What happened to the Morinho honeymoon? When Jose came to Spurs and we won and we looked pretty and confident and dangerous and swept aside all who came before us… for at least 2 weeks? And we were promised trophies in the first couple of years (before it all turns to shit). And then it ended. So we couldn’t ‘even’ beat Liverpool. Though less of a surprise after not being able to beat Middlesboro’. No slur on ‘boro. Bloody impoverished, lower-league, northern no-hopers. That’s more a slur. Sorry Ali.

And coming at the end of THIS week as well, its just NOT FAIR. First we had the killing of Suleimani, then the retaliation by Iran, then the ‘accidental’ blowing up of a passenger plane from Ukraine, THEN Harry & Meg destabilising my entire life, and now THIS!!!

But we must draw what positives we can from football, mainly because its far less boring than worrying about whether Harry will have to buy his own stab vest when he’s in Canadia. And the positives we can draw from losing to Liverpool yesterday are these:

1. We’re not very good. Hence can only get better??? That’s not so much a ‘positive’ as a very optimistic form of hyperbole that only the truly deluded could propose. In the absence of a ‘proper’ striker we will struggle. Harry’s injury is a bad one and although we have ‘goals all over the field’, those goals still managed to total a big zero yesterday.

2. Its very easy to be find positives in Liverpool, so I’m really not going to bother. Fuck ‘em. The only satisfaction I can get is knowing that after their glorious victory they have to go back to Liverpool.

3. VAR started life as ‘shit’ and has now descended into unreliable and inconsistent shit. West Ham had a goal disallowed on Friday because the ball just touched the arm of the goal creator. Yesterday the ball hit Jordan Henderson’s arm on the way to Firmino’s goal and it was deemed fine. WTF??? Not that we lost because of VAR, we lost because we squandered so many chances on goal in the second half after playing the entire first half in a state of collective fear of the opposition.

4. Arsenal didn’t win. And although that doesn’t sound like much of a positive, it really is. Just from a nasty, spiteful viewpoint.

So there we are. Positives. Loads. Everything to play for.

Wake me up next season.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx