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Listed below are comments made by Hotspur1882 between Monday, 27th October 2008 and Thursday, 19th February 2009.

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BBC News and disabled audiences 3:26pm on 19 Feb 2009 I think it is ridiculous first and foremost that the ignoarance of others has prompted you to write this blog to justify your direction on the reading out of URL's during broadcast.

To me, for the two seconds it would take to read it, would in no way change the course of my day or life.

However, I will add this.

I do have a number of blind and visually impaired family members and friends. And to be frank they dont bother with television news, mainly because the programming and content is aimed towards a viewing audience:

"Viewers my find these pictures disturbing"
"And the Queen, seen here in ......"
"As you can see in Gaza......"

And so on. Radio news is the preference, in my experience, of those with visual disabilities. In fact two that I can think of do not even have television. And this is because television news as a whole is not accessible to all.

So yes, nice thought and for sure a huge dissapointment that people would be negative about it.

Personally speaking though, whether the URL is read or not is not going to make one iota of difference to anyone.
Jury is out on Spurs chairman Levy and board 3:05pm on 27 Oct 2008 Bottom line, the management turnaround at Spurs is not unlike any other at any of the top flights clubs.

Ferguson just managed to avoid the chop by virtually minutes, how many changes happened before Alex secured the job.

Arsenal had a similar spell with mangers before Wenger settled. They had more caretaker managers than London City Council.

What Arsenal and Man U have found is managers that have delivered. So of course there have been no management changes in recent years, why should there be?

Chelsea and Real Madrid's management merry-go-round is well documented in this thread. And even then look at the success both these clubs have enjoyed in recent years!

Spurs changes, as I have stated, have come from the fans. And that has been Levy's weakness, doing as the fans wanted and not what the club wanted. Even when Jol was sacked, loads of Spurs fans patted poor Jol on the back but loved the notion of Ramos coming. It was what the (majority of) fans wanted. And it has been the case under Levy since he arrived.

Levy has now got rid of Ramos (I still cant believe how many Spurs "fans" felt Ramos needed more time, unbelievable) and said to Harry how do you want to run this club? Harry has said what he wanted to happen and Levy has oblidged.

Levy has finally let a football man run a football club the way it should be run. Levy can take care of whatever profit margins he is best at looking after. He now (Levy)does not need to be a part of things on the pitch.

And finally, we can get back to being a football club again.
Jury is out on Spurs chairman Levy and board 10:39am on 27 Oct 2008 With the exception of Jol, otehr changes at Spurs over the years have been needed or beyond the clubs control.

"How Levy must now wish that he had discarded the advice of Comolli that he must go for a continental manager and gone for Redknapp last year."

How Levy wished he had have discarded Comolli's advice and stuck with Jol you mean??

The mangement changes at Spurs have been very much a pandering to the fans. For the first time Levy has taken it upon himself to make "decisive decisions". Even at that though the weekends developments were again due to fan pressure to a degree, (although surprisingly some think Ramos still needed time).

When you write an article like this put in to perspective why the managment changes came about. You are only telling half a story, if even that.

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