Football

"Edgar Davids is poised to join Tottenham from Inter Milan on a free transfer subject to a medical and agreeing personal terms. "

I'd like to point out that Mr Davids is one of numerous inter players who have refused to come on the pre-season friendly tour of Britain due to "security fears" as a result of the underground bombings.

I wonder, how often is he planning on travelling on the Tube once he's over here? I suspect that Spurs are prepared to pay him enough to be able to afford to pay the Congestion Charge on a daily basis so that his personal chauffeur can avoid such unpleasentness.

Maybe all professional footballers (and other overpaid sportsmen, no wait that's it) should get their agents to include this as part of any transfer and contract offers.

They probably already do and I'm giving them too much credit for not having thought of it.