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Evening Standard

Managers the length and breadth of the country insist they are only thinking about the next game but Gus Poyet’s mind is already on challenging and, possibly, managing Brighton’s FA Cup fourth-round opponents, Arsenal.

The Uruguayan has the small matter of a 600-mile round trip to Blackburn in atrocious conditions for tonight’s Championship clash while Arsenal entertain West Ham in the Premier League tomorrow night.

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Spurs Show

It’s the Spurs Show, a podcast dedicated entirely to Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs diehards Phil Cornwell and Mike Leigh give their view from the Shelf Side in the only podcast that Tottenham fans around the world can’t live without. Major moans, lots of laughs and tip top celebrity guests!

Mihir joins Phil and Mike to talk about how Tottenham is currently faring.

Click here to listen or download the podcast (Note: scroll down and select the episode entitled ‘Crisis show revisited!’)

Evening Standard

Forever Tottenham: Cliff Jones has plenty of memorabilia from his successful playing days at his home. Image courtesy of Evening Standard

It is just as he’s seeing me to the door that Cliff Jones says: “I don’t want Harry to take the England job. With him setting the benchmark for the club for the future, I can see us becoming one of the strongest clubs in Europe, alongside Real Madrid and Barcelona. Harry’s got to lead us into the promised land.”

Tottenham supporters have been dreaming of that promised land since 1961. Then Bill Nicholson’s team, of which Jones was one of the stars, scoring 19 goals in 29 games, became the first in the 20th century to do the Double.

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The Independent on Sunday

Harry Redknapp’s innocence was no surprise to his legal team, who had been saying for months the charges should never have been brought.

But while last week’s not guilty verdict was an obvious relief to Redknapp, the evidence presented at Southwark Crown Court raises questions about how football is run. For despite all the money in the game, it is still more like a cottage industry whose practices most other businesses would find unacceptable.

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Insideworldfootball.biz

Michel Platini’s Financial Fair Play may finally deal with the financial doping the UEFA President feels is ruining the game. But there is an equally serious crisis confronting the game which Platini and other football administrators refuse to address.

This is the failure by football’s bosses to deal with the events on the pitch where almost every game is blighted by incidents the referees do not spot. These then become the subject of calls for disciplinary inquiries by frustrated managers, and often lead to heavy penalties for the players concerned. But these are imposed long after the match is history and the whole thing is making a mockery of the game.

Take the two incidents that have marred two otherwise very good football matches in recent weeks. The first was the match last Sunday week, when Manchester City beat Tottenham 3-2, probably ending the north London’s club hopes of winning the League for the first time since 1961, a time which must seem like prehistory to most football fans.

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