Amateur Dramatics Descend Into Farce ; Daniel Levy has Turned My Beloved Club From City Slickers Into Village Idiots with His Crude Attempt to Land a New Boss and by Banning the Evening Standard

Evening Standard - London › August 29, 2007

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TWO WEEKS ago Spurs fans faced the new season with a spring in their step unmatched since the days when Terry Venables, Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne ruled the White Hart Lane roost. In less than two weeks' time, Arsenal fans arriving at the Lane for the north London derby will be able to mock their Spurs counterparts for supporting one of the most shambolic and despised outfits ever to darken the Premier League's mid-table wasteland.

And they'll be right to do so. Who or what could have achieved this handbrake turn of fortunes, this lightning transition from city slickers to village idiots? Come on down, Daniel Levy and the Tottenham board.

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Amateur Dramatics Descend Into Farce ; Daniel Levy has Turned My Beloved Club From City Slickers Into Village Idiots with His Crude Attempt to Land a New Boss and by Banning the Evening Standard

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