23 thoughts on “It’s the distaff that does the soccer around here”
BraveFart
Are the screams because she is an Arsenal supporter who believes that Spurs will now dominate Nth London football or a Spurs supporter who believes that this will be bad for Spurs or a Porto supporter who had hoped he would manage them?
Bloke in Germany in Hong Kong
Tim talking about football? Are you feeling well?
Went to my first ever international match last night. The locals really don’t like March of the volunteers.
Ducky McDuckface
This is going to be tediously predictable and yet utterly hilarious.
dearieme
Poch had done a fine job for several years. Then he became “a diva” according to my Inside Source. No doubt Poch takes a different view.
Stuff happens. Onwards and upwards! Or downwards, as the case may be.
My suspicion is that Mou is barking mad but I have no inside source on that.
Ducky McDuckface
Ooh, is dearieme an ITK?
Rob
Pay him off now with £5m and save all the histrionics, hassle and bad results.
bilbaoboy
What have Spurs done to deserve THAT!
Napsjam
It had been really nice for a little while not to have his sour puss mumbling excuses on TV all the time. I agree with Rob – and Rod Stewart’s joke comes to mind: “Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and buy her a house.”
dearieme
I had to google an “ITK”. No: with that one exception I am not In The Know about fitba’, in England or elsewhere. Hell, the only English football ground I have ever been to is Brunton Park. And I have only my father’s word for that because I have no memory of it. I last played the game in the 70s, mainly by turning out for my rugby club in a summer football league, and also by playing quite a bit of indoor five-a-sides. (The experience largely supported the usual boring rugby player stereotypes about soccer players.)
I did, though, long retain the ability to curve in a good shot from the outside of my right foot to the astonishment of various wee laddies who had derisively invited me to take part in their kickabouts.
Come to think of it I’ve not been to a rugby ground since watching an Australian Bledisloe Cup win at Ballymore in the ’90s. My favourite was Murrayfield – it had the best surface I ever played on.
Bernie G.
Mourinho has been hired for the sole purpose of rescuing Spurs’ season and making sure they finish in the top four. If Tottenham fail to qualify for the Champions League they will lose several players and will have to go back to the drawing board – begin all over again.
bloke in spain
Having spent more than a dozen years living at the geographical mid point between the Arsenal & Tottenham football grounds my disinterest in the subject is visceral.
Jim
This is going to be fun. The manager who has usually spent money like water being employed by the man who is tight than the proverbial. The Premier league needs a gobby manager again, there’s far too many polite self effacing ones at the moment.
Kevin R. Lohse
Having suffered through the Chosen One’s Reign of Terror at OT, Spurs are welcome to him. Can’t see the fan base enduring him for long though.
Dennis, Soccer Hooligan
So what is Tottenham going to get? Three years of scowling monomaniacal egomania, with the usual Mourinho arc… First year ascending, second year peaking, third year collapsing combined with the inevitable firing.
At this point, Jose Mourinho is who you hire when you don’t know who to hire.
PF
Hooligan
On the basis that Spurs never win anything, maybe peaking in year 2 might change that – perhaps the Aruba cup? (or whatever it’s called) – hence he could be an absolute bargain!
KRL +1
BniC
Well it is all about entertainment and he’s certainly an entertaining character
Bloke in North Dorset
I stopped taking an active interest in soccer 20 odd years ago, but its hard to avoid passive intake.
I’ve absorbed enough to know that unless Spurs are willing to throw mega ££££ at this guy then it will end in tears for Spurs fans and hilarity for everyone else. Even if they do throw those mega ££££ it will most likely end the same way.
moqifen
Mourinho appears to have fallen out with even more people than The Spudtollah.
Adam
when i told my wife (lifelong Spurs supporter – growing up in censored SA in the 70s the only outside tv they got was the FA cup, which Spurs seemed to feature in regularly. whether that is the case or just her memory, i dont know) this morning that Mou had been appointed, she was seriously dischuffed. Miserable git, advocating negative football according to SWMBO…..
Dennis, Soccer Hooligan
PF –
For the Spurs, peaking most probably means a sixth place finish secured by a last match of the season victory over Aston Villa.
Henry Crun
Spurs would be better off handing Mourinho a check for 8m quid and fucking him off now to save the inevitable histrionics by the end of next season.
BC
@Adam As a long suffering Spurs supporter from your wife’s land, I can’t fault her argument. But, as it’s a tribal thing, I’ll support the miserable git while he’s there.
Are the screams because she is an Arsenal supporter who believes that Spurs will now dominate Nth London football or a Spurs supporter who believes that this will be bad for Spurs or a Porto supporter who had hoped he would manage them?
Tim talking about football? Are you feeling well?
Went to my first ever international match last night. The locals really don’t like March of the volunteers.
This is going to be tediously predictable and yet utterly hilarious.
Poch had done a fine job for several years. Then he became “a diva” according to my Inside Source. No doubt Poch takes a different view.
Stuff happens. Onwards and upwards! Or downwards, as the case may be.
My suspicion is that Mou is barking mad but I have no inside source on that.
Ooh, is dearieme an ITK?
Pay him off now with £5m and save all the histrionics, hassle and bad results.
What have Spurs done to deserve THAT!
It had been really nice for a little while not to have his sour puss mumbling excuses on TV all the time. I agree with Rob – and Rod Stewart’s joke comes to mind: “Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and buy her a house.”
I had to google an “ITK”. No: with that one exception I am not In The Know about fitba’, in England or elsewhere. Hell, the only English football ground I have ever been to is Brunton Park. And I have only my father’s word for that because I have no memory of it. I last played the game in the 70s, mainly by turning out for my rugby club in a summer football league, and also by playing quite a bit of indoor five-a-sides. (The experience largely supported the usual boring rugby player stereotypes about soccer players.)
I did, though, long retain the ability to curve in a good shot from the outside of my right foot to the astonishment of various wee laddies who had derisively invited me to take part in their kickabouts.
Come to think of it I’ve not been to a rugby ground since watching an Australian Bledisloe Cup win at Ballymore in the ’90s. My favourite was Murrayfield – it had the best surface I ever played on.
Mourinho has been hired for the sole purpose of rescuing Spurs’ season and making sure they finish in the top four. If Tottenham fail to qualify for the Champions League they will lose several players and will have to go back to the drawing board – begin all over again.
Having spent more than a dozen years living at the geographical mid point between the Arsenal & Tottenham football grounds my disinterest in the subject is visceral.
This is going to be fun. The manager who has usually spent money like water being employed by the man who is tight than the proverbial. The Premier league needs a gobby manager again, there’s far too many polite self effacing ones at the moment.
Having suffered through the Chosen One’s Reign of Terror at OT, Spurs are welcome to him. Can’t see the fan base enduring him for long though.
So what is Tottenham going to get? Three years of scowling monomaniacal egomania, with the usual Mourinho arc… First year ascending, second year peaking, third year collapsing combined with the inevitable firing.
At this point, Jose Mourinho is who you hire when you don’t know who to hire.
Hooligan
On the basis that Spurs never win anything, maybe peaking in year 2 might change that – perhaps the Aruba cup? (or whatever it’s called) – hence he could be an absolute bargain!
KRL +1
Well it is all about entertainment and he’s certainly an entertaining character
I stopped taking an active interest in soccer 20 odd years ago, but its hard to avoid passive intake.
I’ve absorbed enough to know that unless Spurs are willing to throw mega ££££ at this guy then it will end in tears for Spurs fans and hilarity for everyone else. Even if they do throw those mega ££££ it will most likely end the same way.
Mourinho appears to have fallen out with even more people than The Spudtollah.
when i told my wife (lifelong Spurs supporter – growing up in censored SA in the 70s the only outside tv they got was the FA cup, which Spurs seemed to feature in regularly. whether that is the case or just her memory, i dont know) this morning that Mou had been appointed, she was seriously dischuffed. Miserable git, advocating negative football according to SWMBO…..
PF –
For the Spurs, peaking most probably means a sixth place finish secured by a last match of the season victory over Aston Villa.
Spurs would be better off handing Mourinho a check for 8m quid and fucking him off now to save the inevitable histrionics by the end of next season.
@Adam As a long suffering Spurs supporter from your wife’s land, I can’t fault her argument. But, as it’s a tribal thing, I’ll support the miserable git while he’s there.
BC
despite her protests, she will too….:)