Boardroom Talk: Sponsoring English Football club a good call. But there’s a better call than Spurs.

By Alec Hogg

SA government's proposed sponsorship of Tottenham Hotspur may or may not have something to do with the creative mind of one Stephen Koseff. The co-founder of Investec has long served as a sounding board for SA's political bigwigs – and also happens to be an obsessive Spurs fan (his company's logo once adorned the club's shirt).  

I've known Stephen since the early 1980s when he occupied shared office space in the modest IGI building at the bottom of Mooi Street, where Investec began life as a leasing company. Undoubtedly, after Rwanda's success with Arsenal, his rational brain would quickly see the enormous leverage of the proposed football sponsorship. But whoever decided on the Spurs is missing the point.   

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