For "has had a thorough medical" read "was put on the scales".

Personally I am disappointed. Although it's a shame to see an ex-Arsenal humiliated in this way (not even good enough for Tottenham, wow!), I saw it as first confirmation of my "George Graham's leaving Spurs" rumour, first aired in January, which involves him gathering some nice going-away presents for them like he did for us. See this article. It would have been all the more poetic if one of those presents was the same as one he gave us! In fact, I was all set to start a "Spurs to sign Glenn Helder" rumour.

Also, presumably another £7million move for the Welsh "wizard" would have moved him quite high up the list of all-time most expensive footballers (cumulative version). By my reckoning it'd even take him past David Platt who is currently 4th in the FootballTransfers list! Who'd have thought it?