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Wed 09 Sep 2007Jol's new job title lives on borrowed timeNews Round-Up:Martin Jol has been called many things in private by various Tottenham directors during what has been a spiky managerial tenure. Yet, the Dutchman cannot ever have envisaged the label that clings to him at present and undermines him most gravely - that which says "caretaker".As Jol labours on through protracted crisis, the proverbial gun to his head, the impression given is that he has become a new type of caretaker manager. Nobody, at this moment, would bet on him being in charge at Tottenham next season, but with no alternative readily available to the chairman, Daniel Levy, he remains.