Will he be as successful as Jol or as useless as 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:

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!

Magpies consider taking on another 1970s throwback

Newcastle caretaker manager Joe Kinnear has revealed he is eager to bring ex-QPR boss Gerry Francis into his coaching team. What this means - apart from Newcastle’s foreign stars having another coach they have never heard of - is that Newcastle will have potentially the best collection of mullets in a management team ever seen. Kinnear said:

“There is only me and Chris (Hughton), and we have a lot of lads to work with. We need to work in smaller numbers.

“Gerry can do some solid work and I will pay him accordingly. He has no desire to be a manager or anything full-time. He won’t be involved in anything on Saturdays.

“I feel we need someone with that experience. He will not be a number two or anything like that, I will be meeting him for a meal on Monday afternoon to discuss it. There is a good chance something will happen.”