Just over a year ago, an evil cabal of European billionaires, American hedge fund plutocrats, Russian oligarchs and Gulf royals came up with a scheme to rip out the heart of the beautiful game and place it on the altar of their greed. Only the heroic resistance of ordinary football fans, aided by an Old Etonian prime minister with his finger on the populist pulse, stopped this diabolical liberty.
What – as Lord Sugar might have said, were the former Tottenham Hotspur chairman not part of the problem – a load of old tut.
