Spurs have taken on large debt in recent years largely to build their stadium. Unfortunately this stadium cannot be presented as a gift which the club was forced to give supporters and the public. In fact of, course, the building of the stadium was the result of a calculated decision taken by the club's multi-billionaire, tax exile owner and Mr Levy to increase the revenue generating capacity of the club. To this end no expense was spared on the restaurants and bars and facilities in general. The ground can make a claim to be one of, if not the, best in the world but the tickets are by no means cheap and fans, many of whom are in great difficulty for the foreseeable future, are certainly going to pay towards its cost. And it has to be pointed out that the government scheme for furloughing staff was not meant as a measure to help wealthy football clubs balance the books but as a measure to ensure that those fairly low down on the economic ladder don't have to starve and lose their homes as their major contribution to the fight against this dreadful pandemic. And yet we find that two of the very wealthiest clubs in the world - Spurs and Liverpool - don't find that they are pushed, after a long and heroic battle against harsh economic circumstances, into deciding reluctantly to furlough staff; they seize the opportunity, at the FIRST opportunity with both greedy hands to save a bob or two so that Levy - and John W Henry presumably - won't have to make a sacrifice at all. We're all in it together?
And not even a word about receiving tax payers money - state aid - after all the hypocritical whingeing they've done about City and state aid, despite the evidence freely available at Companies House.
