Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [18th - 21st January 2014]

Chong Warrior said:
Have to hand it to Tim, he's getting a reaction from the players and the stats are starting to mount for him.

From the very worst conversion rate in the Prem to #1 in just a few weeks
Breaks Spurs record for best ever start as a manager with 16 points from 18


All while turning Spurs from the dullest, most predictable team in world football to one worth watching again. Still to prove if he's the real deal or AVB was so bad, ANYONE would have looked good taking over from him.
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The bigger point to be made is, why did anyone like AVB, why did he get another job based off doing precisely what he went on to do at Spurs previously at Chelsea.

There was not a single sign of him being even a competent let alone good manager from his time at Chelsea, he made every single thing at the club worse, turned the players against him, was tactically inept and played crap football.

How did he even get a job in management, how did CHelsea decide to spend big on him and even more so how on earth did Spurs take a punt on him? It all seems to stem from, he worked under Mourinho, he's Portuguese......... he must be the next Mourinho? Someone ends up considered a potentially great manager because he has has some similarities with another top manager.... except nothing to do with his actual managing ability, but proximity to him and where he was born.......... madness.


EDIT:- Sherwood has done well so far, a new manager bump maybe, or a "thank **** it's not AVB" bump and the tea lady could have done just as well. Winning 5 out of 6 is very good however, I would just point out roughly speaking that it's been a fairly easy run, you can't help that but AVB was picking up wins against weaker teams also then fluffing up in between against better opposition. The football has very clearly changed for the better(football is entertainment, and they've gone as you say from dull as hell to exciting games to watch). The next 3-4 games I think has Everton, Newcastle and is it City, that might be the real test. Though losing them wouldn't be bad, Spurs are effectively a new team playing a different way, if they win, huge bonus, if they don't, it will take time to play good attacking football against top teams, and good attacking football opens you up to the odd thrashing as Utd/Arsenal have had happen to them over the years. If this new "open" Spurs lose 5-0 that isn't great but expected now and then, when you play an ultra defensive formation, boring football and can't score, losing 5-0 is comparatively much much worse.
 
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