So sang… Maria?, possibly Tony, maybe both, in West Side Story. Neither were Spurs fans. And therefore knew absolutely NOTHING!!! about pain, suffering and uncertainty of the future. That movie did come in 1961, however, when Spurs won the double. So maybe that song was a premonition… of TONIGHT. When we’ll learn the fate of my beloved football team. Whether they can, probably undeservedly, manage to cling on to the Premiership by the skin of their neck tattoos, or if they’ll tumble into the Championship with all the shame and suffering that we, the fans, will have to endure as a consequence. A consequence of events totally outside our sphere of influence. We remain impotent to the whims and fancies of a bunch of tossers unable to manage OUR football team, despite all those millions and millions of pounds available to them.
I’m not bitter, as the beer ad. says, no. I’m fucking furious.
So at 4pm today our agony starts. Watching Spurs, praying, whilst keeping 70% of our attention on events at the London Stadium, where West Ham play Leeds. And West Ham fans will have probably similar feelings to ours, but quite frankly, they’re a scummy bunch and in all likelihood are more concerned with the price of beer in Aldi and whether they can beat any northerners up, than the fate of their sorry club. Which endures this same agony most years. They’re hardened to ‘final day frenzy’ in a way us fans of such an ‘elite’ club (phah!!!) simply can hardly imagine.
But there are parallels everywhere. Symbolism. As Spurs play Everton. The club beloved by Andy Burnham, the ex-mayor of Manchester and quite possibly our next Prime MInister. If he wins the by-election at Makerfield. His ‘local’ area. Well if he’s a man of greater Manchester, why does he support a team from Liverpool? Probably because much of his ‘local working class lad’ persona is a sham. A skin he dons to be ‘one’a the people’. In reality he’s a middle-class, university educated posh boy from a leafy suburb in the Greater Manc. Rain belt. But that doesn’t fit his narrative. He’s northern, that’s half the battle, but his poshness must be secreted away along with Angela Rayner’s houses and Kier Starmer’s clothes sponsorship deals. He’s no better than Zack Polanski whose own personal story changes by the day, with the only consistencies being the totally undeniable; that he’s Jewish (a Jew-hating Jew, in fact) and that he’s a poof. Probably hates gays too, if he was consistent in his hypocrisy. Anyway; we need to beat Everton, for the SAKE OF THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY.
So tonight. We learn our fate. We just need to draw. A win would be super, take that awful pressure off. But if West Ham should take the lead against Leeds… then panic would ensue. Thankfully our players respond well to pressure. Oh, sorry, must have been thinking about some other players.
GOD HELP US. PLEAEAEASEEEEE…
A xxxx









