The World According to Tottenham A Dispatch from the Bleeding Edge of Managed Disappointment By the time the jet-lagged correspondent lands at Heathrow, Tottenham has already lost twice—once on the pitch and once in the collective imagination of a planet that can’t decide whether it still believes in fairy-tale capitalism or has downgraded to ironic…
Ange Postecoglou: The Last Optimist in a World That Has Already Called It a Day By Dave’s Locker International Desk Somewhere between the North London traffic and the existential dread of a Tuesday Champions League press conference, Ange Postecoglou continues to insist that football is about “the beautiful game” and not merely a quarterly EBITDA…
Joe Lewis, the tax-haven ghost whose name now circulates through every trading floor from Singapore to São Paulo, is not the boxer who once bruised history—he’s the British-born, Bahamas-domiciled billionaire who allegedly bruised insider-trading statutes instead. Last week the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, that marble-faced temple where financial sins go…
Tottenham Tickets: The Global Passport to Controlled Chaos By our Special Correspondent for Gladiatorial Commerce It begins, as all modern tragedies do, with a push notification. Somewhere between Jakarta and Johannesburg, a phone vibrates: “General Sale – Spurs v. Bayern – 15:00 BST.” The recipient, a risk-consultant from Singapore who has never set foot in…
