I’m fed up with goals in football. Fed up with the spectacular and the amazing and the concerted and the wonderful. Because they’re not currently being scored by Spurs. I have no desire to watch Manchester United score great goals, nor Chelsea, Manchester City or even Huddersfield. I can’t include Arsenal in that because they currently don’t score any. But this is not about gloating at the misfortune of others. Not yet anyway. Time for that later.

Because on Saturday we witnessed the foul of the season. When there’s still 35 matches to play. We’re here to celebrate an act of momentary insanity which took grievous bodily harm to the next level on any sporting arena that doesn’t have Conor McGregor in it. This was so ugly it became a ‘thing of beauty’.

Brighton vunderkind Anthony Knockhaert runs onto a ball on the wing. And he’s quick. From the middle of park comes Miguel Britos, Watford ‘enforcer’, on the diagonal. And at the point of their eventual meeting (Pythagoras worked it out easy-peasy) Britos lunged at the Brighton player, whilst travelling at full speed, with both feet off the ground, out of control and studs-up. The ball, it is barely worth mentioning, was on the other side of Knockhaert, ie the side Britos wasn’t arriving at soon, so simply was never part of anyone’s equation, other than perhaps Britos’ in which case, his maths is pretty damned weak.

The maniac defender’s boot landed on the side of the other player’s leg, just below the knee,  hitting with all studs. What is known as a ‘leg-breaker’. The leg was saved by being off the ground. If it hadn’t been so Knockhaert would not have walked again this season, if ever.

Though he’d probably have got into the Arsenal squad, mangled leg and all. Because they were, by all accounts, total shite. No clue, no passion, no fight, no nuffink. Gary Neville said he would ‘sell the lot of ’em in the next 10 days of the transfer window and get decent players in’. Arsene Wenger… pretty much agreed. Though he called it ‘work to be done’ rather than ‘THE MOST PATHETIC DISPLAY EVER WITNESSED’.

Spurs still yet to win at Wembley but I flat out REFUSE to make it ‘a thing’. Its just…

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx