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I missed this in the Independent:
The former Southampton and England midfielder was to present an award to Tottenham Hotspur's manager Harry Redknapp, but not before an ill-judged wisecrack prompted collective jaw-dropping around the room.
"I always enjoyed playing at White Hart Lane," said Le Tissier of his time at Spurs, the London club whose Jewish fans make up a large proportion of its support. "It was the only place where I felt I didn't have a big nose."
The gag is unlikely to endear Le Tissier to the Jewish lobby.
But Daniel Finkelstein didn't. As he writes:
This morning's Independent provides a wonderful/terrible little example of how anti-semitic ideas are casually entering the mainstream.
...The Jewish lobby?
The Jewish lobby is the least of Le Tissier's problems. Because I understand that while the Jewish lobby was miffed at him, the Zionist conspiracy and the Elders of Zion are furious.
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