Now this is funny. I went for a walk this afternoon. We went out in the almost sunshine, in Tier 3. But we came back in the pissing down rain, in TIER 4!!!! I mean, that’s fucking Twilight Zone, right there. But other than the weather, is Tier 4 really any different? I’m not sure. Liverpool beat Palace 7 nil, but as that was in Tier 3, will the result be allowed to stand? I think not. Crystal Palace is in London and thus was about to enter the Tier that didn’t exist before 4 o’clock this afternoon, giving Liverpool a decidedly unfair advantage. Not over Palace, no-one cares about them, but over Spurs who, as a consequence of losing at Liverpool in the week and then being in the same Tier as Palace, find themselves 6 points adrift. There should be some kind of furlough scheme for Premiership points lost purely as a result of the virus. I’m going to speak to Rishi Sunak about it.

The only rule I can find about Tier 4 is ‘CHRISTMAS IS BANNED!!!, SANTA SIGHTINGS; SHOOT TO KILL! REINDEER TO BE EATEN ONLY! Which doesn’t really tell me if I can play tennis in the morning, so I will. I can only do so much to stem the virus.

There’s a super irony, or perhaps a lesson to be learned, for anyone sufficiently arrogant or complacent to think that ‘humanity’ is some kind of evolutionary ‘pinnacle’, as if directed, dare I say, by God! Which is bollocks. Evolution simply means the more people reproduce the more copies they make and if environmentally viable, (sufficient food, stable and favourable conditions), the more successful they’ll be.

Well viruses are about a billion years older than Homo sapiens and still going strong, possibly even destroying us as they continue. Which would they be ironic in a different way because viruses can’t live without their ‘host’. Which in this case, is us. So if the virus took over, it would die out too. And then there’ll be nothing. Well, dogs, cats, cows, birds, fish and three-toed sloths. Which would be good for other, non-human viruses but we wouldn’t be here to appreciate it.

I only hope that Spurs are top of the league when that happens.

Happy last Saturday before what used to be Christmas.

A xxxx