Kyoto used to be the capital of Japan. Until I arrived, then they moved it. Actually it was ages ago. But they couldn’t move the buildings. So they left them here. Mainly, shrines and temples. The former Shinto, the latter Buddhist. They swing both ways here. Shinto is great, they have no God, no prayers, no hymns, no bible, no nothing. Just great shrines everywhere. And think there are actually 8 million gods, cos everyone and everything is a fucking god. My words, my interpretation. And they never skimped in the religious department. In Tokyo they have them, obviously. But in Kyoto, because of its ancientness and proximity to the Emperor, when he lived here, there is literally one on every street corner. Which makes it quite impressively beautiful. But its not the only thing you find on every street corner.

You also find ten of these. Really odd little electric cars. Cubic things with no style (who cares?) no streamlining (who needs it at 14 mph?) and no pollution. Funny that I’ve never seen any in the UK, which is probably where Honda and Toyota and Nissan build them (along with Hyundai and Kia and…) because we get a lot of Japanese steel on our roads. But apparently not all of it.

They all make versions of this same concept. Small, four seat, four door, cube shaped, electric. Most are black, some like this one, others in fab retro 2-tone colours, like light green and cream. They are City cars, I presume, and they come along in packs of 15. You wouldn’t wanna drive to Manchester in one (not from here anyway) but for town they’re just so cute and silly I might bring one home. Just as check-in luggage.

Then fucking disaster.

Spurs went to Bournemouth (they don’t play football in Kyoto, only Sumo and sushi), had 2 players sent off, both of whom will now miss next week’s final game of the entire season, and lost 1-nil in the dying seconds of the match. We haven’t had a man sent off all season and then this. Playing with 9 men is beyond difficult. It enters the realms of the ridiculously stupid, moronic, dumb, pathetic and insane. So now, unless Chelsea and Arsenal fuck up again today, both of them, we are in a ‘must win’ situation next weekend, the Premier League’s Finale, against currently unbeatable Everton. With 14 of our players injured and the rest banned. Not even mentioning a little game beforehand against Ajax. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK!!!!!

It was to be a happy Sunday, but…

A xxxx