Is Juande Ramos Following God or Darwin?

Many moons ago I was having a conversation with a colleague about religion and the universe. She is a JW and I wanted to try and understand what made her believe in creationism rather than Darwin. She told me the story of how when she was younger she asked her Mum the same question. Her Mum explained it by saying that if you took a watch and smashed it to pieces and then put those pieces in a tin and left it for a day when you came back and opened the tin you would find that without the hand of a supreme being to put them together the tin would still contain the broken pieces you had placed in it.

That story and the conversation we had sprung to mind watching Spuds lose 2-1 at home to Villa last night. The scoreline flattered Spurs to be honest, an open goal missed by Marlon Harewood, three top class saves from the Spurs goalkeeper and dreadful indecision by Nigel Reo-Coker stopped the scoreline reaching truly embarrassing proportions.

This is the club that sacked their manager, who took them to fifth two seasons in succession and has spent £100 million in reaching bottom of the Premiership, their sacked manager, Martin Jol, now sits on top of the Bundesliga as coach of Hamburg. Having sold Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov, so soon (in footballing terms) after selling Jermaine Defoe, they are left with Darren Bent, Giovanni, a young Mexican who wants to score beautiful goal every time (surely he should be down the road at the Emirates) and Pavyluchehnko who doesn't look fit. David Bentley is signed and left on the bench until it's too late, Jermaine Jenas only came on because Modric had had enough and pretended to be injured and the goalkeeper plays like Paul Robinson on a good day (i.e not very good at all).

They looked clueless for eighty minutes.

If Theo Walcott wants to see a perfect example of where it can all go wrong for a young talented English born winger he need look no further than Aaron Lennon. Lennon looks hopelessly out of his depth at this level, he runs into blind alleys, cannot tackle, can't cross and spends so much effort on making sure his gloves and silly sponsors logo shaved into his eyebrows looks right he hasn't the energy or the fight for Premiership football.

This was supposed to be the season that Tottenham finally made the big breakthrough. If I was one of their supporters I'd just be hoping they can make the big breakout (from the bottom three).

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The More I Learn The Less I Know

Are Newcastle United fans a little short on brain cells. No, there's no need to shout 'yes' at the screen it was a rhetorical question. Having made life uncomfortable for Mike Ashley and helped him decide that in the best interests of all concerned he should sell the club, the so-called fans have now decided that they will petition the club and force him into selling! So how does that work then?

I know it's tough when the love of your life doesn't reciprocate but come on guys, Kevin Keegan has done a runner again, just like he did in 1995, then did again with England and Manchester City. He doesn't want to be associated with failure and so runs away when the going gets tough, he succeeded in his first term as manager by spending extravagently at a time when the club could only go one way anyway, anybody who seriously believes that Newcastle United were going to be relegated to the old Third Division are deluding themselves.