JIMBO #COYS

Management requires man-management, whether that’s stick or carrot (and mainly carrot nowadays). Igor Tudor doesn’t appear to possess any obvious man-management skills. He’s the caretaker who doesn’t take care. That’s another reason why Tottenham Hotspur’s hesitant board should have removed him within hours of the final whistle of the humiliation at Atletico Madrid. Tudor might have felt he had a case to start Antonin Kinsky because of Guglielmo Vicario’s flaws. Tudor might have felt he had a (stronger) case to remove Kinsky after 17 hapless minutes. What was unforgivable was Tudor failing to show any empathy for a crestfallen 22-year-old as he made the walk of blame. It’s not about being soft in a hard world. It’s about basic people skills and also not alienating the rest of the dressing-room, who will have felt for Kinsky. Lack of leadership runs through Spurs from senior players not taking responsibility and/or getting suspended to the board's poor decision-making to a dug-out devoid of credibility. It says everything about the absence of accountability and authority at Spurs that Tudor has not gone yet. #THFC