Beef Bagel

The Bagel is an uncle. My sister, the Croissant, has just given birth to the bun in her oven, which turned out to be a little Brioche, after a week and a half more cooking time than the recipe had stated. Yes, there is a new world’s smallest Yiddo.

She’s clearly a fan of good football after waiting for a good, skillful-playing team to be crowned European Champions before deciding it was safe to enter the world. Unfortunately, it did mean missing the game last night but then the Brioche is obviously aware that The Bagel shall be taking her along to as many games at the Lane as she desires. Great result.

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Quite a fascinating gambit of news today and yesterday and none more so than the rumour that our 60,000 seater Mega-Lane is to go ahead while the Spurs continue to play at WHL. It should be done by 2011/12 - which probably translates to 2013 - and as Wilson correctly pointed out yesterday it will mean a one-year migration to the new MK Dons 30,000 seater stadium which should just about squeeze in the season ticket holders, the players wives and not too much else. I should imagine the away players will have to change in the car park.

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Now, before I do anything else, I met a splendid chap not too long ago who has a website called Play4ateam.com - that’s it there in the title and you can even see it in my links just down there on the right too.

I haven’t played 5-a-side footy for a little while now and I know what a bitch it is trying to find somewhere to play with and people to play with. So, if any of you out there are looking to join any kind of team, from football to frisbee, are looking for new members for your own sports crew or anything at all with actually playing these games rather than just berating others for not being good enough at them from the comfort of your own sofa behind several stacks of tortillas with assorted dips, then get yourself to Play4ateam and play for a team.

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You guys and gals are practically doing my job for me. Wonderful to see. So yes, Mario Santana is all all but a Yiddo. Don’t get too excited just yet though. Levy & Co. have reached an agreement with Mazza’a club Fiorentina for £4m. That doesn’t mean we’ve reached an agreement with him. He may not even want to come to the UK or Spurs, which is more or less what happened with Eto’o.

In all likelihood he’s going to be keen and even Fiorentina sporting director Pantaleo Corvino said:

“I expect Santana to join Spurs within the next few days as he has been offered a three or four-year contract in London.”

The trouble is, there are one or tow things bothering me about this deal.

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I’ve got to admit, I was a little nervous about all this takeover speculation yesterday. It doesn’t make any difference who and what and where they’re from the Middle East of the Far East or East London. The fact is that General Levy is doing a good job and The Bagel wants him to stay.

I got the impression when all those United fans took to the streets before the Glazier family took over and it seemed they were more bothered about their English club falling into the hands of Americans than the leadership of their football business. I don’t think there’s any room for xenophobia in football. How can you bitch about foreign money in the game when half your side comes from abroad?

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According to Planet Spurs, they have “reason to believe” that our first fixture of next season will be away at the Riverside at 3pm on Saturday 16th August. Now before anyone starts jumping up and down or jiggling about a bit - unless you’re female; I’d be happy for you to jiggle as much as you like - let’s be healthily suspicious of this “reason to believe”. We don’t know what the reason is. It may simply be a reason to believe that they’ll get a shit load of traffic, it may be they actually do know someone on the inside or it maybe that they dressed themselves up like tea ladies and spent an afternoon eavesdropping on the Premier League’s meeting in between fetching more Viennesse Fingers and and straightening their wigs. But, now that the caveat’s over…

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A little confession. LB and I have been well and truly hooked into the Apprentice for the last couple of months. Now, you may have been following and you may have not but a gentleman by the name of Lee McQueen (good name) won the whole shebang last night and we were rooting for him because not only does he seem like a nice enough bloke, but Lee is a big fat Yiddo…

It’s actually a pretty dull video whether you watched the Apprentice or not but but that’s irrelevant. The fact remains that the winner is Yiddo.

The Bagel.

Thanks for posting that last comment Brownpants, I was just about to have a heart attack after I read we were supposedly considering a swap deal of Little Aaron Lennon (!) plus cash (!!) for Anton Frigging Ferdinand (!!!). What a nasty thought.

Thankfully, there’s nothing quite as horrific in the rest of the days news, although there is a hell of a lot of quick business, in which case, I shall get to it quickly.

We can knock one keeper out of the running as can every other mo-fo that was after Bolton blocker Jussi Jaaskelainen, which is a bit of a shame. Clearly a glutton for punishment or under some hideous delusion that the Trotters are going to be good again, his agent Peter Harrison has come out and said that the Finnish loon has gone and done the unthinkable by extending his contract at the Reebok.

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That’s how I feel when I read all the rumours about that Ferdinand creature being top of Comolli’s defensive shopping list at £6m pounds. You know, probably not bad in the air with his paper mache head but pretty much all he’s got aside the really annoying voice.

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Apologies for the interruption over the weekend - server issues but normal Beef Bagel service has resumed once more. Good work on signing up to Twitter those that have. What we all need to do is follow each other and make sure your mobile phones are set up to receive updates from our community. Then, if anyone spots any hot Spurs news - no pun intended - you can post it on Twitter via SMS through your phone or from computer. Then everyone else will receive the news through SMS and we’ll all be up to date wherever we are, and that includes if you’re abroad. The only cost at all is if you post a comment - a Tweet, I believe they’re called - by text and that’s just whatever your normal text cost is.

So, obviously if we sign anyone, any particularly hot rumours, if you see a player out and about or anything you see or hear that other Spurs fans would want to know about, then Twitter it. Now, to make sure you know who’s part of our community and who to follow, we can all use the same picture. This one…

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