90sSpursBook
Erik Edman
So theres's quite a lot of anti-Sherwood feeling on this board and across the Spurs universe. The rights and wrongs of this are being discussed elsewhere but which Spurs managerial appointment left feeling the most underwhelmed i.e. which left you feeling the least excited about where the club/team were going.
I dont mean which manager was the worst, purely the appointment itself regardless of how it panned out for the manager.
Gross may be the obvious choice partly because nobody had heard of him but thinking back to Nov 1997 Arsenal had recently appointed an unheard of foreign manager who was starting to do rather well and at a time where we didnt know much about European coaches I think I was quite hopeful he would repeat the feat.
Equally Gerry Francis was billed as the next best thing when we got him in 1994 following his 'success' at QPR. We didn't really know anything about foreign coaches at the time so there wasnt a lot of choice so again I remember being quite optimistic about what he might bring.
The only names I've left off the poll are Hoddle and Ardiles who were both club legends so doubt many of us would have felt underwhelmed by their appointment and also Ramos who had a great track record and most fans and pundits alike thought we were getting the real thing even if it was at BMJ's expense.
For older GG ers I wonder if they can recall what the feeling was when Keith Burkinshaw was appointed. This is way before my time so I dont know where he'd been before us? Did anyone assume he would go on to be the success that he proved to be?
For me it was AVB - I was disappointed that Harry had left and just couldnt see how a bloke who had seemingly failed so miserably at Chelsea was going to be the answer. Being in the Summer (unlike most of our management changes) it seemed a great opportunity to seek a world class coach to take us on and with it being a tournament Summer there would have been an abundance of options. For the record I did warm to AVB.
I dont mean which manager was the worst, purely the appointment itself regardless of how it panned out for the manager.
Gross may be the obvious choice partly because nobody had heard of him but thinking back to Nov 1997 Arsenal had recently appointed an unheard of foreign manager who was starting to do rather well and at a time where we didnt know much about European coaches I think I was quite hopeful he would repeat the feat.
Equally Gerry Francis was billed as the next best thing when we got him in 1994 following his 'success' at QPR. We didn't really know anything about foreign coaches at the time so there wasnt a lot of choice so again I remember being quite optimistic about what he might bring.
The only names I've left off the poll are Hoddle and Ardiles who were both club legends so doubt many of us would have felt underwhelmed by their appointment and also Ramos who had a great track record and most fans and pundits alike thought we were getting the real thing even if it was at BMJ's expense.
For older GG ers I wonder if they can recall what the feeling was when Keith Burkinshaw was appointed. This is way before my time so I dont know where he'd been before us? Did anyone assume he would go on to be the success that he proved to be?
For me it was AVB - I was disappointed that Harry had left and just couldnt see how a bloke who had seemingly failed so miserably at Chelsea was going to be the answer. Being in the Summer (unlike most of our management changes) it seemed a great opportunity to seek a world class coach to take us on and with it being a tournament Summer there would have been an abundance of options. For the record I did warm to AVB.
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