martin, dear martin…

I love Martin Jol, but he’s not exactly endearing himself to me. I’m getting it everywhere this morning.

Last night was one of the most uninspiring performances by a Tottenham side I’ve seen. And I’ve seen a lot of games now. Not one player covered himself in even the remotest part of glory. What makes it worse is Newcastle are not good. They are not a good football side.

Much has been written about Levy, Kemsley, Ramos and Jol. Now’s not the time to go over it again. The board have completely destabilised and ruined what we had, for once it seemed like our potential wasn’t fictional, it was real and we just needed to do things the right way.

But the fact is now, we’re in crisis. What can we do to redress the balance defensively, to make us tighter? Play Gardner or Rocha? It won’t do a thing. Just make it worse. Send in a no-confidence keeper to stabilise a back four led by Dawson in crisis? It’s ludicrous.

There was no other way to win that game last night, against to be fair, a poor Newcastle side. They were there for a taking, a decent side would have ripped into them and sliced them apart.

But the one thing I can’t forget or delete is that last night Jol had a chance, even after 20 mins or however long to prove he was a Tottenham man. When Bale limped off the pitch, he had a chance. Replace him with Lennon, no matter how poor he’s been this season and indicate we were there to win the game. Or bring on Tainio, which shows we’re there to draw the game. A negative substitution which indicates the team we will ‘play it safe’. We can’t ‘play it safe’. We can’t defend.

He needs to ignore all the politics, wipe his glazed over eyes and realise there are players who don’t care and do not give a flying f what happens. Jenas should not be anywhere near the team. Bent is either a ridiculously fragile confidence player or the biggest con in history. But it’s done now, and we only have our players.

Now there’s a choice, sack Jol or keep him. Eventually he’ll go, we all know it but we have a chance now.

Look at the next games…  Three at home: Getafe, Blackburn, Blackpool. Then Boro, H. Tel Aviv, Wigan, West Ham, Aalborg, Birmingham, Anderlecht, Man City, Portsmouth, then Arsenal.

Until Arsenal, they are all winnable games. Fact. They are all games that we now HAVE to win.

There’s only one thing to do, on Thursday and forever more until Jol goes, support the team. Three home wins, no matter who they’re against, will breed confidence.

Disillusioned? Naïve? I don’t care. And when all the once a season prats turn up on Thursday, I will sing my heart out. Put it in the past and support your team.

Come on you lilywhites. It’s time to stand up and be counted. And not just for the manager, for your own self-respect.

J.

hope-less…

This is the funniest interiew I’ve seen in ages… it’s exceptional, Sigur Rós, simply the most wonderful band, simply the worst interview I’ve ever seen. The interviewer is so crap, and I’ve done a few bad ones in my time, but he’s AWFUL. His questions are just completely non-researched, encouraging the ridiculous monosyballic answers. Got what he deserved.

virgin media…

…are shit.