There's an excellent piece today by Kevin Mitchell on the incompetence of the owners of Spurs. It's an object lesson in how to ruin a potentially wonderful revival and undermine talent. The handling of Michael Carrick is, I learn from the piece, mind bogglingly stupid:

It was Commoli who told Levy that the club could dispense with Carrick because he believed Zokora was a better player. Carrick was happy at Spurs in April 2006, when he went to talk to Levy about a new contract, with two years left on his existing one and his World Cup inclusion imminent. He had been Tottenham's best player and was central to Jol's plans.

How negotiations unfolded, then collapsed, provides a fascinating insight into the running of the club. Carrick was on