I don't think consistently sacking managers when you have billionaire clubs and owners at the top end of the Premier League is the way to go. Owners at that level need to accept that there is only the League, League Cup, F.A Cup, Champions League and Uefa Europa League to win. Here in lies the problem. You have Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton and only five trophies. Somebody is going to miss out. The sooner these owners accept this the better. I'm sick of hearing about the needs of supporters who follow these clubs being hard done by just because they finished 6th and without a trophy.
Like kids aren't they chucking toy out of the pram. Then when they do player teams like Luton or Barnsley and lower down they patronise the hell out of us and say that "you did your best" cr@p like that. Monday morning rant over though hey
This is a snap shot of Tottenham's recent history and it's classed as failure: 1998–99 38 11 14 13 47 50 47 11th SF W Steffen Iversen 13 1999–2000 38 15 8 15 57 49 53 10th R3 R4 UEFA Cup R2 Steffen Iversen 17 2000–01 38 13 10 15 47 54 49 12th SF R3 Sergei Rebrov 12 2001–02 38 14 8 16 49 53 50 9th QF R/U Gustavo Poyet 14 2002–03 38 14 8 16 51 62 50 10th R3 R3 Sheringham/Keane 13 2003–04 38 13 6 19 47 57 45 14th R4 QF Robbie Keane 16 2004–05 38 14 10 14 47 41 52 9th QF QF Jermain Defoe 22 2005–06 38 18 11 9 53 38 65 5th R3 R2 Robbie Keane 16 2006–07 38 17 9 12 57 54 60 5th QF SF UEFA Cup QF Dimitar Berbatov 23 2007–08 38 11 13 14 66 61 46 11th R4 W UEFA Cup R16 Berbatov/Keane 23 2008–09 38 14 9 15 45 45 51 8th R4 R/U UEFA Cup R32 Darren Bent 17 2009–10 38 21 7 10 67 41 70 4th SF QF Jermain Defoe 24 2010–11 38 16 14 8 55 46 62 5th R4 R3 Champions League QF Rafael van der Vaart 15 2011–12 38 20 9 9 66 41 69 4th SF R3 Europa League GS Emmanuel Adebayor 18 2012–13 38 21 9 8 66 46 72 5th R4 R4 Europa League QF Gareth Bale 26 2013–14 38 21 6 11 55 51 69 6th R3 QF Europa League R16 Emmanuel Adebayor 14 2014–15 38 19 7 12 58 53 64 5th R4 R/U Europa League R32 Harry Kane 31 2015–16 38 19 13 6 69 35 70 3rd R5 R3 Europa League R16 Harry Kane 28 2016–17 38 26 8 4 86 26 86 2nd SF R4 Champions League GS Harry Kane 35 Europa League R32 2017–18 38 23 8 7 74 36 77 3rd SF R4 Champions League R16 Harry Kane 41 2018–19 38 23 2 13 67 39 71 4th R4 SF Champions League R/U Harry Kane 24 2019–20 38 16 11 11 61 47 59 6th R5 R3 Champions League R16 Harry Kane 24
First Cardiff sack their manager now Chelsea, I think clubs are starting to panic at the prospect of facing us.
T b f those clubs are the only clubs chasing the first three of the mentioned trophies but there’s a lot more chasing the latter two . Trouble is the domestic trophies apart from league title are immaterial imo to these top clubs , maybe the FA cup at a pinch but if these clubs don’t win a champions league place they regard the season a failure which is bonkers imo .
I agree with the level of competition times have changed and looking back at a career and saying "well we finished in the top four and I won the golden boot a few times" has to be seen as an achievement because there is a likelihood that if everyone is on form you might not win a trophy. It isn't like 25 years ago when Man Utd swept the boards because everyone else was garbage.
Looking back at my original post it seems I was a bit premature. Nothing new there. There's probably a good career (and more family friendly) waiting for him in the media. I think he'd be good at punditry although he doesn't tick any diversity boxes so he's unlikely to work for the BBC.
OK I'll bite. The BBC won't employ any ex top footballer and manager white males to comment on football!?
Let's hope that Chelsea don't get the "new manager bounce/honeymoon" when they play us, that would just be our luck. PS I might post this on the Chelsea fans blog site!