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Supporter Arrives To Claim Share Of £277m Commercial Income And Is Directed To The Megastore

Philippa Crane · Media Editor6 October · Reading time: one pint

Football.London's Alasdair Gold reports Tottenham commercial income of £277m in the 2024/25 accounts, with NFL revenue up five to 10 per cent according to sources, and the stadium was closed on Tuesday.

A Tottenham man has travelled to the stadium in person to collect what he describes as his portion of £277m, following a report that the club's commercial income has reached that figure.

The figure was published by Football.London, where Alasdair Gold set out the club's 2024/25 accounts and compared them with the last years at White Hart Lane, when commercial income was £73m. The man read the comparison twice and then found his coat.

He arrived at approximately ten past nine, a full five days after the Colts beat the Commanders 30-13 in front of 60,907 people, and found the gates shut and the forecourt empty but for a man with a hose.

It says six million a game now and one million at the Lane. I've been to loads of games. Somebody's got my change.

The Herald understands the report also states that NFL revenue has risen by between five and 10 per cent over the last couple of years, a detail the man has taken to mean he is owed a rising amount, and has written down.

He was informed by the man with the hose that the only open counter was the megastore, which he regarded as the correct department and entered with some purpose.

He was last seen at the till with a carrier bag, explaining the arithmetic to a member of staff, who nodded throughout.

He left with a scarf.

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Parrott Release Clause Passes Through Four Websites By Breakfast And Gains Only Adjectives

Estadio Deportivo reports that Troy Parrott's contract at Real Betis contains a €100m release clause, and Tottenham are not understood to be preparing to trigger it, while the player himself made four senior appearances for the club before leaving in 2024.

A €100 million release clause reported by Estadio Deportivo had, by breakfast on Tuesday, been repeated by four websites, none of which added a single fact to it, according to a review carried out at a kitchen table.

The original report, the Herald understands, said that Troy Parrott's contract at Real Betis reportedly contains the clause, and that Betis have no immediate concern about losing him. It was a modest sentence and it was handled as one, briefly.

The first website to repeat it described the clause as a major warning for Tottenham. The second removed the word reportedly. The third called the figure a price tag, and by the fourth it had become enormous and was accompanied by a paragraph on what Spurs had let go.

It says they've been handed a warning. Handed by who? It doesn't say. But it's a hundred million, so you'd have to take it seriously.

Each version also noted that Spurs have scored twice in five Premier League matches under Roberto De Zerbi. This figure remained exactly the size it was at the start, and was the only item to do so apart from the clause.

The review found no new quote, figure or source at any stage of the journey. Parrott's four senior appearances for the club before leaving permanently in 2024 appeared in all four articles, in the same order, with the same verb.

The reader worked through them in sequence, pausing only to turn the toast over.

That's four separate sources, that is. They can't all be wrong.

Each article closed by conceding there is no indication Tottenham are preparing to trigger the clause. In every case this appeared in the final paragraph, below the advert for a bookmaker.

The toast went cold.

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