Tottenham Hotspur: Who’s in charge?

Right here at 90min towers, we have realised that there’s all the time at the least one Premier League membership in relative disaster at any given time. In tribute, they’re christened because the ‘disaster membership of the week’.

However Tottenham Hotspur have crossed a line. You may’t preserve repeatedly wrestling again the championship belt (you realize, proverbially – everyone knows in regards to the trophy drought). There should be a value to pay.

As such, we have needed to mud off the outdated ‘who’s in charge?’ gimmick as an alternative. So, who actually is in charge for Spurs’ present misery?

Blame score: 0.1/10

Have a look at him. That massive smile. These massive sneakers. These massive wings.

He’s all the pieces fallacious with Tottenham Hotspur.

Blame score: 0.2/10

What’s worse than one massive big cockerel?

TWO massive big cockerels.

Blame score: 0.5/10

It is time to hop within the time machine. It is time for some domino-effect interrogating.

Halfway by the 2011/12 season, Tottenham had separated themselves from the top-four chasing pack and had been inside touching distance of Premier League title contenders Manchester Metropolis.

In a crunch sport on the Etihad Stadium, Spurs fought again from two objectives right down to degree it at 2-2. Mario Balotelli by some means escaped a crimson card for stamping on Scott Parker’s head, and would rating a stoppage time penalty to seal a win for Man Metropolis and ship Tottenham’s marketing campaign right into a tailspin.

That is why they’re nonetheless caught preventing for top-four finishes now.

Blame score: 0.75/10

With Tottenham within the midst of that title battle, they recruited Ryan Nelsen and Louis Saha on free transfers on deadline day.

How do you assume it went?

Blame score: 1/10

However the individual most at fault for such a collapse is Harry Redknapp. Or extra particularly, his canine Rosie.

Throughout a trial of two counts of dishonest the general public income, Redknapp defined to a courtroom that he arrange a Monaco checking account with Rosie’s title as a result of he cherished her a lot.

All of the whereas, Spurs’ season was happening the pan and he was flirting with the England job.

How might you do that, Rosie?

Blame score: 1.5/10

On the finish of Redknapp’s tenure, star midfielder Luka Modric was offered to Actual Madrid, with Spurs saying they’d entered a particular ‘partnership settlement’ with the Spanish giants.

Gareth Bale joined Actual Madrid a yr later.

Blame score: 2/10

Although Juande Ramos can also be Actual Madrid alumni, his connection to Tottenham is for a really totally different cause.

He was the final supervisor to win a trophy with Spurs. A lot better managers have adopted in his wake and failed. What a lottery.

Blame score: 2.1/10

Ramos gained the cup, however that group spiritually belonged to Martin Jol. He is simply as culpable.

Blame score: 2.5/10

As a result of you possibly can’t blame who Spurs are and what they’re about with out referencing Lasagna-gate 2006. I do not wish to go into it, although. Too painful.

Blame score: 3/10

One in all Tottenham’s most well-known followers simply occurs to be somebody who may also promote out Wembley – how are Spurs imagined to stay with that strain?

However talking of Wembley…

Blame score: 3.5/10

Tottenham had outgrown their outdated White Hart Lane stadium and needed to transfer on. Throughout building of a brand new floor, they needed to play at Wembley – a soulless stadium which was a nightmare to get to and from.

Spurs had been unbeaten of their closing season at White Hart Lane and misplaced their first sport at Wembley. Go determine.

Blame score: 4/10

Tottenham have not fairly felt the advantages of their new dwelling simply but. Why not? Why cannot a stadium play at wing-back?

Blame score: 4.1/10

Amongst proposals for Tottenham Hotspur Stadium had been a cheese room as a part of the membership’s luxurious choices.

It didn’t make the ultimate blueprints.

Blame score: 4.5/10

Beavertown have a microbrewery inside the brand new stadium. They now run a pub the place the outdated ticket workplace stood. I’m the proud proprietor of Beavertown x Spurs merchandise.

They really run the world.

Blame score: 5/10

The NFL have a 10-year settlement to play matches at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. There’s a specific-use American soccer pitch beneath the soccer one.

It is simply not soccer anymore.

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Blame score: 5.1/10

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium featured on an episode of Richard Hammond’s Huge.

Did the membership additional want their ego stroked? No.

Is the episode any good? Oh yeah, actually nice. Rivalries apart, positively go watch it.

Blame score: 5.2/10

Do podcasters even say something fascinating? Something noteworthy? Are they well worth the trouble? Everybody’s bought a bloody podcast as of late.

Anyway, please subscribe to Oh What A Evening, a part of the 90min podcast community. Hosted by me.

Blame score: 5.5/10

The referee who gave a handball in opposition to Moussa Sissoko 22 seconds into the one Champions League closing Tottenham would possibly ever play.

I hope you are pleased with your self. You ruined it for everybody.

Blame score: 5.6/10

Off the again of reaching that Champions League closing, Spurs made an audacious transfer to signal Paulo Dybala from Juventus.

He did not appear overly eager on the deal anyway, however a transfer fell aside on deadline day as Tottenham couldn’t legally work their approach round a difficulty with the ahead’s picture rights.

Nice.

Blame score: 6/10

Jose Mourinho was employed to get Tottenham over the road of their pursuit of a trophy.

He took the membership backwards as an alternative.

Blame score: 6.1/10

Tottenham had been handed a lift of their 2020/21 UEFA Europa League final 16 tie with Dinamo Zagreb when it was confirmed that supervisor Zoran Mamic had been sentenced to 4 years in jail.

Spurs managed to blow a two-goal lead and misplaced the second leg 3-0. Possibly if Mamic was let off the hook issues would have been totally different.

Blame score: 6.2/10

Off the again of that shock elimination, the social media supervisor of Joe Hart – who spent only one season at Spurs – praised the end result on the goalkeeper’s Instagram web page, assuming that Tottenham would not have ballsed it up.

Hart issued a public apology for the incident, however the injury was finished.

Blame score: 6.5/10

This actually was a time the place bashing Tottenham was the bottom of hanging fruits. Even Dulux – who had grow to be the membership’s official paint provider days earlier – posted tweets mocking their empty trophy cupboard.

Blame score: 6.6/10

“Lads, it is Tottenham.”

This utterance from Fergie arrange a era of Spurs jokes.

Blame score: 6.7/10

Ah, the person behind the trendy individual’s Spurs proverb.

“It’s within the historical past of the Tottenham.”

That is one other era sorted.

Blame score: 7/10

The most effective fried hen in north London, why should you all the time tempt us again to N17?

Sources (Matt Le Tissier and David Cotterill) counsel the key ingredient is Chirpy.

Blame score: 7.5/10

Okay, I am solely being half-satirical with this record. 75% at a push. 100% in the event you assume I am a moron.

However there are genuinely Tottenham followers who assume that Beyonce taking part in concert events on the stadium this summer time is an terrible factor which by some means ties to the membership’s ambitions.

Blame score: 8/10

Is it a superb factor when your managing director of soccer could possibly be banned from soccer for two-and-a-half years for monetary irregularities?

Most likely not.

Blame score: 8.6/10

Antonio Conte was meant to be totally different. He was employed to get Tottenham over the road of their pursuit of a trophy. He took the membership backwards inst- hey, did not I say this already?

Blame score: 8.7/10

The unlikeliest of heroes, all issues thought-about. 271 objectives for Tottenham Hotspur, and by dumb modern-day logic, none of them imply something.

What a tragic little life, Harry.

Blame score: 8.8/10

Effectively, Techniques Tim, you all the time wished to take credit score for Kane changing into among the best gamers on the earth.

Time to have your cake and eat it.

Blame score: 9/10

Whooooo remembers ‘4th – Arsenal’ jokes?

No however significantly the Gunners have made the leap Spurs had been imagined to and it is inflicting distress down the opposite finish of the Seven Sisters Highway and I hate it.

Blame score: 9.1/10

Lord Sugar was the proprietor of Tottenham throughout one of many worst stretches of their whole historical past. These days, he simply tweets discriminatory issues and hosts The Apprentice.

Fairly a brush for the membership to be tarred with.

Blame score: 9.5/10

Objectively and subjectively, Tottenham have made enormous strides beneath Daniel Levy’s chairmanship.

They’ve additionally stagnated in recent times due to some actually poor selections and refusal to study from errors.

Levy giveth, Levy taketh away.

Blame score: 10/10

Right here he’s. The person who raised the bar, who made fashionable Tottenham Hotspur the membership they’re immediately.

It is solely proper that he needs to be compelled to return and type out this mess. Who’s with me?