TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood wants to see a "blood and thunder" encounter when his side host north London rivals Arsenal on Sunday.

Fifth-placed Spurs are six points behind fourth-placed Arsenal, who are seven points behind Premier League leaders Chelsea.

"I don't think there is much blood and thunder these days - I want it to be more of that," said Sherwood.

"I think that gives us the edge. We are more functional than they are."

red card/serious injury sweepstake

there's a return of the repressed ambience about tim sherwood, get rid of the technocrat and appoint mediocre expro with no experience, who loses first game at home playing a 442 with two forwards and touchline wingers under orders to 'fill up the box' but thinks he deserves the job fulltime

― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 December 2013 03:55 (2 months ago)

functional connotes rudimentary, unreconstructed, real rather than anything to do with....functioning like a properly managed team might be expected to

Sherwood's appointment has highlighted so much that is antediluvian about English football discourse.

you wanna be sacking your english managers and hiring european sophisticates, it's the hot thing

floods were only three weeks ago tbf xp

i heard you sacked your european sophisticates and hired english managers

ach this was poss already implicit. let's talk abt rtc's classical education

imago delenda est

so i'm feminine/neuter plural now am i

no wait neuter plural would be 'delenda sunt'

made a pig's ear of this counterzing

villas boas is signing with zenit

Boo. Was hoping he'd turn up at Schalke in the summer.

Good move for all involved. Now if Spalletti could come the other way...

"I can't apologise for it," he continued, "and I can't say it won't ever happen again. I don't even know why I was angry. It's probably something we worked on in training. I would say if I remembered but when it's not applied it winds me up. Every manager would be the same but I suppose I show it more than others. If we were all the same, then this world would be very boring. I've got to show my emotions. If I didn't, then I'd be acting and there's too many actors in this game. I just want to wear my heart on my sleeve, when I wear them.

fucking moron

that was a terrible game, tottenham playing in sherwood's image and arsenal going along with it, virtually nothing of any quality after 73 seconds

what a great character he thinks he is. he has actually overtaken mark hughes as the most hateful, delusional idiot in the league

I know lots of top managers use a degree of delusional paranoia to stay insulated from their shortcomings, but it's normally in the service of the team, sherwood is just a poisonous, traitorous individual ready to turn on the next player he can scapegoat

So well said Ogmor.

The conspiratorially minded might wonder whether the easy ride he's being given by the likes of Hytner is because he was their inside man for leaks in the AVB era.

He's being given an easy ride because You Can Talk About Tactics All Day Long But It's A Simple Game At Heart with a hefty chunk of Sam Allardici jingoistic bollocks in there as well.

As if Brendan Rodgers has put together the best Liverpool team in forever purely through just putting it in the box and going "just go out there and play".

an inordinate amount of football fans/pundits/players still believe that

Will Levy (as many people assume) get rid of Sherwood?

If so when and on what basis / rationale?

Will Sherwood remain at the club? If so, this will be *disastrous* - it makes a big difference to any new manager, whether TS is still present.

I suspect that getting rid of Sherwood in the summer has been the plan all along. He was only made "permanent" because he threatened to walk out if he wasn't, and none of Levy's managerial targets will be available until after the World Cup.

Eagerly anticipating his career at Blackburn, anyway.

Do you see a danger of TS staying around, though? He indicated last week that he'd like to be technical director.

i think we've established that what Sherwood says he wants is fairly meaningless. i agree it wd be poison to keep him at the club once replaced.

Agree with matt that sherwood was always in til summer with the further 12 months being no more than a kiss-off.

Didnt think he'd be so disastrous as to require removal before even that but our ability to either hold on to or eke decent fees for the better players in this squad is starting to be seriously compromised

But, again -- do you think that even if a new coach comes in, could TS be reinstalled in a backroom role?

This is probably the single biggest danger the club faces at the moment.

Sherwood will undermine whichever manager comes in, he really has to go. I keep picturing him as that greasy guy in the second LOTR film who whispers into that king's ear and makes him all prematurely decrepit.

an excellent comparison, my liege

Sherwood's 18 month contract always looked to me like "I'll take it if I get a severance package after messing up."

If levy had any long term faith in him it would have been more than 18 months.

yeah i don't think there's a single chance in a hundred he stays on tbh, im not sure it's even something i'd considered

some of Sherwood's press guff may be an acceptance that he's burning his bridges at the club - it's not impossible for a manager to be demoted into a token role if they've been diplomatic whilst in post, but why would any possible candidate for the Spurs job want TS hanging around given his existing public pronouncements?

that hardly explains his doing it tho, i mean im not sure there was danger of it either way. think he's damaged himself badly for other roles this past week or so.

still plenty of numpty chairmen who get teary eyed when an English manager gives it a bit of Henry V i reckon

levy!?!!

oh, as an alternative employment

oh yeah, definitely

who're wigan grooming atm, we'll swap

I entirely agree about TS as poison for any new set-up
I agree he's made himself look worse and undermined himself even for any other jobs
I just worry that he will be kept on in some capacity. The worst thing that could happen.

we don't disagree so much, so!

I think plenty of people would hire him, his public complaining is just setting the narrative framing his inevitable failure for his future job interviews.

I could see Norwich considering him for example

most worrying thing for me is how sherwood has long been described as very highly rated by levy and spurs as a whole.

Sherwood will undermine whichever manager comes in, he really has to go. I keep picturing him as that greasy guy in the second LOTR film who whispers into that king's ear and makes him all prematurely decrepit.

― anonanon, Monday, 17 March 2014 14:38 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

an excellent comparison, my liege

― Ismael Klata, Monday, 17 March 2014 14:42 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not saying just saying but in his sunday times interview sol campbell attributed the slurs about his sexuality to disenchanted spurs players, you will be invited to guess which fin de siecle spurs dressing room big dogs he might be referring to

interesting, Nakh

mizzell, yes, exactly -- worrying. We can't assume that Levy sees TS the way we see him. I mean, if he did, he wouldn't be in post at all.

Levy didn't have a great number of appealing alternative options though, before the World Cup at least.

Sherwood had a good reputation internally because the u21s did very well under his watch, though some have said that success owed more to Chris Ramsey

Is Ramsey the geezer that stands nearby on the touchline looking worried?

he's one of them, yeah

not using soldado instead of the utterly worthless harry kane when he wasnt going to play soldja boy vs arsenal is almost criminally stupid or craven or nepotistic or whatever

sherwood bears witness to the london fitba mafia pretty well, see rob shep shepherd and neil ashtons encomia, he clearly spends time in the right herts cokehead hostelries, much like joe kinnear who chatted up mile ashley second time round in a gastropub whose name escapes me, fairly safe to imagine that timmy has exchanged knowing glances over tinkling urinal cakes with paul kemmo kemsley and anthony kastrinakis

extramarital beeeeejes

Has he registered for the Pro Licence yet?