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From the International Design Festival, Berlin

Seven Sisters Road

For those interested, I’ve started a collaborative football blog called ‘Seven Sisters Road’ with a friend, James Pearson, in which we will discuss all football related issues. James is an Arsenal fan, and I’m a Tottenham fan, so we should get some interesting dialogue. We’re still getting it set up, but there are some initial posts on there already.

You can find the blog here: http://sevensistersroad.wordpress.com

And here is the blurb:

^{“Seven Sisters Road is a collaborative blog between James Pearson, an Arsenal fan, and Simon Ravenscroft, a Tottenham Hotspur fan. Traditional enemies in footballing matters, Misters Pearson and Ravenscroft are putting aside their differences to engage in a public, international and ground-breakingly pointless online conversation about the ins and outs of top-flight English football. “It is doomed”, I hear you say. Well, perhaps… doomed to be a fantastic success!!!}

^{(Seven Sisters Road is in North London. It is famous as the road which runs between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur football clubs, separating the two fierce rivals by a mere four miles [according to Google Maps]).”}

338 days and counting…

338 days ago, on 27th October 2007, Juande Ramos replaced Martin Jol as manager of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES

…then:

Sir Alan Sugar on Spurs’ disastrous start

Tottenham Hotspur have had their worst start to a football league season for 53 years, a state of affairs which is nothing short of disastrous following a summer of ambitious spending and general optimism that this season would see them challenge the top four for a Champions League spot. The sales of Berbatov and Keane, not forgetting Defoe last January, have left Spurs rather short up front. And although they have spent large amounts of money bringing in the likes of Bentley, Modric, Pavlyuchenko and several others, these players have yet to gel and look far from a cohesive unit.

The management team of Ramos and Poyet have also come under fire, and I think it’s fair to say that some of Ramos’ selections have been nothing short of mystifying (for example, picking Gilberto for the game at Portsmouth). Poyet’s comments earlier this week suggesting that Bent and Pavlyuchenko cannot play together because they are too similar also seem a little off, given that the two players have had very little time to even get to know each other. There have even been rumours that the Spurs’ board had offered Mark Hughes Ramos’ job as manager, although these have been vehemently denied.

Nevertheless, Sir Alan Sugar, former Spurs’ chairman and star of BBC show ‘The Apprentice’ (and thus the British equivalent of Donald Trump!), waded into the debate this weekend with some wise words in an interview for ‘Football Focus’. He had this to say: