Tennis. It's not football, sure, but it's not a bad sport. The clothes. The decorum. The journalistically suspect pictures of beautiful ladies hitching up their skirts that all the papers seem to be mad for. And the action itself, of course. There's a lot of enjoyment to be had in watching the same brightly-coloured object swap sides over and over and over again, often in impressive, unexpected ways. Just ask anyone who's kept an eye on Pascal Chimbonda's career.
The former former Tottenham full-back, currently at Tottenham, is looking like a future former Tottenham full-back as well. The French star served up a brilliant ace to manoeuvre his way out of Wigan in 2006 – handing in a transfer request which he'd hidden in his sock for the entire final game of the season. Then Spurs and Sunderland traded him in a rapid-fire transfer rally. And now he's on his way to Marseille. Or at least he's been offered to Marseille. It's a start.
Tottenham's transfer policy this summer can be broadly summarised thus: they want all the