He did it. Mo. Our Mo. Not Mo the Uber driver, (one of 42,539 ‘Mos’ they have on their books), nor Mo the cook in the take-away, Mo the Imam nor Mo the builder’s mate. No. Mo. Mo Farah. Best runner in the world. Since that Finnish dude back before I was born. Ok, the 70s, so ‘before I was re-born’ (we all did that in the 70s). Mo won the 5000 metres, to go with the 10000 metres he won last week, and the same two he won at the London Games. Making this the most successful games since the last one. Brilliant. Come on team GB!!!

So now, after tonight, we can forget about athletics for another 4 years. Just as ‘fantastic!!!’ starts to give way to ‘overload’, just three medals short of ‘enough, already’. Goodbye to hockey, farewell to gymnastics, adieu Taikwando. But…

The fucking football’s back!

And, of course, because its only just back, Arsenal are down at the dirty end of the league. The dodgy end. Where Losers hang out. Because they always start seasons poorly. They’ve won just one first-game-of-the-season since the premiership began 26 years ago. Useless fuckers. Sadly, and inevitably, they’ll be top of the league by November and back to their never-changing 4th for May. I don’t blame Wenger (not sure there’s actually anything to blame him for; entry to the Champions League every single season of his tenure) though his reluctance to spend money on a new striker might be minor cause for concern when your team enjoyed 89% of possession and had 243 attempts on goal and still manage to draw 0-0.

Whereas at Spurs, the winning ways have returned. Ok, its was (apparently) a bit of a struggle. It was not exactly ‘spectacular’, but free points is free points. And that’s all that counts. For now, at least.

Liverpool are being pursued. By the Chinese. They want to buy the Scousers. Not to, sort of, airlift Anfield to Shanghai, but to become the new owners. Which isn’t much of a loss to the city of Liverpool as the club is currently owned by Americans anyway. The difference being that the consortium currently in possession is a private bunch of investors. Whereas this is China. Like, the nation. The funding will come from the state financial institution, thus meaning that Liverpool would be subject to the same laws as the rest of China. Kick out the Bhuddists, death and torture to the opposition and shit-loads of rice. They’ve only offered £800million so I’m not sure it’ll all go through. The Yanks paid 300mil a few years back so not much of a profit on the investment there then.

You’ll play Liverpool and an hour later you’ll want to play them again.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx