I do feel a little bit sorry for him. It's hard enough trying to replace your best player, chuck 7 new signings into a team and expect it to fit straight away. It's even harder when some/most/all of those signings aren't even yours. I bet Baldini will still be sitting pretty even though he was actually the one buying them.
Unfortunately for him though the press were always going to be his worst enemy. He replaced 'Arry and worse, he wasn't going to lie down and just accept what they say. And at the same time he doesn't really have the personality of Mourinho to be able to bullshit his way through press conferences. And he has a ginger beard. When he then started to point fingers at the Spurs crowd [who frankly, are morons. You're a cup team; you always have been you probably always will be] he was doomed. It was pretty telling when he was having a go at Ashton that no one backed him up. But it's phenomenally short-sighted. Spend a truck load in the summer, and then spend a truck load getting rid of him.
They're not even doing that badly though. Two horrible results, but still within touching distance of top 4, especially if these new signings do start to gel, still in the CoC and Europa and whatsmore I think he has the best win % of any post-WW2 Spurs manager.
On the other hand, some of his tactics were suicidal. It's a bit of a cliché now, but the high line is ludicrous. Doing it with Dawson is just being stubborn. And he was hardly proactive in our game either.
I guess you can make excuses for Villas-Boas in both his roles here; he was on a hiding to nothing at Chelsea as we all know, but in the end he has been sacked twice and pretty quickly. That might be that for him here for a while.
Spurs need to be careful what they wish for though. Some of them moaning about the boring, defensive football [why does every club now have a "... Way"?] and then advocating Capello
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