There’s an almost unwritten law that as soon as any player leaves Spurs, normally because they’re just shit and rubbish don’t do nuffink for years other than cause anger and frustration among fans, once at their new clubs they immediately turn into Pele. We create latent superstars, just waiting to put on a different shirt before exploding into almost unlimited potential.

And now we’ve done it with a manager too. Though Tim Sherwood wasn’t shit whilst at Spurs as ‘caretaker’ after Andre Villas Boas was shown the door. In fact he performed rather well. Though not well enough that Daniel Levy was prepared to take him on permanently. So he was offloaded and eventually found his way to Aston Villa. Who were in a very bad place, staring at relegation and entering a black hole from which there is no return. Enter Tim, they start to win, start to believe, and now they’re in the FA Cup Final after seeing off Liverpool yesterday.

I don’t rue the loss of Sherwood at Spurs. I could never stand him. Such is my judgment of character and football that the only manager in the last decade and a half that I haven’t wanted to keep would probably have been the best. Such is life. And it would be nice if Villa went on to win the cup. Give their sad, unemployed, almost-worthless fans some good cheer in otherwise pretty useless lives. Restore once big Villa to former glory.

No such restorations happening any time soon at Newcastle, one must fear. They’re in total disarray, from the team down to the fans, the owner, everyone involved.

The fans boycotted the match yesterday, instead choosing to protest outside the ground against Mike Ashley, their fat cockney billionaire owner. And against Wonga, the sponsors. So, both hands that feed them, pretty much.

The boycotting fans actually made a wise choice staying outside and missing the agony their team was enduring inside the ground. Newcastle were so bad they made Spurs look positively classy by comparison. Not an easy feat.

I don’t want a new manager, we’ve had enough of them. I want continuity and now we have Paul Mitchell (another theft from Southampton, who just get stronger every time important figures leave their club) in charge of recruitment and hopefully Baldini out, we can ‘re-build’. Again.

Although Newcastle allowed us masses of possession, we didn’t appear to know precisely what to do with it. As if our team sat-nav couldn’t pinpoint exactly which direction was ‘goalwards’. We dithered, we slowed things down, we looked lost most of the time. But Newcastle were so bad they gifted us 2 goals and Harry Kane scored a wonderful third. The only bright light we have in a sea of darkness.

But heh, no time for gloom, 3 points in the bag. We can still get forth place if…

Yeah, right.

Happy Monday

A xxxx