TOTTENHAM HAVE HIT THE JACKPOT WITH VILLAS BOAS

FOOTBALL

I THOUGHT Tottenham supremo Daniel Levy had lost his mind when he sacked Harry Redknapp last month. What more could old ‘Arry have done for the club? When he arrived at White Hart Lane in October 2008, Spurs were four points adrift at the bottom of the Premier League.
From that rock-bottom, he led them to their first-ever Champions League campaign in 2010. And they only missed a return to the competition because Chelsea won the Champions League - finishing fourth would normally have been enough to guarantee that achievement.
So just how could Levy do better than Harry - unless he secured the services of Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho or Pep Guardiola?
Well, he has blind-sided us by pulling from a hat a man who might well trump Harry in the glory stakes.
I would never have conjured up the name of Andre Villas Boas as Harry’s replacement.
Who would? He had been sacked at Chelsea after a torrid few months at Stamford Bridge and appeared destined to rebuild his reputation in Italy.
But now he has the ideal opportunity to do that in England - and at one of Chelsea’s biggest rivals!
That makes it an incredible appointment - and an incredibly exciting one for all Spurs fans. For now they have a man even more motivated than Redknapp in their hot-seat - a man who simply cannot afford another failure in England.
He has everything to prove and I think he will take some stopping. He will be given the control he craved but was denied at Chelsea (where player-power cost him so dearly) as Levy backs the Portuguese’s plan for domestic then world domination.
AVB (as Villas Boas is known in press circles) will be able to introduce the higher defensive backline he was unable to bring in at Chelsea (primarily because John Terry is too slow to cope with it) and produce a brand of attacking, winning football as he did at Porto.
Yes, I predict AVB will be a winner at Tottenham - and that he will take them to greater heights than Redknapp. Well done, Levy, for digging yourself out of a hole with a truly amazing appointment.