I'M MORE than a little troubled about Spurs expressing an interest in moving to the Olympic stadium after the 2012 London games.

While such a move would make sense for the likes of West Ham, whose spiritual home is just a stone's thrown from the site in Stratford, Spurs are and have always been a north London club.

Then there's our long-standing rivalry with the red half of the N postcode area.

In recent years I've felt a greater sense of needle towards the Goons as we've demonstrated that we can compete with the best teams in the league, after a period of languishing in mid-table obscurity which made any rivalry with Arsenal pretty much irrelevant.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but perhaps the Irons have grown weary of their existing rivalry with Millwall and have hatched a plan to take on a team a bit less likely to cause a full-scale riot on derby days.

On a serious note, were the club to move to Stratford, all the valuable regeneration work tied in with the construction of our new stadium (and the inevitable leisure and hospitality add-ons) would go up in smoke, and an area crying out for a serious overhaul would lose out on millions of pounds of investment.

I really hope this news is no more than a speculative toe-in-the-water and that we really have our heart set on staying put in N17.

On to more pressing concerns, and the news that Jonathan Woodgate could be omitted entirely from next season's newfangled 25-man squad.

On his day, Woodie is one of the best defenders in the league and to see him so badly crocked that he won't even warm the bench until January is unedifying at best.

Now feels like an appropriate time to reissue my heart-felt plea for Harry to grab hold of a few fistfuls of bank notes and send them in the direction of a decent young-ish centre-back in the transfer market before the start of the season, especially considering how often Ledley King's knee can inflame to the size of a pumpkin if it's so much as looked at a bit funny.