One of my favorite things is when badly run clubs hire managers from well run clubs and are shocked when it changes nothing for either team

With no immediate succession plan imminent, this is a failure not just at the managerial level, but also the executive level. It's unfathomable, and damning.

Had to happen because Enic made it happen. No cause for celebration, nor praise for them: this is another of their failures.

That took far too long. What I won't do, though, is level personal abuse at Frank. He was not the right fit for us and likely should never have been appointed but he's clearly not a bad dude and will likely get a good job at a club that don't have expectations as lofty as ours. No hate from me

Spurs have sacked another manager, and I feel no joy. I guess Heitinga is the interim to keep us up, and then in the summer it’s going to be so hard to attract talent to this rolling clown car of a club

No wild celebration from me. Another season wasted, more money wasted with zero accountability for the people getting these decisions so horribly wrong so often.

I'm not gonna gloat over a sacking, nor am I gonna celebrate it. I think it's the right thing for the club and it's what I wanted to happen, but that doesn't mean we're in a good place. Still, onward.

Some good news for us Spurs fans

Yes Thomas we finished 17th last season. The only reason you were brought in was to fix that. It’s a frankly ridiculous defence to justify this mess we are in by pointing out that this is the position we were in when he took over.

Ultimately these decisions are not being made with football as the priority. Money, greed, influence is what the hierarchy cherish above all else. The elation, emotion, camaraderie, bonding, community spirit, togetherness and force for good that football clubs can bring - not so much. Really sad.

To go from Nuno to Conte to Ange and then to Frank is a ride through a ridiculously wide variety of playing styles and personalities, each bringing in their own players to suit their own tactics leaving half the squad at any one time not suited to the current playing style. Farcical decision making.

Yes the hierarchy at Spurs mostly to blame but not because of underinvestment on the pitch. £40m - £50m signings throughout the squad. Problem is who we have spent the money on and why. Crazy scattergun approach to hiring managers and identifying players with no long term plan, vision or direction.

It was this bad months ago with zero evidence it was going to get any better. The hierarchy at Tottenham are fundamentally incompetent.

I like Frank. I really do. But he’s just not the right fit. He’s going to go on and impress again at whatever club he ends up with.

This is a Newcastle team in the midst of their own mini crisis. Instead of putting them under pressure we’ve given them the freedom of White Hart Lane. Abject surrender. No feasible defense for this.

I’ll say it over and over again - it’s not the results, it’s the utterly abysmal performances and utterly pathetic attacking intent. Pathetic. Embarrassing.

I don't see who replaces Starmer. And that's one big reason why I suspect he'll survive for the moment. No obvious candidate.

How you get from massive victory to complete mess in 18 months is a story that should be studied for years

Great thing about referees that people seldom mention is they get most decisions in a game right. Worst thing is the absolute nonsense decisions they make because of VAR intervention. How the actual fuck are we now prioritizing red cards over goals. Get a grip chaps.

Played ok, and with some spirit, in the circumstances. But can’t keep falling back on circumstances. This isn‘t unavoidable, and definitely not ‘Spursy’. It’s a consequence of poor decisions, and a strategy that neglects the football.

Imagine a world where the reigning Europa League holders and Champions League knock out qualifiers are having to give a monkey's who wins out of West Ham and Burnley. Bravo ENIC, bravo.

Last May I was ecstatically, stupidly happy. I had a permanent inane grin. My prolonging my happiness plan was to spend the summer wearing Spurs t-shirts or retro shirts. Within days the shirts were back in the cupboard & the sun had gone in. But did I imagine how bad it was going to be, who did?

I love watching the Olympics and absorbing the arbitrary standards. You end up watching a sport you are only dimly aware exists, frowning and saying, “Oo, that guy from Norway had his knees greater than 90 degrees, now he’s bronze at best.”

Disgraceful = getting yourself sent off and banned for 4 games when you’re in the midst of an injury crisis and you are the club captain #thfc

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Powerful white men once equated Black people with monkeys to justify their abduction, deportation, enslavement, lynching and segregation. The heinous image that Trump shared is explicit racism. There is no nowhere for his supporters to hide. Supporting him is incompatible with basic human decency.

Assumed Iceland had a much greater winter game’s pedigree 🤷🏻‍♂️

Totally failed by club since last summer. I became ambivalent post Poch, managers that didn't care. Ange brought me back in with his charisma and defending players and club despite media goading us constantly. Then he gave us a trophy as he said he would. I was overjoyed, such euphoria. And now....

Cheering when someone drops a glass in a pub.

That‘s the spirit.

> @governor.ny.gov

A fair point well made by David Aaronovitch.

Epstein should give pause to all the gullible conspiracy theorists conned into believing the deflecting muck thrown their way, usually based on racism. Because there's an actual conspiracy, right in front of you: the billionaire class, corrupting governments, rigging economies, and raping kids.

If you were “friends” with Epstein then you are guilty. It’s really that simple.

Top flight football’s current obsession with tactics quickly diluting enjoyment of the beautiful game. In the main tactics = waiting for the other team to make a mistake whilst making sure your own team doesn’t make that mistake. The antithesis of skill and excitement.

Sarah Ferguson’s appalling avarice in her dealings with Epstein are another example of the utter uselessness of people like her from her class. All the privilege, a talent for nothing, yet a grasping ambition serving the very worst interests.

45 minutes that sum up my dwindling love for the modern day game at the top level. A half consisting of nothing but no risk football. Backwards/sideways, sideways/backwards. Utter dross.

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Someone high up at the club needs to come out and actually communicate clearly what the targets are for Frank and Tottenham this season. What are the club hierarchy’s expectations? Only then can we judge the transfer window. But as per usual at this club nobody has a scooby what the aims are #thfc

Pathetic by Cash. Stupid by Schade. Annoys me that Cash won’t get a suspension - clear feigning injury.

The City game today exact replica of Villa cup defeat. A different team mentality turned up second half. That’s not good management. It’s the opposite.

Solanki’s goal is a fluke pure and simple. Don’t start talking about goals of the century and great finishing, he throws a boot at the ball the only way he can. One in a million goes in.

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

The reviews for “Melania” are going to be far more entertaining than the movie. What a fabulous headline:

This changes EVERYTHING. See you all in Skeggy.

I realise that life is spent trying to prove yourself right and finding evidence to support your own theories but seriously have a look at the final positions of our 8 opponents in the CL league stage and then convince me finishing 4th was a fantastic achievement #thfc

If Matthew Goodwin is the very best Reform can muster for an eminently winnable by-election, the unfeasibly warm welcomes for the worst of Johnson & Truss's flotsam & jetsam suddenly make much more sense.

“Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out.”

If you think Xavi, Tel, Kolo Muani, and Odobert are relegation-level players you've completely lost the plot.

Remember when the manager of THFC played five defenders against relegation-bound Burnley?