Spurs MUST Issue Statement Over Hughes Joke

I damn near choked on my cornflakes this morning when I read that Spurs have allegedly "sounded out" Mark Hughes regarding becoming their manager before the end of the international break next week. They're not even beating around the bush with this one - "Spurs officials contacted Sparky’s advisors yesterday to offer him the job hours before Manchester City’s UEFA Cup tie with Omonia Nicosia. " - are they frigging serious?

I am just astounded that a national newspaper can get away with printing something like this. They are in affect directly accusing Tottenham Hotspur FC of tapping up another Premiership manager. What with tapping up being quite a hot issue recently, and the potential punishment for being caught red handed I will find it incredible if the club intends to just let this one go.

As if the notion that Mark Hughes would leave the richest club in the world for bottom of the table crisis club Tottenham wasn't laughable enough the article goes on to claim that Levy "almost offered him the job" last year. How exactly do you "almost" offer someone a job? Are we to believe that the relentless pursuit of Ramos over the course of 3 months eventually resulted in Hughes "almost" being offered the job?

But really this is no laughing matter because if, as I HAVE to believe, this is utter bollocks, then a certain amount of damage has already been done. The press as a whole will now move away from discussing the form of the team and start touting other candidates for the job, quoting bookmakers prices etc etc as they love to do, and that is a slippery slope that intensifies the pressure on the current incumbent and usually leads to only one outcome.

And make no mistake, sacking Ramos after the chaotic goings on of the summer when we are still in all cup competitions and only 2 points worse off than we were this time last season, and the season before, would make us a laughing stock and may well be the final straw for me. Has sacking the manager been a successful policy for Tottenham over the last 10 years? Of course not so how is sacking another one - a man who was widely regarded as one of the best in Europe a year ago - going to help now?

The problem is that some quaters have already joined the newly formed Ramos Out Brigade, and whilst not as popular as the Jol Out Brigade in it's heyday, members are being actively recruited.

But who is seriously going to replace him? Hughes? Moyes? Klinsmann? I don't see how any of those are better than Ramos, what have they done apart from guide their clubs to mid-table? Would there be another overhaul of the playing staff come January? And what if they lose half a dozen games on the trot, or we end up out of the cups and 15th in the league by March, what then - another sacking and on to the next one?

What a bloody joke!

If Ramos gets sacked in the next fortnight it will prove only one thing - that our beloved club is being run by the biggest bunch of clowns seen in North London since Billy Smart's packed up and moved on.