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Mon 04 Apr 2007Supporters tire of being taken for grantedOn The Premiership:'In some ways I admire football fans. In what other business can you serve up crap and then have people come back for more?"This sounds like a line spouted by Alan Sugar, the prickly, bristle-bound star of The Apprentice and, in a former life, the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur.