Tottenham supporters: look away, now. In an interview with the English Independent, Zinedine Zidane was asked, through an interpreter, if it was true he once had a trial at Spurs. "Who," he asked. "I don't think he has heard of Tottenham Hotspur," his translator said. Ouch.
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