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Article: Football: Exclusive: Sir Alan Sugar Blows The Lid On Spurs - Graham is gutless. I made mistakes, but employing him was the biggest!(Sport)
- Article from:
- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2001
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Byline: SIR ALAN SUGAR
WHEN George Graham was sacked I was inundated with calls to give my view. But if there's one thing I have learnt from being involved in football, it's not to give knee-jerk reactions.
So I sat back and waited to see how the whole thing played out in the media, to see if there was a fair reflection of events at Tottenham.
I should have known better. It soon became clear that the familiar wave of propaganda for 'poor old George' was being peddled without a hint of an open-mindedness for the club's new owners, ENIC.
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