Click here to hear his interview on the day the Blades went down

If you type “Neil Warnock takes the blame” into Google, about 90% of the results are examples of the former Sheffield United manager passing the buck to either his players, the referee, an authority or the biased Southern media.

This week the Crystal Palace boss was again pointing the finger by claiming that he would still be a Premier League manager right now if it wasn’t for Carlos Tevez, meaning he should be entitled to compensation.

The Spoiler was certain though that at some point Warnock must have accepted that he and his team’s own shortcomings had led to their relegation and eventually we tracked down an acknowledgement of blame in his interview with BBC South Yorkshire on the final day of the 2006-07 season.

While you may require Real Player to listen, Warnock’s key comments were:

• “Everybody’s played their part this season in giving goals away and

  

Popular businessman shifts blame onto former manager

With Tottenham looking like they might survive another season in the Premier League, chairman Daniel Levy has today tried to exonerate himself from the club’s recent troubles, by blaming absolutely everything on pesky former manager Juande Ramos. Firstly, he claims he should have brought in Harry Redknapp eighteen months ago:

“I can’t give details but I’m sorry that, for whatever reason, we didn’t appoint Harry then.”It would be unfair of me to give details on the historical discussions with Harry.

“Perhaps we wouldn’t be in this position if we had.

“I hope he can be a top-four manager but he has never managed a top-four club so you are never going to know until, hopefully, we get there.

After Martin Jol’s dismissal, would a club with Big Four ambition and a chairman with a penchant for big name foreign managers really have been chasing Harry Redknapp? Really?

Riding on the wave of positive feelings in north London, Levy continued by claiming the sale of Dimitar Berbatov was also completely down to that hapless Spaniard:

“We would have kept Berbatov even

No one guilty of passing the buck at White Hart Lane

Yesterday, Juande Ramos showed his willingness to take full responsibility for Tottenham’s current rubbishness, claiming the attitude of his players is still very good, and he is working hard to turn things around.

Today, however, Jonathan Woodgate threw a curveball into the arena of blame, by claiming it’s nothing to do with the Spaniard and everything to do with the players:

“The buck stops with the players.

“We’re bottom of the Premiership and it’s not nice at all. We’re hurting inside but we have to stand up and get ourselves out of this mess that we’ve got ourselves into.”

It’s great to see the players support the under-fire manager, although The Spoiler can’t help thinking they could do a lot more to support him on the pitch.

So, will we see Daniel Levy complete the circle of blame by accepting responsibility in tomorrow’s press?

Not bloody likely.