Thursday Thoughts

So, another cabinet reshuffle.  I don't know why the media gets so excited about these.  It isn't as if any new talent is going to be promoted.  Quite the opposite with this government.  Johnson is simply not going to promote anybody he thinks might rival his imagined popularity and threaten his poor excuse of leadership.  It is simply a case of replacing one selection of bastards with different bastards. Whichever way you look at it, the current government simply is a shower of shit.  To be fair, though, they are the cream of the crap, the turds that have risen to the surface.  I've been avoiding politics over here on the blog of late - it has become so tedious, the uncritical way in which much of the media reports what this government does, the seemingly never ending lurch into right-wing extremism on just about every p-olicy front.  As for the opposition, I'm so, so tired of the Corbynites, Corbynistas or whatever the fuck they want to be called, doing everything in their power to snipe at the current Labour leadership and undermine any chance of Labour winning an election in the foreseeable future.  You'd think that the acolytes of a failed leader who led the party to two consecutive defeats, thereby condemning the very people they claim to care about another decade or so of Tory bastards, would be keen to see a Labour government.  Because, surely, any Labour government would be better than the shit we're suffering now?  But, apparently they disagree - purity of Cornynism, (which itself seemed to be mainly vague warmed over versions of pre-Blair policies), or nothing.

So, politics currently holds little attraction (or hope) for me.  Unfortunately, the same seems to be true for football, with the current management regime at Spurs seemingly Hell bent upon draining all the life and enjoyment out of the team's performances.  I was always against appointing Nuno Espirito Santo as manager.  After proclaiming, in the wake of the boring, defensive and largely unsuccessful campaigns overseen by Jose Mourinho, for the club chairman to announce that he aimed to appoint a new manager with an attacking outlook, then appoint a manager known for his conservative, defensive approach, seemed insane.  Which it is proving to be.  But, say the Nuno apologists, we've won three out of four league matches this season, plus he's had to contend with all sorts of selection issues created by international breaks and injuries.  Which is all well and good, except that of those wins, one was down to a penalty, one a fluky goal and the other was against an out of sorts Manchester City.  In two of them, we played abominably, frequently outplayed by inferior opposition, riding our luck to get us through.  The chickens really came home to roost against Palace, when we were deservedly thrashed.  As for selection issues, well, for those first three league matches, these weren't an issue, yet we still played uninspired, boring defensive football, devoid of any style, excitement or ideas.  Even with injury issues, surely it is part of a manager's job to find solutions and respond by trying a different approach?  Except that Nuno has never, wherever he has managed, had a Plan B.  He simply isn't up to the job of managing Spurs or any other club with top four ambitions.  He just doesn't have the tactical flexibility or the vision.  At the rate things are going, he's going to be gone before Christmas.  The question then will be, who will we bring in next to replace him?  Neither the fans nor the team can take much more of the sort of negative approach we've had to suffer under Mourinho and now Nuno.