Sarah Hughes in The Observer decides if Jol can be said to resemble a type, then it is more of the Sam Allardyce or Ian Holloway mould.
"Of course there are times when it's important to entertain my lads, but I don't spend my time looking after them. Edgar Davids is 32, I can't put him on my knee and feed him milk from a bottle. We are a young team, but there are older players here as well - Davids, [Noureddine] Naybet - and they have their part to play.
"Davids, for example, he has been working with [Aaron] Lennon and [Wayne] Routledge after training. He is giving them the benefit of his experience. Maybe they found it odd at first that he was giving up his time but this is the Dutch way. In Holland it is very common for the older players to pass down their knowledge and experience to the younger ones.
Davids scored his first goal in English football in Tottenham’s first meeting with Wigan Athletic on Saturday.
"It is about the team and they are making it easier for me to get into certain positions," he reflected afterwards. "I came here to make sure we do very well and we are trying to work on the team performances to do that."
While Under 18’s coach Pat Holland described the heavy (7-2) defeat against Aston Villa last week as a 'one-off', Jol has been keen to work with Premiership sponsors Barclays on helping grassroots football.
The new Barclays Spaces for Sports scheme, a three-year, £30 million partnership between the bank, the Football Foundation and charity Groundwork, aims to rejuvenate community sport. One of the first sites to benefit is the New River Sports and Recreation Centre, two miles from White Hart Lane, which has been renovated by Barclays in partnership with Spurs and Haringey Council.
"There is not as much emphasis on playing the game when you are young as there is in Holland. Even at Tottenham we do not give our young kids enough training. We see them maybe four or five hours a week. When I was young I played for four or five hours a day. That's why they need somewhere to come to practise and work on their skills."
As to the future personally, he would like to see more interaction between managers. "We have an organisation of managers in Holland and everyone meets up and discusses things together, what they'd like to see changed, what works, what doesn't and I think we could do with more of that in the English game. I believe they are working towards it."
Martin Jol celebrated 50 games as Tottenham Head Coach with victory on Saturday.