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“The English Jesús Gil”

It would, of course, take the Guardian‘s La Liga correspondent to begin questioning Daniel Levy’s tenure at Tottenham.

UPDATE: The Telegraph follows suit, even more pointedly:

Somehow, despite a CV that reads more like the script of a disaster movie, Levy remains at the helm at White Hart Lane, where no doubt he will take credit for the improvement Redknapp will engender (well, it couldn’t get any worse). And you thought the City of London was the only place where incompetence was so richly rewarded.

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“The English Jesús Gil”

by Brian Phillips · October 28, 2008

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