Former England and Aston Villa boss Graham Taylor says Daniel Levy is "franchising" Tottenham over his plans to move the club to Stratford.
In his column for the Daily Express, Taylor wrote: "I understand many of the commercial and financial aspects of Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy's argument to be granted the 2012 Olympic Stadium site ahead of West Ham. But it means removing their club from their home...their spiritual home.
"Worse, they are planning to take it into somebody else's home and they are taking it there for financial reasons.
"If that happens, it would be the start of franchising, allowing owners to pick up their club and plonk it somewhere else. If I said Manchester United could be picked up and moved to play in Beijing - I'm talking about in, say, 30 or 40 years' time - people would laugh at me. The season could be split into two halves; the first at home, the second half abroad. People will say it will never happen and I hope they are right. But I'm asking: won't it?
"The Premier League started in 1992 but did any of us, 30 years earlier, consider that there would be a such a league and that it would split our football the way it has with lower division clubs hanging on to the shirt-tails of the Premier League? Did we see that coming?"
