| And we come to the end
of another year and what have we done ? Well, for the first time in many
years a trophy adorns the cabinet in the club offices. We have a stable
financial situation (which is important despite the signings we all
want), a manager who has the right idea about getting points and wins
(even though he might not play as exciting as we all want, hell we have
seen some action at the Lane this season) and a squad that is shaping
up. With a little more taken out of the Chairman’s transfer fund,
things could almost be there. Not for a sustained period of navy blue
and white domination, but enough to see Tottenham around the top of the
league and in Europe on a regular basis. We all know about the striking
position, but the good results achieved by the current squad undermine
the attempts to get money to sign a new forward. However, it is exactly
the games like Bradford and Leicester which cry out for a poacher who
would have put them beyond our opponents reach long before the end.
The last few weeks have been
strange for one reason and another. The England v Scotland matches meant
lack of games and the lack of fixtures on Saturday’s has been very
disturbing. Our next Saturday home game is set for January 22 against
Sheffield Wednesday, unless an FA Cup 4th round home draw is obtained.
And who would have paired us with Newcastle for our foe in the
competition they cheated us out of last season ?? Kismet ?? Or just an
opportunity to wreak revenge ??
The exit from the Worthington Cup
was very disappointing in the nature of the defeat. Although you rarely
see as many Spurs players having a bad day at the same time, it is a
salutary reminder that there must be a further investment in the club
before consistent success can be achieved. And it’s not a short term
thing - winning the Worthington last season has shown that it covered up
an awful lot of cracks in the side. It is achieving what is possible
with the players available now, then planning for the future. The Lund
affair is symptomatic of the general state of the club. When we are
trying to find a striker, who fits the exact e-fit put out by our
management team, someone who might do a job for us until that star
striker comes along is thrust under our nose by happy circumstance, the
club is still dithering and may well lose out to some other side ready
to take a punt on him. Writing this before the Newcastle United FA Cup
tie, we could realistically be left with nothing to play for and we
wouldn’t even have reached Christmas.
Still, a new Millennium and new
hope springs forth. Ah, the lot of a Tottenham Hotspur supporter is not
a happy one most of the time, but boy, when it comes good, do we enjoy
it ... like 7th November. Have a great Millennium from all at MEHSTG.
MY EYES HAVE SEEN
THE GLORY OF THE CUPS AT WHITE HART LANE
MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE CUPS AT WHITE HART LANE
MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE CUPS AT WHITE HART LANE
AND THE SPURS GO MARCHING ON.
BRUCE CASTLE |
