what is the worst thing about having harry redknapp as your manager? knowing that he will waste your transfer budget on players that aren't good enough? lack of tactical nous? how about the fact he's presided over a thoroughly mediocre career record? the employment of cronies?
nope, i would say the worst thing about having harry redknapp as your manager is that you know all he cares about is harry redknapp and will do anything to escape blame and make excuses. and guess what? after yesterday's near defeat to burnley, despite being 4-1 up from the first leg, harry has yet again blamed the players!
said harry:
"We need stronger players in here because we're not mentally or physically strong enough... It's a mish-mash of players with people playing where they want to play."
wait a minute! i thought this was a talented group of players who only needed you to put your arm round them? isn't that what you said when you took over harry?
the fact is, that this group of players remains startling similar to the team that deservedly beat chelsea in last year's carling cup final. the starting line-up for that game was
Robinson, Hutton, Woodgate, King, Chimbonda, Lennon, Jenas, Zokora, Malbranque, Berbatov, Keane
and although spurs obviously now lack berbatov and keane up front, but the midfield has only improved since that point, with the additions of david bentley and luka modric, whilst vedran corluka has played better at right back since joining than alan hutton ever has, and we actually have the ability of play a proper left-back now. more to the point, even though i don't like either player, you cannot escape the fact that both jenas and zokora played well enough to negate a chelsea central midfield featuring john obi mikel, frank lampard and michael essien. ultimately ramos's failure was not being able to produce such performances with any regularity, but under redknapp the players are incapable of playing well, ever, it would seem. furthermore, when spurs finished 5th in 2006/2007, the team was essentially the same as the one that started the carling cup final, with jenas and zokora in central midfield and tom huddlestone as their back-up. so this is the messed up squad harry? these are the useless players that you can't do anything with?
of course, it is just another example of harry trying to avoid blame, which is, in fairness, the one thing he does well. the squad is never big enough or good enough, which means even the least impressive achievements - look! we stayed up! - can be heralded by him as some sort of miracle. what a truly awful man.
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