Tottenham Hotspur leapfrogged West Ham United in the Premier League with a 2-0 win on Monday as the club's revival under Harry Redknapp continued. Second-half goals from captain Ledley King, his first for three years, and Jamie O'Hara gave visiting Tottenham a deserved victory as it climbed to 15th by virtue of a superior goal difference over its London rivals. West Ham, who travels to Chelsea on Sunday, has now won just once in its last 10 league games as the pressure begins to mount on manager Gianfranco Zola. Its slump in form is in sharp contrast to Tottenham's surge under Redknapp, who took charge when Spaniard Juande Ramos was sacked after collecting two points from the first eight games of the season. In eight matches under former West Ham boss Redknapp, Spurs have taken 16 points and have reached the semifinal of the League Cup. EPL chief rejects salary caps The head of the Premier League said Monday that capping players' salaries does not make economic sense and would make English clubs uncompetitive in European competitions. UEFA president Michel Platini has advocated curbing wages by introducing a ceiling based on a percentage of a club's revenue, saying it would level the playing field amid the global economic downturn. However, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore said such a system would like “be pulling the drawbridge down” on smaller clubs, regardless of whether the ceiling was fixed or linked to revenue. “If you have a club on a 230 million-pound turnover (Manchester United) or one on a 40 million turnover (Wigan), what is it fixed at? “You couldn't seriously fix the amount at 40 million for a club that can generate 230 million,” Scudamore told a British parliamentary group investigating football governance. “That would make us hugely uncompetitive with the rest of Europe and the rest of the world.” Top players in the Champions League are often paid around 8 million pounds ($12 million) per year. Salary caps are common in American sports, but Scudamore said the US system would be unfeasible in England. “They don't have to play in anything other than an American context,” Scudamore said. “There are 32 franchises, those franchises are played in cities that would rank as big as in our top-six sized cities in the UK.” Scudamore claims a “natural restraint on wages” already exists because most clubs spend 60 percent of their TV revenue.
