Well, it's finally happened. Football fans everywhere speculated that Tottenham's tie against Getafe would be Martin Jol's last game (irrespective of the result), and it being a 2-1 defeat at home only helped speed things up.

Spurs have been absolutely shit. Make no mistake. They haven't been unlucky, they haven't had unjust decisions go against them, they have just been rubbish. Their defenders make hordes of schoolboys everywhere look like armies of Maldinis and Cannavaros, and their midfield is an uncomfortable, depressing selection of limited players. And they haven't scored many goals either.

Berbatov is one of the classiest players in the league, Defoe one of the most pure goalscorers, and Bent a consistent, pacy striker who has been a consistent scorer for two years now, and cost them £16.5 million (half a million more than Thierry Henry went for, they gloated when the legendary Frenchman was sold).

Any club thay has a strikeforce like they do should be mid-table at the very least, but as ever, Spurs are just a petty circus. Obsessed with their "big club" fixation, and need to somehow try and hangon to the coat-tails of their now far-superior neighbours Arsenal, the wheels really have started to come off the wagon in a big way.

So what suddenly made Spurs crap? Well it wasn't Martin Jol.

He was in fact the man who rescued them from years of crapness, and put some attacking spirit into their football, and led them to consecutive 4th placed finishes when they had spent past years struggling to even make the top 10.

Originally hired as assistant to the dire Jacques Santini, he was given the position full-time, and set about rebuilding Spurs. Of course it helped that the EUNUCH seemed to be willing to spend any amount of money so long as the players were English, but Jol did a good job of putting together a team, and they played as such for two years.

However, there were constant rumours of him not getting along with board members, and of abrasive encounters. As good of a coach and manager as he was, he perhaps didn't have the nous and experience to deal with tricky boardroom situations, and the overriding presence of Frank Arnesen.

Things worsened with the arrival of former Arsenal scout Damien Comolli as the Director of Football following Arnesen's departure to Chelsea. The Spurs board, as they are prone to with their Arsenal obsession, trumpeted the signing of Comolli as some sort of one-upmanship over their North London neighbours, with the media and fans suddenly claiming that he was the one who had been responsible for all the European talent at Arsenal, and that Arsene Wenger never knew anything anyways. Comolli was very close to the board, and with the following summer's transfer activity, it became clear that there was a power struggle in place.

In came Didier Zokora, and Benoit Assou-Ekotto and all the other "talents" that Comolli had found, replete with media stories about they had all rejected Arsenal to sign for Spurs, when in fact there had never been any concrete interest. Jol's teams were constantly being re-jigged, and Michael Carrick was a huge loss for him. But the Spurs board had been convinced by Comolli that Zokora was the better player, and so they sanctioned the sale, which Jol was furious about.

And so it developed into a situation that was quite similar to the one that had existed earlier - Santini unable to come to terms with Frank Arnesen's overwhelming influence over the football matters. Jol was being marginalised, and then when it emerged that Spurs had approached Juande Ramos in the summer about talking over at White Hart Lane, the speculation over Jol's future turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

From day 1, he has looked miserable, and the team has looked disjointed and aimless. The defending has been slack, the attacking has been selfish, and the overall play confused. Against Getafe on Thursday, nobody was interested in making runs, the players were sulking, and when they scored to go 1-0 up, Jol looked as grim as ever.

The only surprise in all of this, is why didn't they get rid of him earlier? Surely when you start the season knowing that your board no longer wants you, and your players know this too, then the situation is already too broken to mend.