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Mon 09 Sep 2007Draw buys Jol and Lee just a bit more timeBolton 1 Tottenham 1:The affable Martin Jol gave way to a prickly individual here yesterday. Talk of Juande Ramos or Jose Mourinho taking his job and a place in the bottom three caused irritation, but humour had not escaped Tottenham's manager altogether. How else to explain his assertion that he still had the full support of the board?"There is a joke in London now that he is the Special One, but he's not that special," said the Dutchman, discounting Mourinho's ability to give Tottenham the Champions League place demanded of their manager. "It would be a hell of a job and he knows it. Daniel Levy phoned me and said it is rubbish and that he hopes I will be here with him next year."