Martin Samuel in The Times today on Tottenham Hotspur and why the club is like the Daily Express. Made me laugh, well they are both total crap.Samuel says that anyone who has ever worked at the Daily Express would know why Spurs are in the proverbial latrine. His reasons are pretty straight forward and make perfect sense – it's the endless change, upheaval and inconsistency where no idea is given the time to work (or fail) and where muddled thinking rules. The same applies to the Daily Express where such high concepts help produce a paper that is so shockingly bad that I can not believe people part with their cash for it unless the readers are all involved in some secret mass experiment judging the affects of long term exposure to doom about house prices, foreigners and the bloody weather. Where would it be without the weather.Spurs are the same, and while it would be great to see Harry Redknapp succeed at White Hart Lane I not so secretly hope he fails. Miserably. They deserve to be a Championship side. If the Spurs brand should be anywhere that's where it should be. I mean where else would you expect to find a club that calls a grotty part of North London its home. They should knock it down and move out of London. Most of the fans live in Hertfordshire anyway.It isn't just traits of inconsistency that the two share. Samuel points to the bizarre approach the two have to staffing levels. The Express has of course shed staff by the bucket load (who needs journalists? pah), which is an approach that Daniel Levy at Spurs has also taken (who needs strikers? pah).The Express has it little chance of regaining past glories. It needs a radical rethink and relaunch, but that will never happen? Not while as Samuel says it is owned by a former porn baron. Where would it go anyway? What would you do with it?Spurs have at least grasped the nettle and might yet be saved from their true home. Stranger things have happened.
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