It's time to bring back David Seaman
IN any other field it would not be allowed.
In how many professions would you get away with making a mistake every single time – and I don’t mean once or twice, but every single time – that you were asked to do
something?
Yet Paul Robinson, who hasn’t managed to save a shot all season and must take some, if not all, of the responsibility for Top Four Tottenham’s bottom three position, is not only rewarded by keeping his place in the Spurs team (Surely Jol’s revenge on the White Hart Lane board?) – but he is also awarded the honour of being picked for the national team.
It’s like giving Nick Leeson a Christmas bonus for all the hard work he has done in the Far East markets.
What Steve McClaren, the man who at club level won the league cup and nothing else, is saying to us all, with his patronising Steve McClaren mouth and his silly Steve McClaren face, is that there is not one English person, anywhere, who is better in goal than Paul Robinson.
Now, I know for a fact – and you probably do too – that this is simply not the case.
I met at least three on my way to work this morning.
No wonder England haven’t lifted a trophy in 40 years with decision-making like this at the top.
Bring back David Seaman.
BEFORE the season started there was plenty of talk about Spurs being capable of finishing in the top four. Even in this paper Mr Osley became so obsessed with the concept he decided to base one of his amusing running gags on the subject. It’s still limping along. 
Tottenham, it seemed, just had to turn up to roll over Arsenal for a place in the Champions League.
Of course, all this talk could have led to complacency. Thankfully the Spurs board saw this potential for nonchalance and chose to act decisively to do something about it.
Through a series of well publicised meetings and press releases, they shook things up enough to make sure that no one could possibly feel too comfortable at White Hart Lane, whether in the stands, on the pitch or in the dugout. As self-satisfaction was banished from the ground, there was to be no resting on laurels, even if you had just guided the club to two fifth place finishes in a row.
And it seems to have worked. The board have managed to steer Spurs away from the potential hazards of over expectation, remove any inflated ambition and ensure that the aim for the season is now far more realistic, namely consistency.
An exciting eight-goal thriller at the Lane, a brave fightback on foreign soil, and a draw snatched from the jaws of victory at Anfield. Now that’s consistency. Consistency with the Spurs spirit. Here’s to the next 125 years!
