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Tutto Sport Tresoldi Link Reaches Spurs Household Via Five Sites And Gains Only Urgency

Philippa Crane · Media Editor20 October · Reading time: one pint

Tutto Sport has reported that Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur are both keen on Club Brugge forward Nicolo Tresoldi, who has scored nine goals this season, and the Herald has traced the claim through five websites to a single Italian paragraph.

A Tottenham man at a kitchen table in North London has read the same report about Nicolo Tresoldi five times since 7.40am, and has been assured by each site that it is a different one.

The original appeared in Tutto Sport, an Italian publication, which reported that Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur are both keen on the Club Brugge forward. It is the only place in the chain where anyone claims to have heard anything.

The first English website repeated the claim at its natural size, adding that Tresoldi has scored nine goals this season, including a hat-trick away at Inter Milan in the Champions League. These figures were also in the original.

By the second website Spurs were monitoring the player. By the third they were locked in a straight fight with Arsenal. By the fifth, according to the Herald's reading, the matter had become a race, though no one has yet been named as having started it.

It's the same story. It's just got louder. I've had four slices of toast and it's got louder every slice.

The Herald has established that the only new material to enter the story since breakfast began is a Transfermarkt valuation of £30 million, which appeared in the second paragraph of every version and has not moved.

One site added that the 22-year-old's stock "may rise significantly by next summer". A second site, reading the first, reported that his stock has risen significantly. Tresoldi's price remains £30 million.

The man has now closed the fifth website and opened a sixth.

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Sky Offer At £35 Beside Tottenham v Coventry Listing Sends Supporter To Stadium With Roof Aerial

Philippa Crane · Media Editor19 October · Reading time: one pint

A Tottenham v Coventry TV channel, live stream and kick-off guide carries a Sky Essential TV and Sky Sports bundle at £35, down from £51, and notes that the publisher receives a commission on any sales.

A Tottenham man has mounted a roof aerial to the railings of the stadium, after a guide to the Coventry fixture offered him a Sky bundle, a price and no instruction as to where to point it.

The guide, a piece on the match's TV channel, live stream and kick-off time, carries a notice stating that the publisher will receive a commission on any sales. The man has read the notice twice and taken it as a sign that the page is on his side.

The bundle, Sky's Essential TV and Sky Sports package, is offered at £35 against a usual £51, and promises at least 215 live Premier League games across 2026/27, with more than 1,500 from the EFL and beyond.

Two hundred and fifteen. You don't get that from a living room. You get that from the gate.

The package further includes F1, golf and darts, 100 regular channels, and free Netflix and discovery+, none of which the man has so far received on a gatepost. He has nonetheless fitted a second, smaller aerial for the darts.

The Herald understands the stated saving of £384 has been entered in a pocket notebook as money already in hand. On the strength of it the man has declined two offers of a coffee and one of a lift.

Staff at the ground, which is closed on a non-match day, confirmed that the aerial is attached to the railings and to nothing else. The man says that is a matter for the broadcaster.

The aerial remains pointed at Coventry.

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