When it come to loyalty in football, let’s face it, nobody has it accept the fans. Players will always want to go to a more successful club and for more money, that’s just how it is, players like Matt Le Tissier who stay at the one club for their whole careers just aren’t around anymore and a lot of that is down to the money in the Premier League.

So, if players want to move on to what they think is to further their careers, why can’t managers? Owen Coyle is the latest to be called a traitor and why, because he wants to go to a club he has played for and has an affection for? Moving from Burnley to Bolton isn’t the biggest step he could have taken but if he thinks he can achieve more with Bolton then that should be his choice. Burnley fans should thank him for what he has done for their football club, he has got them to the Premier League for the first time in 33 years when they were the un-fancied team and have played some great football along the way.

The Burnley fans, to be fair, are probably so annoyed about it because they know they could be in a lot of trouble now. They have a great home record in the league but away from home they have had some real beatings, Owen Coyle could have been the man that held it all together so they really need to appoint the right man there or the second half of the season could be very miserable.

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It seems in the modern game with all the money involved in the Champions League that that is the goal, to finish in one of the qualifying spots and that is the mark of success. I like watching the Champions League, teams like Barcelona and Real Madrid taking on the best England and Italy have to offer, but is that everything in football now? What about all the other teams in the league that have no chance of getting to that sort of level, their chance of glory comes in the domestic cups, which some of the bigger teams don’t field full strength teams in anyway.

The domestic cup competitions seem to be devalued now, especially the League cup with only a hand full of teams really taking it seriously. No, it’s not the best cup competition in the world but it’s a trophy none the less and a medal for the players and surely that’s what playing professional sport is all about. When a player gets to the end of his career and looks back at what he has achieved, surely having some winners medals is better than just saying you played in a team that finished 4th best in the league.

It bugs me as a Spurs fan to hear all the talk of having a chance of finishing 4th and that is our goal. Really? Just to finish 4th is the goal, not aiming that bit higher and if that doesn’t go to plan then finishing in 4th spot is the backup. The way the league is shaping up, Spurs do have a good shout of claiming a top 4 spot if they keep up the form they have showed in the first half of the season, but there will be serious challenging from Liverpool, Man City and Aston Villa, so one of those teams will finish as low as 7th.

So now Spurs are out of the Carling Cup, I would like to see them really go out and try and win the FA Cup because that, after all, is the best cup competition in the world, offers a place in Europe and is a trip to Wembley, which it should all be about at the end of the day.

Rocky Baptiste miss

Could this be the worst miss ever?!

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He has done the hard part and gone round the goalkeeper, all he has to do is pass it into the net, shocking! He misses from barely a foot out but he can score the screamers, go figure!