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Mario Melchiot's price of success
WHAT a fine juxtaposition of how clubs treat their fans – as loyal servants or targets to be exploited for every last penny.
The day after Wigan players, led by skipper Mario Melchiot, pledged to return the money of fans who followed them down to London to watch them roll over in such abject fashion, it was Spurs’ turn to respond to the freak 9-1 result.
And sure enough, if you go to their official website you can put down a tenner of your hard-earned cash and pre-order yourself a copy of the match on DVD.
Of course, if the club limited themselves to bringing out DVDs when they won something, Spurs would have only ever brought out two as the format was invented four years after their 1991 FA Cup success.