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1 min readPublished 28 May 2010, 20:31Updated 29 May 2010, 05:52

Premier League

O’Hara Blows Offer

And I don’t mean Danielle…

Word just in from our man in the wide awake suit with the remains of an all day breakfast in a polystyrene box still stuffed in his coat pocket…

Jamie O has facilitated the collapse of negotiations between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United.

He’s supposedly said, ‘No fanks’. Well, that’s one version.

O’Hara we are told, knows he’s burned bridges at White Hart Lane and pretty much has to leave also above him lies Levy Inc and they are not interested in the endless, endless rounds of cartoon horse trading that the owners of West Ham wish to indulge in.

The Tavern understands that Harry Redknapp a lifelong Hammer follower himself …gave this whole deal a wide, wide, wide berth.

It speaks volumes that O’Hara is pretty much a nobody in the scheme of things and Sullivan & Gold can’t even get this right.

Van who? Thierry who? Joe who?

West Ham’s search for a star continues…