"Go on, touch it. I've put the safety on."Football on a Friday night? It's just not cricket.
Perhaps that was the reason for Tottenham's utterly distasteful performance at Vicarage Road as
they scraped past a plucky Watford. If you were to believe the general theme of the commentary and
post-match media reports, you'd be forgiven for thinking Spurs arrived in north west London, rudely
parked their giant team coach wherever they chose, shaped to headbutt anyone and everyone on their
way in and spend the entire game cheating and coercing the ref into allowing them victory.
Back in November 2011, Preston City Council reluctantly announced that the redevelopment of
England's 50th city had hit the buffers. John Lewis had pulled out of the Tithebarn regeneration
scheme in the city centre and, operating as we are "in the middle of one of the worst economic and
financial situations since the 1930s", plans will now be made to scale down the blueprint
accordingly.
