The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.