Defoe: dearly missed

"Mr Levy worries far too much about FTSE points and not enough about Prem points for me.

Richard Cracknell, Spurs fan.
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Spurs fan Richard Cracknell is fearful about being reunited with Jermain Defoe at Fratton Park on Sunday.

So, here we are again Spurs fans. The start of a new dawn, a new chapter and a new hope... This time it was going to be different, something special.

A great old rock 'n' roll band once sang 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss.' Ironically that track is titled Won't get fooled again and even more ironically it's from an album titled Who's next? (The band is The Who for those who were wondering).

Well Spurs just seems to be a conveyor belt of false dawns. The factory foremen come and go in the shape of a Frenchman, Dutchman and now a Spaniard. However, one constant throughout has been the M.D, Mr Levy.

There amazingly seems to be little discontent amongst the masses at the Lane. A fair few internet forums seem to have a growing anti lobby, and in my opinion rightly so.

At the start of the season, the ticket prices were raised in order to, as they put it, 'compete'. Well this transfer window just gone has seen THFC make a profit, YES a profit on transfer dealings. And we now have a strike force that in my opinion is significantly weakened to what it was.

If Mr Levy was running a West End show called 'Silence of the Lambs -The musical' he would have told theatre goers that they were going to get Anthony Hopkins playing Hannibal Lecter, taken their money for tickets, and when the curtain raises treated the audience to Joe Pasquale in a straight jacket and face mask squeaking that he was going to enjoy a nice bottle of Chianti!

Not good enough

I still have yet to see Berbatov in a red shirt; I just can't bear to face it. Keane, on the other hand, I'm happy to see in Liverpool shirt. In fact, I have poster of it on my wall at home such was my joy at taking £20m for him! But to replace them both with a kid on loan and an unproven Russian (sorry remember our last dalliance with a striker from the East?) is just not good enough.

Mr Levy worries far too much about FTSE points and not enough about Prem points for me.

Talking of strikers, another I dearly miss is Jermain Defoe. I think he was treated dreadfully at Spurs; he was never given a run of games that he needed, and was bounced out way too soon. He never was, and never is, going to be a player that you can just dip in and out of a team, it's not his bag. He needs a few games to get his eye in, but when he does, I think he is as good a little striker as any.

I worry that he is going to want to have some revenge on Sunday for his treatment whilst at the Lane.

Anyway, enough doom and gloom Spurs fans, we should be used to that by now! It could be worse, we could be Newcastle (yes I've written this pre-Wednesday night and hoping this doesn't bite me on the derriere!) or even West Ham.

We need to do our bit, try to keep some faith, get behind the team and hope that someone with a 'magic Juande' can get things right - or make a trillionaire Spurs fan appear from out of thin air!

I'll be right behind the boys in the booth on Sunday, and if it all goes horribly wrong I can sit and talk about 80s one-hit wonders for an hour or so... Any requests?

Come on you Spurs!

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