Funny game, football, as they say – Amstrad Plc shareholders are less than delighted at the idea that Alan Sugar will be dividing his time between the computer and consumer electronics company he created and Tottenham Plc, where he is to be non-executive chairman, and may as it were take his eye off the ball – to prove that anything is possible, one newspaper suggested that Terry Venables is to become non-executive managing director of the company that owns the North London soccer club – but Spurs fans are breathing a sigh of relief that one rumour, later denied, definitely won’t be coming to pass: word doing the rounds was that if Robert Maxwell succeeded with his counterbid, the club would have taken the field next season as Maxwell Hotspur – or was it Tottenham Maxwell?
