A supporter in a white shirt, seen from behind, examines a table with a magnifying glass inside a garden gazebo pitched outside a giant stadium, next to a desk of microphones.

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Sky Sports Asks Whether Marmoush Second Goal Stands, So Supporter Pitches Gazebo Review Area Outside Stadium

Desmond Parry · Chief Football Correspondent20 October · Reading time: a half

Sky Sports has asked whether Omar Marmoush's second goal in Tottenham's win over Coventry should have been disallowed, and a season ticket holder has answered by erecting a gazebo with one chair.

A Tottenham season ticket holder has established an independent review of Omar Marmoush's second goal against Coventry, after Sky Sports asked whether it should have been disallowed.

The review is being conducted from a three-metre gazebo pitched on the forecourt at 8.15am on a day on which no football is taking place and no official is expected.

The Herald understands the supporter read the headline once, took it to be a question addressed to him personally, and left the house without finishing his tea.

They've asked. Somebody has to go and look.

He then walked from the gazebo to the turnstile, put a hand to his ear for eleven seconds, and walked back, a procedure he described as protocol.

The chair inside the gazebo has been left empty throughout, on the grounds that the verdict is not yet ready. A passing steward confirmed that the goal has been scored, that the win stands, and that nobody had asked him anything.

By mid-morning the supporter had completed four full reviews, each from a slightly different angle on the same paving slab, and reached a different conclusion at each, which he is treating as thoroughness.

The kettle is on.

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Marmoush, Udogie, Porro Injury Update Is Read Four Times, Growing More Concerned Each Time, Calf Unchanged

The Evening Standard's weekly injury briefing lists Marmoush, Udogie and Porro among Tottenham's latest return dates after the Coventry win, and quotes Roberto De Zerbi as saying there is nothing important, three times.

A Tottenham man sat down to breakfast on Tuesday morning and read the same injury update four times, on four websites, each of which was a little more worried than the one before.

The underlying news is brief. Spurs beat Coventry on Monday night and, according to the Evening Standard, picked up four new injury concerns in the process. Omar Marmoush went down holding his calf. Andy Robertson and Tosin Adarabioyo were also forced off, and Destiny Udogie missed the squad with a knee problem.

The first website, the Herald understands, called Marmoush's calf a concern. The second called it a worry. By the third it had become a scare, and by the fourth the calf was described as sparking fears, though fears of what was not stated.

That's four calves now. Well, one calf, but it's in four places.

On the matter of Pedro Porro, all four sites agreed he is closing in on a comeback. The evidence is a video of him rehabbing at Hotspur Way, captioned "almost back", which the Herald notes is a caption of two words and a quotation mark.

Roberto De Zerbi told reporters at full time that there were no injuries and nothing important. He said so about Marmoush, and again about Robertson, and again about Adarabioyo. The websites quoted him faithfully and then went ahead with the concern regardless.

Our correspondent counted the new facts added across the four versions. There were none, though there were eleven additional adjectives, three of them huge.

I'll just check the first one again. It might have changed.

The Chelsea game is at the weekend. The toast went cold on the second read.

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