

Aye ta lads, it's too fucking young for this shit man.

Begging to be fired with that line up surely? Good time for him, he'll get another job easy enough and a payoff.

She and they speak very little English like so there's little I can say to any if them unfortunately. Monday will be a rough day like.

My wife's niece goes under the knife Monday for some rare type of throat cancer. 15 years old for fucks sake. Met up with her and her family today, she was remarkably carefree tbh.

CD will be after you for that comment, careers on the line as they might get 'found out' and we've got everything to lose...not sure what, like. He can fuck off in advance then Decades of established failure vs. throwing in the best and brightest we have and seeing what happens in a tournament we have no chance of winning anyway. I know where I stand.

My word if that's the team

I think England have been one-paced for too long at international level, both in their personnel and the style of play. Look at how the Germans revived themselves by throwing bairns in and going at teams like they were English Sterling, Lallana, Barkley, Sturridge, Shaw etc. just throw them in, what have we got to lose? Pardew would be the perfect England manager in many ways, he could spend months convincing everyone the world is against them before picking a team of ageing grafters who lose in the tournament. Again. Throw them in for fucks sakes, there won't be another WC for 4 years.

We're terrible at home mind, suppose we shouldn't forget that in our assumed pre-win despair

This cunt will fluke a win aye, and he'll be utterly unbearable in the press. The hate for him on here will explode

Keep up dude, gate size is utterly irrelevant in modern football, it's not where the money is. /ianw etc Makes you wonder why Ashley didn't pay peanuts for a Leicester or Boro to advertise his shit.

Think you are over hyping Barkley a bit yes he has played very well this season and scored some good goals but he's still very young making the cross decision and giving away the ball cheaply. Give him a few more seasons and he has the potential to be an England starter but for this World Cup i think its a bit too early. Couldn't disagree more, he has the look of a big game player to me. Also the finished article? I've been watching England groom 'finished articles' for more than 25 years and it's never done us any good whatsoever. If the alternative was much better than Henderson then yeah, but it's not. Henderson will get laughed off the pitch at a world cup man, if they even bother to consider he's there. Where would you fit him in the first 11? Rooney is already occupying his best position Same as Kanji posted with him instead of Henderson. I'd have the same front three as well, tell them to interchange who takes the wide forward spots and rotate between Sterling and Rooney for the '10'.

some truth to this, he's had such an easy ride i reckon it's rocked his world tbh