The Premiership - Vamos to Ramos, Hello to Harry

And it is finally here, the headline that journalists everywhere have been dying to write in order to appear poetically amusing, "Vamos to Ramos!"

It was perhaps inevitable. As soon as Spurs Manager, Juande Ramos was given the Tottenham Board's full backing, a sacking was imminent. This sequence of events has happened many times before in football and will no doubt happen again. With just 2 points from 8 premiership league games and an early exit from European competition looking likely, Tottenham had to do something.

So what did they do?

The Tottenham board sacked Spaniard Juande Ramos and hired Portsmouth Manager, Harry Redknapp! This should be interesting.

Of the current Tottenham squad, Redknapp commented, "They have a decent squad on paper, although it's not a well-balanced squad, it's a squad with good ability, very skillful players, but maybe a bit of a soft centre. We need a little bit more strength and aggression about the team if we're going to survive. You don't pick up two points if you're that good."

First team coaches, Gus Poyet and Marcos Alvarez also leave the club as does sporting director Damien Comolli.

Clive Allen will temporarily fill in as Manager for Tottenham's game today against Bolton. Often when a side has a new manager, the team, conscious that they are now fighting for a place to stay in the squad, play a bit better. Lets hope this is the case today.

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The Premiership: Ramos has the full confidence of the Board.. oh dear

Ever since Juande Ramos took charge of Tottenham Hotspurs, I'm sure that all Newspaper reporters have been ready to run the imaginatively titled story, "Vamos to Ramos!". They are all ready with it, ready to go, it must be like having an itchy trigger-finger.

Now that Juande Ramos has been given the vote of confidence by the Tottenham board, the Reporters' trigger-fingers must be itching like crazy. The Vote of Confidence often means the complete reverse and is usually a polite prerequisite to total doom.

The Chairman, Daniel Levy has said he intends to give Ramos every chance to make a success of his spell in north London. He failed to mention however, if this had anything to do with Football.

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Chelsea - Avram Grant Sacked !?!

I don't know... eight months into a supposed four year contract, you finish second in the Football Premiership and come within one penalty-kick of winning the European Championship. Result: Not good enough, you're Fired !

It defies belief. After hardly losing a match and having the unenviable job of following a character like Jose Morinho, Avram Grant has been forcefully ejected. Surely it was worth building on this first eight months for the following season? This would have been the sensible thing to do, but sensible and big money Football don't tend to be the best of friends.

Well, there you have it, that is the world of Football or more accurately, the world of Chelsea Football club. A club backed by a Russian Billionaire who thinks he's not seeing a great return for his money. This is a sport after all, but it's becoming increasingly easy to forget in an environment where big money talks and any problem or shortcoming can presumably by solved by a sacking and throwing more money at it.

It seems now perhaps likely that Chelsea have had a high-profile replacement manager in mind for some time. Who could it be? It will have to be someone with a sense of humour. A precedent has now been set that if you finish second, you're out!

If he can work on the sense of humour bit, my money is on Bobby Davro.

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