Understatement of the year

"There is a lot of politics at Tottenham, but that's Tottenham as a club," added Bent.

With Daniel Levy, every day is one more day spent in politics, one day less on football. I have no idea why this man wants to be chairman of a club. He should contest elections for the Tories.

Anyway, Bent's Twitter rant apparently helped seal the most expensive signing in Black Cats history.

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