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By Tony Attwood
If you don’t live in the UK you might not know that this country is awash with stories about spying. Not spying on our enemies but on each other. Much of this is to do with News International who own loads of newspapers like the Sun, The Times, and so forth. They owned the News of the World which has now closed because of the scandals.
Basically News International spy on everyone, from the royal princes through to their own columnists. In one of the latest revelations it has been shown that their investigators followed and filmed lawyers of hacking victims in an attempt to gather material on their private lives.
The son of the owner – a Mr Murdoch – has been hauled in front of the House of Commons select committee again and an MP said to him something along these lines: “You must be the only mafia boss ever who claims he didn’t know what his outfit was doing.”
Anyway, that is all background, because it is now being suggested that, not to be left out of the fun, Tottenham Hotspur has been involved in doing this sort of naughty business.
A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of fraud following complaints made against those funny people down the Seven Sisters Road by Olympic Park Legacy Company officials. These are the people who are trying to off load all the stadia and things that we are having to build in England for the honour of holding the olympics.
The chair of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, Baroness Ford, claimed that the Tiny Tot chairman Daniel Levy, had arranged for all 14 members of the Legacy company board to be under surveillance. Following this the Met Police arrested the man. Earlier a deal between the Legal group and West Ham in which the olympic stadium would be sold to WHU was stopped, because of legal challenges from the Tinies.
Tottenham has denied the claims.
So now we have an olympic stadium with no one to take it over, and there’s a new bidding process starting amidst concerns from virtually everyone involved that private eyes are peeking at telephone records and bank accounts, having presumably taken lessons from the News of the World. West Ham’s vice-chair, Karren Brady, in particular has been vigorous in saying her phone was tapped.
Here’s what Baroness Ford told the London Assembly committee: “My board were put under surveillance by Tottenham Hotspur and the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur felt confident enough to say in the Sunday Times several months ago that all 14 members of my board were put under surveillance. The Metropolitan police are now conducting an investigation into that surveillance.
“There has been all kinds of behaviour here that I could not have anticipated which, believe me, has not been pleasant in the last 12 months.”
Meanwhile I wonder if you have noticed just how many clubs are looking a bit under the weather of late?
Everton has fans complaining that the owners of their club are trying to sell the club, or trying to sell it for too much money, or not trying to sell it, or all of those things at once.
Newcastle fans are fed up because the owners want to change the name of the stadium, in order to bring in more money for the club.
England’s FA has been fighting Fifa over the wearing of poppies on their shirts.
Tevez is doing another Tevez and is off on a round the world annoy everyone trip.
Liverpool are full of angst because they have spent all their money and are not top of the league, and Chelsea are full of angst because they have invested in a new young manager and they are not top of the league.
Oh yes and a competition to find out which football ground has the worst toilets in the league has had to be suspended over allegations of vote-rigging.