I HAD been thinking about breaking the habit of a lifetime and buying the new Spurs kit for this season, but then I found out something which made me leave the moths in my wallet undisturbed for a little longer.

The club has recently unveiled the new home, away and third kits and while this has become par for the course in recent years, one thing new development is that the shirts worn during the FA Cup matches will feature different sponsors to those seen in the Prem.

So that's six different jerseys. And if you want to collect the whole lot, at £45 a pop, that would set you back £270.

Of course, only a complete mentalist would do something like that, but the point remains that it's an expensive prospect.

Spurs have brought out three new kits each season for the last six years and while the new version is an improvement on at least the last two or three incarnations, it is a bit of a cheek to see the club cashing in on a successful spell in such a way.

I understand that the coffers need to be swelled to fund our swanky new stadium, assuming that Haringey Council's planning department know what's good for them.

But surely once we've sold the ground's naming rights to some spurious Far Eastern gambling consortium and plastered every square inch of the place in adverts for local builders' merchants then we'll be back in the black?

Thank goodness that all of these off-the-pitch worries aren't the concern of manager Harry Redknapp, because he's already got enough on his plate as he sweats over the fitness of centre-backs Jonathan Woodgate and Ledley King.

To have one player of that calibre on the injury list is a worry, but to have two crocks in the same position – albeit with the more than capable Michael Dawson and Sebastien Bassong waiting in the wings – is a bit of a pickle.

Of course, Younes Kaboul is also technically a centre-back, but the less said about that, the better.

If neither look likely to start the season then maybe we'll actually have to buy a player this summer, which would be a novelty, wouldn't it?