• Autonomy pay £20m to appear on Premier League shirts
• Clubs still searching for package for cup games

Tottenham have today announced a new £20m shirt sponsorship deal with the software infrastructure company Autonomy and could boost their income further by agreeing a deal with another company for the club’s cup games.

In an innovative move, Spurs will wear shirts with different sponsors for their Premier League games and for cup matches.

The two-year deal with Autonomy, a global leader in infrastructure software for enterprise, is for league matches only and reportedly worth about £10m a season until June 2012.

The club is still tendering for a shirt sponsor for their cup competitions but Autonomy have become only the fifth brand ever to appear on the club’s shirt.

A FTSE 100-listed company, Autonomy is the UK’s largest pure software company. “We are delighted to have Autonomy as our new global partner,” said the Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy.

The move to split the shirt sponsorship between league matches and cup competitions is understood to have been Levy’s idea and the club are now in discussions with several brands as they search for a single sponsor for shirts worn in the FA Cup, League Cup and European competitions.

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• Listed buildings preserved under new planning application
• Unclear whether hitch will delay move to stadium in 2012

Tottenham Hotspur will present a revised planning application for their new stadium to Haringey Council this week after their original design fell foul of heritage concerns.

The club said it now planned to retain and refurbish the Grade II-listed Warrington House, along with three other locally listed buildings. It would also build a larger public square and provide ‘an active courtyard’ setting for the historic buildings.

The Northumberland Development Project will be centred on a new stadium with an increased capacity of 56,250 adjacent to White Hart Lane and will include a supermarket, housing and a hotel which has been redesigned under the revised application.

“Schemes of this magnitude involve much time and effort by many parties and we are extremely grateful to everyone who has taken part in the consultation process to date,” said Daniel Levy, the Tottenham chairman, in a statement released via the London Stock Exchange.

“There is undoubtedly huge support for the development and for retaining the club in the borough. Following the consultation period on these new plans we look forward to proceeding to a Haringey Council planning committee to determine the application shortly.”

The original plans envisaged Tottenham moving into the new stadium in the 2012-13 season and it was unclear whether this timetable was still valid.

English Heritage was quoted as saying by The Times that the first application was ‘of concern to us’ and that it would take months rather than weeks for its advisory committee to consider the new application. The original application was lodged in October.

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