A tiny supporter in a white shirt tiptoes away from a giant spare key left on a doormat at a stadium gate at night.

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Van de Ven Would Bring Back Kane, So Supporter Leaves Spare Key Under Mat Outside Stadium

Barry Napier · Transfer Correspondent15 October · Reading time: one pint

Tottenham captain Micky van de Ven told an interview highlighted by ESPN FC that he would bring Harry Kane back, calling him the greatest Tottenham player of all time, and the supporter has been outside since 8am.

A Tottenham supporter has placed a spare key beneath a doormat outside the stadium after the club captain said he would bring Harry Kane back to North London.

Micky van de Ven made the remark in an interview highlighted by ESPN FC and shared by The Spurs Watch on X. He described Kane as reliable, said he guaranteed 30 goals every year, and called him the greatest Tottenham player of all time. The Herald notes that a reunion remains purely hypothetical.

The supporter, who has not been consulted by anyone, arrived at 8am with the mat, the key and a flask. It is understood he regards the matter as one of logistics.

He said immediately. He didn't say eventually. That's a man with a plan.

No plan has been published. The captain was asked which player he would most like to see added to the squad and answered the question, which is the entire extent of the development.

The supporter has nonetheless swept the forecourt twice and moved the mat nine inches to the left, citing the prevailing wind. Passing stewards have been told it is not a matter for them.

At midday he was joined by a pigeon, which stayed for several minutes and was not asked for a view.

The mat says Welcome. The stadium is closed until Saturday week.

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Bent Says Spurs Sold Lankshear Out Of Snobbery And Supporter Lays Ten Pebbles On Stadium Wall

Darren Bent told talkSPORT Drive that Tottenham showed 'big club snobbery' by selling Will Lankshear, who has scored 10 goals for Middlesbrough, more than Spurs have managed in eight games, and the wall in question is eleven bricks long.

A Tottenham man spent Thursday morning at the perimeter wall of the stadium laying out ten pebbles in a straight line, in what he described as a matter of proportion.

The gesture followed remarks by Darren Bent on talkSPORT Drive, in which the former Spurs striker said of the club's sale of Will Lankshear that "sometimes there's a big club snobbery". Lankshear, 21, has since scored 10 goals for Middlesbrough. Tottenham have scored fewer than that in eight games across all competitions.

The man arrived at approximately 9:40am with the pebbles in a freezer bag. The Herald understands they were taken from a flowerbed on the way, one at a time, with some deliberation.

Ten. That's ten. Put them next to what we've got and tell me that's not snobbery.

He was unable to say which of the pebbles represented Tottenham, and eventually settled on a small grey one at the end that he described as "doing its best". The remainder, he said, were Middlesbrough's.

He has also taken steps to address the snobbery personally. By 11:00am he had greeted a steward, a man in a hi-vis jacket and a delivery driver as equals, and had asked the pigeon on the forecourt how it was getting on. Our correspondent notes the pigeon did not respond, which the man took as further evidence.

At time of going to press he was holding an eleventh pebble, undecided whether it belonged to Dominic Solanke, whom Roberto De Zerbi has called a complete striker, or whether it should simply be put back.

He put it in his pocket.

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