Levy, your £3m bonus is obscene while you price out loyal fans, writes NEWMAN

The timing, as it always seems to be with Daniel Levy’s Spurs, could not be worse.

Just as we are told one of the most expensive season tickets in football is going up six per cent next year comes news that the best paid administrator in English football has just seen his enormous salary rise from £3.3 to £3.6million.

And, get this, Levy also received a £3million bonus last year which even my ‘O’ Level maths tells me is pretty much exactly the same amount Spurs will recoup next season by fleecing long suffering supporters, many of whom just cannot afford to go any more. Truly, you could not make it up. Truly, it is contemptible.

What exactly was that pay increase and bonus for? It was also revealed in Spurs’ financial results released on Wednesday that the club made a loss of £86.8m last year. Levy got a bonus for that?

Or was it for giving that chancer Antonio Conte £15m a year to produce some of the worst football we’ve seen in years, completely denigrate the club and then put a metaphorical bomb under the whole operation before scarpering back to Italy with his loot?

It was all going so well this season, too. Levy, either by luck or judgment, finally alighted on the right man to lead our club in the outstanding Ange Postecoglou and what he has achieved this year, irrespective of our final league position, is close to a miracle.

The supporters are totally behind the manager and his style of football again. The whole club are seemingly pulling in the same direction, from the academy to a women’s team who have reached the FA Cup semi-finals playing the same attacking football.

So, what does Levy do? He does his utmost to muck it all up again, not just with the price hikes but with the even more contentious decision to phase