Zing Tsjeng
speaker
5,630 appearances
21 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Zing Tsjeng’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He received death threats.
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Terry Venables even took him to court to appeal the sacking.
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But actually, Alan won.
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It was totally transformative, this football.
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But Tottenham didn't have much success on the pitch during his tenure.
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When the Daily Mail wrote a headline accusing him of being cheap and not spending money on the team, he sued the newspaper for libel.
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At the start of the trial, he broke down in tears, which he said was because of absolute total frustration with the newspapers.
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But he won and he donated the £100,000 in damages to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which is a famous children's hospital.
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Hackney Empire is a wonderful building.
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So, you know, a massively focal point in that now groovy and quite expensive neighbourhood.
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Alan said, I wasted 10 years of my life in that nonsense, in brackets, Tottenham football, and took my eye off the other ball at Amstrad.
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And worth taking a moment, I think, to look at what's been going on at Amstrad during the 1990s.
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They'd struggled to produce another blockbuster computer despite plenty of new lines and new attempts.
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Their game console flopped, losing out to the Sega Mega Drive.
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He also tried something called the PenPad, an early type of electronic personal organiser.
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He said there was an air of panic of wanting to come out with products that sold a million in the first week and a lack of patience on my behalf.
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How does he become a billionaire?
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Well, every year, the Sunday Times newspaper releases a list of the richest Brits.
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He'd been on the list since its inception in 1989 when he was the 15th richest in the country, worth £432 million.
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But by 2003, he'd fallen to 43rd.
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