Les Coqs Sportifs
‘IT was always going to take a big story to push Wayne Rooney off the Mirrors back page, but the paper that dares has found one.
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News is that Spurs new manager, Jacques Santini, makes Claudio Ranieri sound like the Queen and hopes to have many successes at Tottenham.
He is, by his admission no expert in English football, which is something that would not be a major problem were it not for the fact that hes about to manage an English football club playing in England.
Whats more, Frenchman Santini will not be allowed to go down the continental route to success.
Because the good news for Spurs fans is that the clubs chairman, Daniel Levy, has vowed that his team will not copy Arsenal.
This does not mean Spurs will do as Arsenal do not and play boring football and win nothing, rather that the club will remain true to its roots.
We are a British club, says Levy in the Sun, and will remain predominately British.
Someone should tell the plan to Santini, to Dane Frank Arnesen, the clubs new director of football, to new Spurs coach Dutchman Martin Jol and to Arsenal reject and Frenchman Sylvain Wiltord, who Spurs are hoping to sign.
But while Santini applies for UK citizenship in a bid to blend in with the tea ladies at White Hart Lane, the Express shows us, and Levy, that having the best Englishmen on board doesnt always guarantee victory.
The ICC table of one-day cricket teams of which there are only 11 reveals that England are now at their lowest position ever.
England are in eighth place, behind all the big guns and only just above Zimbabwe, Kenya and Bangladesh.
This is bad news for English sport – as is the Mails lead story that David Beckhams future at Real Madrid is in doubt.
The race to be Real Madrids next president is underway, and one of the contenders, Arturo Baldasano – who takes on current president Florentino Perez and former president Lorenzo Sanz says hell back the teams new coach, Jose Antonio Camacho, and ditch Beckham.
This Sundays vote of the clubs 80,000 members will decide who will be the head of the worlds glossiest club and what will happen to Beckham.
And if Baldasano succeeds he has also pledges to find the necessary funds should his manager want to secure the services of Wayne Rooney.
And, according to the clubs accounts, Real have more than £94m in cash to spend which should be enough to get their man and a few more besides.’
Posted: 8th, July 2004 | In: Back pages Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
