"I have an interview with a big magazine in Holland," he tells me, "in which I said, 'The only thing I would like is to go to the Premiership and go to Spurs'. I can show it to you." The magazine is kept in his office at Tottenham's training ground. Mission It is a word that recurs in Jol's conversation "My mission," he says. "This is my mission." As he speaks your mind goes back to the annual general meeting of the club's shareholders a year ago, days after Jacques Santini resigned as Tottenham head coach, after only 13 games.Jol, having just been appointed Santini's successor, delivers an engaging speech in front of 500 people. Real's expenses reportedly amounted to £892,000; the Puskas family eventually received just £7,000. It appears that Real acted in good faith, and there is no evidence to suggest any wrongdoing on Trendsport's part But something stinks, all the same.
The match took place on 14 August in front of a 40,000 crowd; Real, including David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane, won 3-1. I can think of one Swede who might be tempted home by £9m.And who I don'tA Hungarian promotions company called Trendsport organised a testimonial football match earlier this year between Real Madrid and a Hungarian All-Stars' XI, the proceeds of which were supposed to help pay the medical bills of the ailing Ferenc Puskas (pictured), the 78-year-old former Real star now in hospital in Budapest. The only hitch is that Ibrahimovic currently plays for Juventus in Serie A, and this man supports Visby IF Gute, who play in front of crowds of 600 people on a good day - in the Swedish Third Division. Juve have not yet received a formal offer, so there's a chance that this unlikely benefactor might instead choose to bolster Visby's coaching staff.
Single and unemployed, he decided that what he would most like to do with his new fortune was to sign his favourite footballer, the Sweden forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic (pictured), for his favourite team. "I'm reminded of him every time I see it," John said, wistfully. "It's the programme in my collection I would least like to part with." So, if there's anyone out there needing only a 40-year-old Eastbourne United programme to complete their collection, don't even bother making him an offer.Who I like this week...The anonymous 36-year-old Swede who won 122.9m Swedish kronor (about £9m) in the country's lottery last Saturday. A programme for the 1915 FA Cup final between Sheffield United and Chelsea recently sold at auction for £14,000. The programme most meaningful to John Litster, by stark contrast, is worthless. It's from an Eastbourne United match in the old Athenian League in the mid-1960s, which his grandfather attended while on his annual summer holiday on the Sussex coast. The same goes for the programme for United's post-Munich cup tie against Sheffield Wednesday, with a blank space where the players should have been listed.
