Ok, I’ll admit that when I wrote my ‘expected result’ for the Man City/Spurs game yesterday at 1-2, I thought I was being a tad optimistic. I didn’t really ‘believe’. I believed we had a good chance. I believed we could win the match if all went well. I believed that if we did it would keep us above the Arse. But I didn’t really really ‘believe’ that my team could win the league. Otherwise I’d have wanted Arsenal to win against Leicester because it would put us nearer the top. I was the footballing equivalent of an agnostic. Not a believer, not an unbeliever, just a fucking hedger.

But now I’ve seen the light. I’ve had a revelation. Of almost biblical proportions. The Lord hath spoken, and He did it in broken English with an Argentine accent.

I have but one rule. And that is: we woz never robbed. The offside goal that wasn’t. The penalty we didn’t get and should have. The sending off undeservedly. Its just so much ‘shit that happens’. And if it happens to Arsene Wenger (when he doesn’t win the game) then, like Jose Morinho, its part of some deep, dark refereeing conspiracy. So thus, when it happens in our favour, as it did yesterday, its just part of the game. Though as it happens, if you throw up an arm when blocking the ball, you run the risk of giving away a penalty. If the ref sees it that way. And he did. 0-1 to Tottenham.

But then it became 1-1 and I was studying the table again and adding various points to various teams and none of them looked particularly pleasing.

And so. In the 83rd minute, substitute Eric Lamela played a beautiful through ball to Christian Eriksen. Who kept his cool (I certainly didn’t, I was going ape-shit) and slotted home the winner. The Etihad erupted. Well, one little corner did, the ‘away fans’ bit. The rest went surprisingly quiet. Our couch erupted. My phone erupted.

And it was like a light had shone through the dark.

Of course we still had about 10 horrible minutes to endure, all the while seeing flashbacks of Arsenal’s 95th minute winning goal scored just a few hours previously. But survive we did.

Free points. Never felt so sweet.

So we’re still second. But now only by 2 little points.

And I believe.

Ecstatic Monday

A xxxx