I just have three words to describe how the football season changed totally yesterday. How blurred lines and hopeful aspirations have now completely clarified and plummeted to zero. How the dreams of the wannabes were put to the sword in 24 minutes of domination and demonstration of future intent.

Kevin. De. Bruyne.

The Belgian returned from a 5 month injury to single-handedly turn the game around at Newcastle. The quiet man who you’d expect to find standing in the corner at a party, alone and sipping sparkling water (no ice), abandons his natural Clark Kent persona as he walks onto the pitch. And much as I hate his club with a passion, to watch him play is to watch a true master. I think he inherited Beckenbauer’s soul. Well, someone had to.

And now I’m off to Trafalgar Square. To March ‘for Israel’. Everyone’s favourite nation. I’m not sure what the stated intention is for today but I know what the outcome will be. That the 20,000, possibly 30,000 or more who gather there will feel their passions for supporting Israel bolstered, whilst everyone who doesn’t go will continue to hate it with renewed passion. We’ll convince ourselves that ‘we’ are right, morally, politically and in every way, and no-one who thinks otherwise will in any way be moved towards our stance. We’re really good at that. But heh, if we don’t think that, then who will?

As yesterday’s ’march against Israel’ ended up the predictable shit-show of Israel hate and blatant anti-semitism, with flags supporting Hamas all over the place, with nice, ‘liberal’ lefties from the Cricklewood Vegans showing their support for the group who murdered, tortured and raped 1400 people on October 7th.

Meanwhile, in the UN Court of Worthlessness and Impotence over in The Hague, South Africa, after a clandestine but fully reported meeting with Hamas leaders in December, have brought charges of ‘genocide’ against Israel. If this is upheld by the court, they will make ‘demands’!!! Like they did 2 years ago against Russian air strikes in Ukraine.
But genocide? The irony is not lost that genocide is precisely what Hamas states as intention on page 1 of its ‘Tips for better terrorism’ handbook.

So I will march. Someone has to. There were 100,000 marching yesterday for a ‘Palestine’ they neither know nor understand. But it’s the 20,000 dead we all bemoan. Just odd that no-one has marched about the 100,000 dead in Syria, nor 150,000 in Yemen. I don’t know the numbers for Sudan but it’s bad, horrible and tragic. Yet at the first civilian casualty caused by Israel, the UN, the ‘liberal left’ and the entire fucking world is up in arms.

And I shall stay there, in the cold, supporting Israel, until it’s time to get home for the second half of the Spurs-Manchester United game. That’s commitment.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx