Do you remember when Spurs were 3rd in the league? Those happy, heady days when our position flattered to deceive. Well, I like flattery. And I’m a big fan of deception. Because now, having ‘plummeted’ down the table after yesterday’s debacle, I’m having to ask myself “are we EVEN worthy of 4th place???” This made all the worse by being overtaken by the Arabs. Not that league position is about human rights, morality, international murders or abuse of women. Otherwise Arsenal would be banned too, just on grounds of decency. But those Saudis from Newcastle, having bolstered their sad and sorry coffers from skinflint Mike Ashley to new levels of oil-driven billions, have done the inevitable (Chelsea, Man City…) and plotted their inexorable drive up to the top where the real financial penises get measured.

Spurs, meanwhile, are languishing in a netherworld of uninspired negativism. The plan of ‘don’t get going til the second half’ is clearly not working. It has never worked but we got lucky for a while. Then we came up against an almost decent team yesterday. Not fully ‘decent’ because this Liverpool is nothing like last year’s or the one before. But still good enough that if you gift them a 2 goal lead (the first goal deserves credit to them, the second deserves defenders getting shot. No names… Eric!!) its going to be very hard to recover. Because without poor, injured Son Heung Min, we seriously lacked a proper threat and even more, we lacked pace. When Conte brought on Kulusevski on about the hour mark, it proved a revelation. The recovering Swede injected pace, life and positivity into our attack, bless his socks. But unlike in our previous 2 games, we couldn’t get the last minute winning goal. Or even drawing goal.

I would have sworn more at the tv but my manflu cough won’t let me without consequences. Even though the players, and certainly the manager, needed to hear my displeasure. Otherwise how will they learn?

Arsenal won. Again. Which is even more depressing than Manchester City winning. Again. This time after giving their opposition a ‘one man head start’. And poor Bournemouth, after giving up a 2-goal lead last weekend to lose to us, they did the same against Leeds on Saturday. I wish I could feel their pain but I’m just not that nice a person and I have enough of my own pain.

I now feel that, in line with all newspapers and sports sites, I need to get some equality in my work. So for the next 37 days I’m only going to writing about women’s rugby league, women’s cricket and women’s football. Not netball. We don’t do that. Nor ironing. Just gels playing boys’ games. Otherwise I’ll get done by… whoever does such things.

Happy Monday

A xxxx