As there’s no more Women’s football on, we’ll just have to make do with the start of the Premier League Season today. For men. A poor and second rate substitute for the ‘real thing’. We all love the game in which babes run round in sports bras bouncing up and down and the goalies are all broken. But that’s over. So we’ll just have to make do with the boy’s game today. Ok, Arsenal played last night but only because no-one cares about them. The real season starts today.

But my mind is troubled elsewhere. I mean, its in my head (I think?) but its on the verge of war. Which is troubling.

Whilst the Ukraine/Russia thing is still going on, we’ve all become inured to the senseless devastation perpetrated by the Ruskis to the point where its always a bit down the news now. It comes on after the heatwave, just before the Commonwealth Games bit, with Rishi and Liz commanding top slot now, followed by the hose-pipe bans.

Until Nancy Pelosi stepped off a plane in Taipei. And then the world shook.

The speaker of the House of Representatives decided, pretty unilaterally as it turns out because no-one else wanted her to go, to visit Taiwan. Where all her fridges have been built. Most of her radios. All her silicon chips and a few cuddly toys she bought for grandchildren (the ones filled with nails and broken glass).

But she underestimated the scale of her decision. Because she is the third most biggest big-thing in America, after useless Joe and his VP, this is seen as a ‘trip by America’ to Taiwan. And although Taiwan enjoys a sort of democratic independence, it transpires that that is a mere illusion, verging on delusion. Taiwan may pretend independence and democracy but, according to China, IT IS AS CHINESE AS CHOW FUCKING MEIN!! And belongs totally and absolutely to China and no-where else.

Nancy went where no other world leader or even Speaker of other Houses has been for decades because to visit Taiwan is to acknowledge it as independent. Which will piss China off royally. As it has done. To the extent that they’re bringing all their toys into play. The missiles, the bombs, the warheads, the whole, quite literally, ‘shooting match’. A match they would probably win, it must be said.

I’m not saying that making a point of a solid stance with Taiwan is not a good ideological point, it emphatically is, I’m just saying that you don’t poke the bear. Unless you’re so old that you don’t really care about the consequences of your actions. Like Nancy. Or you’re a bit dim and didn’t appreciate the furore it was likely to cause. Like Nancy.

And now its my problem.

Come on Spurs!!!!

A xxxx