The real Daniel Levy: What it was like to work for the Tottenham chairman

Spurs chief has stepped down after a long reign that saw him both lauded as a football operator and vilified

Daniel Levy, a former Spurs season-ticket holder, is a genuine supporter of the club but has never cut through to the fans

This article was originally published on February 15 2025 before Daniel Levy announced he was stepping down as Spurs chairman .

Daniel Levy has a favourite story about himself. It is from a parents’ evening when he was 16 and the headteacher told his mother and father that he should leave school as he was not academic enough. “The next day I said to myself, ‘I’m not going to be beaten’,” Levy says. “From that moment onward, I got As in my exams and I went to university. I’m a fighter

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