Revival

Or resurrection. I'm going to restart this blog, as one of my New Year's resolutions. That's a lot of "re"'s - although what the function of "re" in "resolution" is, I'm not sure. A re-solution? Does that make sense? Possibly.

Anyway: there have been such drastic changes at Spurs since I last posted that it would be impractical to summarise all my feelings about them in a single post right now. Main impressions from the past six months:

Outrage at the treatment of Martin Jol, followed by grudging acceptance that, while the means was ugly, the end was correct. Ramos is a better manager, although he still has a lot of work to do. If we'd beaten Arsenal they could have had few complaints: that's motion in the right direction. I thought results like the 6-4 against Reading were a thing of the past, but the culture clearly runs deep. Ledley coming back will be big.

Robbie Keane is an extremely important player. Great goalscorer, creative, committed and clear-headed (tragic misses against Arsenal on his comeback notwithstanding).

We have to try to keep Berbatov, but chances of him staying beyond the end of the season seem minimal. I can't quite see how he would fit in at Man Utd - they have so many attackers - but someone of his ability should see that as a challenge rather than a problem. For them he would be like a younger Teddy Sheringham. A bit like he is for Spurs. Perhaps the only way we can keep him is to win the Uefa or FA Cup, alongside a convincing finish in the league.

I'm not convinced by Damien Comolli. In large part it was his (and Levy's) player recruitment policy that got Jol into such trouble. Hope he backs the new manager.

Next game is against Chelsea. Actually looking forward to it.