This football season is, so far, quite amazing and amazingly unpredictable. Other than Arsenal, obviously. Who are woefully predictable. But this isn’t about them; this is about ‘real’ football, at the nitty-gritty end. And the bit where one win elevates you from relegation zone to 10th. The bit that ‘neutrals’ find fascinating, and those involved view with a tad more stress and ulceration.

Spurs won 3 in a row and positively leapt!!! from bottom place up to 8th. Filling us all with that most evil of nasty, wicked things: Hope. So this weekend we went all the way up to Leeds and let them enjoy their first win in about 6 league games. Dropping us back down to 11th.

Depressing and mildly interesting.

Unlike Chelsea’s visit to bottom placed Sunderland and Manchester City’s rather catastrophic (from their perspective) trip to the land of Robin Hood. Because these 2 games simply epitomised what is so fabulous about our Premier League. As long as you’re not a Chelsea or Man City fan, where opinions may vary. But both of these great big, over-paid, money-laundered, cases-pending teams lost. Chelsea’s 1.5 billion pound team losing at Sunderland (team valued at £723.66). And Manchester City lost to Nottingham Forest, who beforehand were in the bottom 3 as well. Don’t’cha just hate Chelsea and Manchester City?? And its worth it just for results like this.

Manchester United, for the second time in a week, came down from numerous ‘2 goal behinds’, yesterday to force the draw against Aston Villa, in the week to win in a Europe game. That 96th minute equaliser yesterday gave poor Michael Carrick a stay of execution. Maybe. But with United still in the relegation zone, ya never know.

Bournemouth keep on winning, Everton looking good, Liverpool you wouldn’t want to bet the house on, unless it was someone else’s house, and Brighton are 2nd. But quite a way second. At the moment. Arsenal have gone really really boring but still win games. Is that any way to win a title??? Ok, probably, yeah. Apparently it is. But they must surely stumble at some point, and then Brighton will come in and show that in ‘our’ league, the unexpected, the seemingly impossible, CAN actually happen. It happened with Leicester in 2016, and this could be Brighton’s year. There are many in North London (about half, at last count) who really hope this could happen.

Or Spurs could win it. And elephants might fly. And Russell Brand might get raped by Jesus. And…

Happy Monday

A xxxx