Well its been a rather dull January transfer window in the footballing world. Though many are heeding past mistakes and the received wisdom that January transfers tend to be panic buys which end in misery. Except for Spurs, who manage to achieve the same end in August.

After our ‘summer spree’, spending over £100million on players with ‘mixed results’, Spurs have been very quiet. In fact we’ve only done one bit of business which is selling Jermaine Defoe. One of our only 3 strikers, though he’s not moving to Toronto until the summer. By which time we’ll have replaced him with… er… with someone very very good. Even better than Soldado or Adebayor. Probably.

The only ‘big name move’ has been Juan Mata’s departure from Chelsea to Manchester United. So little Juan has not moved for immediate glory then.

Chelsea’s player of the year for the last two seasons was suddenly superfluous to requirements at Stamford Bridge, where Oscar and Hazard are playing so well that there’s simply no room for the wee Spaniard who most managers would chew their own legs off to have in their squad. I personally have teeth marks in both my thighs at this very moment but sadly it didn’t work. Just hurt a lot. And gave me a stiff neck.

Eden Hazard has now said ‘he can be like Messi and Ronaldo’ and will be ‘in that league’. So no false modesty from the Belgian dwarf then.

West Ham are trying to sign Dani Osvaldo from Southampton. He’s currently suspended for fighting with his own team mate. So will be a perfect fit in the Sam Allardyce/West Ham style. They like ’em tough. The hammers are also trying to sign Ross McCormack from Leeds. Don’t know the man, never even heard of him, but if he plays for Leeds he must be another thug. The Yorkshire club have a history and a culture and would never field a player who couldn’t ‘handle himself’, in that Vinnie Jones kind of way.

Because teams have to have a plan, a model, and West Ham’s, in the absence of anything resembling ‘football’, are trying ‘violence’ as the way forward.

Similarly, Arsenal, true to their model, are trying to sign Tom Daley and Lily Savage.

But you must be careful of what ‘model’ you choose and project. Because UKIP leader Nigel Farrage is complaining that ‘the wrong kind of people are in UKIP’. How strange that a party based on the reactionary insecurities and innate xenophobic tendencies of highly strung people should end up with a bunch of screaming nutters as their representatives. The bible-bashers, the wrath of Godders, the neo-nazis, rivers of blooders and other strange and exotic misfits are precisely who you’d expect with that sorry bunch of scaremongers.

So vote for Spurs today,

Happy tuesday

A xxxx