Spurs played yesterday. Beat Leicester 3 nil. Brilliant. Superb. Stunning. Free points. To take us nearer to a competition we really don’t like very much but Morinho has won the Europa League twice with various teams and if we were to win it, we’d get into the Champions League (a competition we like very much) the following year. If we hadn’t already qualified on league position. Or by winning the league 35 points clear of the next team. Which is the best case scenario. Or the least likely scenario, if you’re of a more pessimistic or anti-Spurs kind of mood.

And here’s the problem. That we’re winning. Gathering up those points like they were falling apples off the trees. Which must be a good thing, right? Winning games. Beating teams like Leicester who, not so long ago were high and dry in 3rd place. Beating Arsenal? That can never ever be a bad thing.

Leicester have injuries. That’s the party line. Essentially, they’ve lost it. Can’t beat anyone, look quite likely to have squandered a seemingly invincible entry to the Champions League. And they weren’t very good. Yet came to ‘my’ stadium yesterday and had the audacity to have 70% of the possession. Leaving us with just… errr… 43.95%. Or less! They had 24 attempts on goal. We had 7. Their time might have been better spent going to Specsavers.

For Jose Morinho, life gets no better. A good win against a good club. A clean sheet. Strong and resolute, almost impregnable.

BUT ITS NOT SPURS.

It’s not what we do, not how we play, not what we want. It’s George Graham’s Arsenal. It’s Stoke. Route 1 football. It’s about parking buses and scoring on the break. Even in home matches. Which we did to great effect yesterday, obviously. But as Jamie Rednapp astutely noted; we’d never get away with playing in such a way with a full stadium. The fans would get nervous, that would transmit to the players (usually in really unsubtle, totally unambiguous ways), and frustration would result in errors.

So yes, of course I want my team to keep on winning. But do I want them to win ‘like this’? Would I sacrifice points for style? Hmmmm. Why does David Ginola’s face always spring to mind when I have this conversation? And as its generally a conversation I have with myself (a more common occurrence with age, and the arguments get more passionate and demonstrative, even when I’m on the train or walking down the street), it ends with ‘I want it all’. The wins, the style, the grace, the flowing football, the strong defence, the killer through balls, rampaging wing backs, power, pace and glory…

Which is why I’ve now become a Manchester City fan. Possibly Liverpool. Even the very recent Manchester United. Never Chelsea or Arsenal, obviously, they’re unworthy and not very good.

I’m struggling with Morinho.

Monday in a quandary.

A xxxx