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Quote of the Day: David Pleat offers some insightful words at White Hart Lane


The former player and manager came out with this gem on BBC Radio 5 Live during the Tottenham/ Manchester Utd match: 

“Home sides tend to be very supportive of their favourite team”

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Posted: September 14th, 2009 by Ryan Bailey

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Posted: August 5th, 2009 by Richard Gilzene

Where will Harry Redknapp rank among Tottenham’s “Wenger Era” managers?


Will he be as successful as Jol or as useless as Santini?

Martin Jol and Jacques Santini

As well as having Chris Hughton and David Pleat (three times!) in as caretaker manager, Spurs have had seven full-time managers prior to Harry Redknapp in the twelve years that Arsene Wenger has been in charge of Arsenal.

Here are how those managers rank in order of points accumulated per league game as well as their league win percentage at the club:

Rank Manager Points per game Win Percentage
1 Martin Jol 1.51 42%
2 Gerry Francis 1.39 36%
3 George Graham 1.31 34%
4 Glenn Hoddle 1.28 36%
5 Christian Gross 1.26 33%
6 Jacques Santini 1.18 27%
7 Juande Ramos 1.17 29%

The big question is: how does Redknapp compare with those former Spurs bosses? Give us your prediction with a comment below on where ‘Arry will rank (1-8) on points per game at the end of his White Hart Lane tenure. The answer will probably be revealed on October 25 2009!

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Posted: October 27th, 2008 by Michael Lintorn

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Posted: June 24th, 2008 by Ryan Bailey