AWOL 2014 Issue 302 3rd October | Page 24

Visit www.awolonline.net premature evaluation Spurs takeover off after bidders watch them play england INVESTORS have withdrawn a bid for Tottenham Hotspur after seeing them in action. Cain Hoy executives attended last week’s Capital One game against Nottingham Forest to give them a taste of the team in action but during a goalless first half several of them slipped into mild comas. Consortium head Nikki Hollis said: “We’d had a chat with Malcolm Glazer about how investing in English football was a great way of making a fortune without doing any work. “He also recommended it as a way of annoying millions of arseholes which, while not financially lucrative, is always fun. “But Erik Lamela? Chas and Dave? “No.” Hollis said: “Oh, and the pies? Seriously, what the hell?” Spurs had hoped the investment would allow Left: The Matchroom Stadium - a fitting temporary home for Tottenham Hotspur them to purchase their first striker since Jurgen Klinnsman and employ a songwriter to create a chant that does not involve Arsenal. Cain Hoy were due to make a cash offer for the team in the region of eight figures, if you include the two numbers after the decimal point. An earlier ‘one billion’ valuation of the club was dismissed, unless the currency in question was the Mark during the hyperinflation-hit Weimar Republic of the 1920s or the Laotian Kip. In a bad couple of weeks for the club they also learned that their hoped for groundshare of the Olympic Stadium in Stratford while White Hart Lane is redeveloped would be vetoed by tenants West Ham, leaving them with a likely groundshare of the Matchroom Stadium, formerly known as Brisbane Road, Leyton Orient’s ground (capacity 9,271). 24 Sell it fast with AWOL Classifieds