Well, it had to happen at some stage, I suppose. Spurs won a game. And not just won in any normal sense, but really, really WON! Beating Red Star Belgrade 5-nil at the Tottenham stadium. But its not really about beating out-classed Serbians, given a place in the top European competition on the grounds that they’re European and have to be given one, even though their league is not a particularly high standard (name one other Serbian top league team and you win an all expenses paid trip to Kragujevac for the whole family) and they’re not very good. But we’re only allowed to play the team that comes along for the game, that’s the rule. And the path to Champions League glory is paved with ‘banana skin’ teams which screw you over. Or which you allow to screw you over, like we did at Olympiakos.

But football is a game played in the players heads. Which is the tragedy really because most of these guys have 98% of their life gifts in their feet and the rest, normally, in their genitals. Not much happens on a more cerebral level. And what’s been missing at Spurs this season has been the spirit, the joy of the game, the love of the group, the togetherness, the unity. Their very mojo. And last night it appeared to return. All of it. And maybe that’s just they were allowed to play by inferior opposition and the stars were aligned in our favour, or maybe the malevolence in the dressing room has finally been dispelled. I don’t know. Sunday at Liverpool may prove to be a little more testing. But you never know. Buoyed in spirit by last night, anything can happen. Can’t it?

And Liverpool are due a slump which actually appeared to start last week at Old Trafford. Even though they want to end their ‘30 years of pain’ in which their poor fans with a tragically over-inflated sense of entitlement, have had to endure not winning the league!!! I mean: Liverpool! Not allowed to win the league for 30 years!!! We really need a public inquiry. I wonder how fans of Leyton Orient, Scunthorpe United and Crystal Palace feel when they hear about ‘30 years of pain’.

Yesterday was in fact ‘Super Tuesday’, the day Spurs won again and the day ‘Brexit got done’!!! Yep, its over now. Parliament approved Boris’s deal. Hooray!! So we’re ‘outa there’!!! Hooray. But then voted against it happening in the next 3 days, so it may just drag on for another few… days, months, years, decades, millennia. But it WILL get done. At some point. Just as long as it takes Jeremy Corbyn (even with his new glasses) to read through the 100 odd pages of joined up writing and having the long words explained to him and then object to every single point raised and insert the phrase ‘workers’ rights’ into every sentence. Or we might have a general election first. So yes, ‘we are leaving’, but when, exactly, is still, kind of, ‘out there’.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx