I love this time in the football season. The sharp end. When things get decided. Who wins what. Which cups go to whom. Where the valuable final placings are set.

Spurs are still in with a good shout for a 4th place finish. We just need Newcastle to get a 10-point penalty deduction for some dubious Saudi irregularities there, which I’m sure could be found in time. Or for Manchester United to just fuck off. Oh, and we need to win a few more games. Possibly the most difficult of those three possibilities. Though we did win yesterday. I’ll say ‘the hard way’, but ‘at da ennadaday’, free points is free points. Innit. The hard way? Yeah, we always do things the hard way. Yesterday’s hard bit involved having 2 Brighton goals overturned by VAR (I fucking love VAR, always have, never had a bad word to say about it) and they also had a clear cut penalty not given. So effectively we lost 4-2 but actually managed to win it 2-1.

And we also ‘lost’ our caretaker manager and our possible next manager (if tales are to be believed) who both got sent off by the ref after fighting on the touch line.

Oh yes, managers. Where push comes to shove. And both apply when they get sacked. At this time of year it all becomes very critical.

Nottingham Forest lost yesterday leaving them in a very precarious position. Leaving the club in a ‘stick or twist’ situation with their manager. ‘Shit or bust’, perhaps. Because although they love(d) Steve Cooper in Nottingham, would a change improve their chances of relegation avoidance?

Chelsea have tried the ‘twist’ option, though being fairly ‘safe’, they can afford to experiment. So they brought in Frank Lampard as a ‘caretaker’ because he’ll (apparently) ‘boost the morale’ at the club. How’d that work yesterday, Frankie?? And his problem will be the same as his predecessor’s, namely, how do you keep multi-million pound superstars happy when they’re sitting on the bench because you have too many to count? Personally, I find the man rather depressing.

David Moyes managed to scrape a win with West Ham yesterday leaving him safe for the next 8 days until they lose to Arsenal.

Here’s my plan for Spurs:

Get Vincent Kompany in as manager, (suggested by Nathan the Gooner, bless him). He’s fucking brilliant, (Kompany, not Nathan, as I said, he’s a Gooner), delightfully charming and has done miracles at Burnley. The man is a ‘winner’ in every sense and I love him. Possibly not as much as I love Ollie Watkins, the Villa striker, with whom I have a man-crush. We should sell Harry Kane (yes, I am the antichrist but hear me out) and with the 295 million quid we get, buy in Ollie and build some creativity into the team. We need Christian Eriksen back. Or Luca Modric, he’s got a few more… months in him, surely?

Ok, Arsenal playing at Liverpool is a rather delicious fixture for later, I shall enjoy. Possibly.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx