Is George Graham's departure a victory for Tottenham tradition? No, says Paul Kelso, he paid the pricce for not winning football matches
Since George Graham was turfed out to make way for the Second Coming at White Hart Lane there has been so much talk of The Spurs Way that the uninitiated would be excused for thinking Haringey Council were renaming the Tottenham High Road. Of course many clubs have a distinct self-image, an unwritten statement of principle based in equal parts on tradition and nostalgia – West Ham’s academy, Everton’s school of science or Wimbledon’s school of hard knocks – but at Spurs the blend is particularly potent.