It’s not quite official but the truth is the writing has been stencilled on the wall waiting for someone to colour it in for quite some time. Tim Sherwood is going. Is it time for jelly and ice cream and a bouncy castle, or should we all take a moment to look at ourselves in the mirror?

At the very heart of this saga is the truth that a man has lost his job. A football man who gave everything he had but has been found wanting. Love him or hate him the truth his he gave his all and for that much he won my respect. He may not have had the skills to take the club forward, but at no point did he claim to.

Sherwood a failure? Perhaps, but then so has pretty much every manager since Bill Nicholson, and even he had his barren spells. Sherwood was a novice put in charge of a club that a former French national manager, a double UEFA Cup winning manager, a FA Cup winning manager and a lovable Dutchman were unable to tame. Failing to command and get Spurs to produce something is not a unique event.

The only way he would have been able to win people over was correcting a squad that had been malfunctioning for a long time already

All of these managers mentioned above had at least a summer to put something tangible together. Tim didn’t. The former midfielder wasn’t so much parachuted in as dropped into shark infested waters from a Red Bull stratospheric diving platform.

Before he even began to move his arms the sharks were dining on Sherwood sashimi. He’s a Gooner, he has a Arsenal tattoo, he got AVB sacked, he is this or that.

The only way he would have been able to win people over was correcting a squad that had been malfunctioning for a long time already. The squad was flawed with its intended pilot in the cockpit, what chance did the person who grabbed the stick have as it plummeted towards earth?

Along this turbulent journey, Sherwood to his credit occasionally managed to make a believer out of me. There have been moments where against all odds the team showed character, a tactical nuance here and there and I thought “what if Sherwood was given time?” Is it so preposterous to allow a young hungry manager to build something? It seems so.

The fundamental flaw in his career was his mouth, this however is a Tottenham flaw as much as a Sherwood flaw. In alongside him Tottenham should have employed a experienced coach, someone to help him navigate the media waters. This never happened and he was left alone with Chris Ramsey and Les Ferdinand, both as inexperienced as Tim.

it was never about supporting or loving Sherwood it was about wanting Spurs to win

In an amongst the wreckage of his first managerial outing, there are a few who shouldn’t be shielded from the fallout. Franco Baldini, Daniel Levy and every single Spurs player deserves a portion of blame.

At Chelsea and Liverpool it wasn’t Sherwood who bundled the ball into his own net or slipped in Eto’o to run in at goal. Nor was it his decision to put the faith of a top four bid onto the shoulders of luminaries such as Danny Rose and Kyle Naughton. We have been found wanting across the pitch, the dugout, the boardroom and the stands.

I was there against Hull when AVB, in a PR sense, made the gaff of questioning us, but deep down he was right. What has happened to us? StubHub, Y-word and ticket prices have knocked us, but we lost that sense of supporting that makes 1882 so refreshing. This depression should have made us stronger, instead it made us a weaker and fractured group.

Supporting Sherwood became something you whispered about just in case the Twitter Gestapo got hold of your timeline. However it was never about supporting or loving Sherwood, it was about wanting Spurs to win.

Over the course of his tenure perhaps if one or two players had tried a fraction as hard as him we would be in the top four hunt

Wanting Spurs to win became synonymous with “Loving Sherwood” and attempting to find the reason why he played Nabil Bentaleb, one of our brightest youngsters in a decade, a sin. How is this possible? When did we split?

We have failed as fans at times (at White Hart Lane mostly) this season, just as bad as Sherwood failed as manager.

Tonight I fear for the reaction Sherwood will receive. Does he deserve the abuse and names he has been called? Probably not, its football, he hasn’t killed anyone or locked anyone in a dungeon, he just had the misfortune of being put in charge of Tottenham. Sherwood isn’t the first and wont be the last manager we chew up and spit out. This reflect badly on us, not on him.

Amongst the gloating and “told you so” perhaps we take a moment to remember the human element of football. A man has lost his job, a man that tried his best to make it work, he gave it his all, but fundamentally he failed, but at least he tried.

Over the course of his tenure perhaps if one or two players had tried a fraction as hard as him we would be in the top four hunt. This is a bad day all round and no one should be gloating.

Jelly and ice cream? Bouncy castle? Do me a favour. Go find some class. We are meant to be better than them lot.