I went back to work yesterday. As ya do. When you absolutely have to. And Lila went to school. No more slacking for the babe, time to get real and put in the hours. So at nine months and one day old, off she toddled. Well, she can’t really ‘toddle’ as yet, she can only do this ‘commando style’ crawling and her mum won’t let her do it on the roads. Lila loved her school. Because it involves ‘things’ and Lila is really into ‘things’ of virtually any description. So its a perfect fit because there’s lots of things there. Like other babies. Food. Good things. University next week.

By which time Spurs will be top of the league. Ok, maybe there is more chance of Lila starting at Cambridge than my team being top as Manchester City have a slight point advantage. And she is brilliantly clever. If there was a degree in ‘putting everything in your mouth’ she’d be at Phd level already. I think that says a lot.

But controversy continues to mar the beautiful game. Arsene Wenger has accused the entire world refereeing fraternity of persecuting his team because a penalty was awarded against them on Monday night. Which was ‘dubious’. Bit like the one Arsenal got in the last minute at Burnley earlier on. Yet in Wenger-world that didn’t account, didn’t matter, was something totally different altogether. Tosser 1.

And Jose Morinho, my other fave, has slagged off Paul Scholes because the ex-United star accused Paul Pogba of lacking effort. Jose’s attack was fair-ish, until he said that Scholes was jealous because Pogba earns more money. And that crosses a big line. Obviously not in Portuguese but in English. Because every Man United fan loves Paul Scholes. And loves the fact that even with none less than Zidane calling him ‘the best player in the world’, Scholes never wanted to leave Old Trafford. Never interested. Only wanted to play for the team he loved. Could have earned more elsewhere, didn’t ever consider such a thing. Loyalty. Something Morinho knows nothing about. Hence he’s put the entire fanbase, some of whom even live in the Greater Manchester area, apparently, ‘offside’. Tosser 2.

Spurs won last night at Swansea. Playing in the floods. Horrible weather. Horrible game. Not like the bridge I was playing, that was at times rather beautiful. But when I kept running in to see what was happening, it weren’t great. No-one drowned is probably the best thing you could say about it. And that WE WON. And yes, the first goal was offside and I DON’T CARE. And it wasn’t pretty but I DON’T CARE.

Tomorrow we get to do it all again against West Ham. Stupid scheduling but that’s what happens. Ok must go and watch Lila crawl to school.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx