THE TEMPLE OF GLOOM
If anything, Guglielmo Vicario almost certainly wasn’t booed enough. That was the view of one Tottenham Hotspur fan Football Daily heard venting on the wireless this morning, as he made the not unreasonable point that for an annual season ticket outlay of £1,400 a year, he expects to see his team’s goalkeeper demonstrate basic common sense by hoofing the ball into the sanctuary of a nearby stand while under pressure after a rush of blood to the head led to him charging out of his penalty area like a headless chicken. Conveying the impression that he would have happily followed Vicario home and spent Saturday night booing loudly through the letterbox of the Italian’s front door if he didn’t already have other plans, the caller was dismissive of the notion that Spurs’ fans relentlessly booing their own players after they make mistakes was unhelpful and hardly likely to boost the goalkeeper’s confidence. In his view, once Harry Wilson had capitalised on Vicario’s mistake to score a wonder-goal that put Fulham 2-0 up inside seven minutes it meant the jig was already up for Tottenham in yet another home game, so relentlessly taunting the man he held responsible felt like the most appropriate reaction.
