Humpty-Ange sat on the wall, Humpty-Ange had a great fall…

 

Humpty-Ange sat on the wall, Humpty-Ange had a great fall…

Humpty-Ange sat on a wall

Humpty-Ange had a great fall

All the Levy’s yes-men and all the supporters

Couldn't put Humpty-Ange together again

Humpty-Ange sat on the ground

Humpty-Ange looked all around

Gone were the cheers, gone were the fans

All he could see were failures and mishandlings

Poor old Humpty-Ange

Humpty-Ange counted to ten

Humpty-Ange built up again… but then it had all gone, and Levy sacked him and moved on to another failure. And we start all over again!

I’ve been saying that we shouldn’t blame Humpty-Ange and that we should look higher up to point the finger at, but after the Fulham game, I finally lost patience with him and his selections. Yes, the finger can and should be pointed higher up… but that doesn’t change Ange being out of his depth.

Protests at the Fulham game

When Levy was looking for a new manager after his 15^th sacking, or whatever the number was, I thought Ange wasn’t the right fit for Tottenham at the time. He wasn’t high up on Levy’s list either. Nevertheless, after our excellent start to his first season, I started to mellow towards him. But now, after the poor selection for the Fulham game and everybody around me telling me that I was wrong, I finally succumbed.

We’ve had so many false dawns this season.

After the City home defeat, we travelled to Alkmaar to face AZ, only to be humiliated. It was our goal that gave them victory. After that, we faced Bournemouth, who outplayed us until we managed to fight back and equalise.

The AZ Alkmaar Europa game seemed a hurdle to climb as all around us crumbled… but we managed to come back from the dead and beat them 3-2 on aggregate… quickly back in the Premier League, we took on Fulham and poor Ange selection saw us defeated… and his excuse… no, it wasn’t the grass this time, but… something about trying out other players or giving them a chance before the break. He should have picked his strongest side… probably the side that beat AZ instead of mucking around with positions and who should be in the side or not.

With the international break coming up, the team certainly didn’t need resting…

I feel… the fans feel that Ange is out of his depth. I go to all the away and home games, and I’ve noticed that over the last season, the support for him is starting to dim. There are shouts of Levy out and shouts of Ange out. Fans are turning against fans… because of Ange and his no plan B, his erratic selections etc.

He has managed in Asia and Scotland… where the leagues are nowhere as intense or have such wide-ranging team strengths, etc. as they do in England.

Of course, nothing will be decided until after our Europa conquest has ended. In the meantime, I see us losing to Chelsea… probably winning against Southampton. Then the big one against Frankfurt, followed by Wolves away and then the Europa decider to know if we shall go to the semi-finals. Will Humpty-Ange get a lifeline, or will Levy throw him to the lions if we are knocked out of our last Cup competition of the season?

We’ve had 24 years of Levy rule, 16 managers, and one trophy. For a club our size, this is a very poor return. Granted, he has lavished a new stadium upon us with circus clown acts entertaining the masses… but for football, he has a stingy approach as if the football side is his least important showcase, an irrelevance to his other money-making acts.

“We want Levy out! We want Levy out!” chant the fans while Levy sits as a Roman Emperor surveying all about him before deciding whether to put his thumb up or down to determine a killing or not and passing the buck away from him.

Julius Caesar's famous quote: ``I came, I saw, I fucked up where football is concerned (paraphrasing).'' It could have been written for Daniel Levy…

If Levy should sack Ange, we will go through the cycle all over again. There is talk of Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola as a possible replacement… because he is cheap and can do wonders with so little… right up Daniel’s Street.

To paraphrase the death scene of Julius Caesar in Carry on Cleo...

Tottenham Supporters: I'm sorry Caesar Levy but for the good of Rome, you must go!

Julius Caesar-Levy: But my kingdom… I don’t want to go… I may not be a very good football emperor/ director, but I'd be a worse one gone! [laughter!]

Treachery! Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me.

Tottenham Hotspur does sound a bit like a Carry-on film gone wrong… hilarious to the outsider but humiliating to the loyal and real supporters of our great club.

Up the Spurs!

Glenn