Ever been to Canadia? Where the Canadians live?? I have. Its a fantastic country. Well, the bit six miles north from the 2000 miles of US border; the ‘warm bit’, is great. The other 97% is a frozen wasteland fit only for seal cubs (to be clubbed), polar bears (to eat the seal cubs that avoid fur season) and the odd Eskimo/Inuit to ride around on his snowmobile. Huskeys are so ‘1965’, now its Kawasaki or nothing.

Two things strike you about Canada:

1. Its just like America
2. Its nothing like America.

They use the American phone system, they have zip codes, they drive the same cars as Americans (Mercedes, BMW, Nissan) and they eat way too much of the same excessive food as the Americans.

Yet they’re not American. They’re nicer. Sweeter. More… more.. more.. more simple. I don’t wish to imply any educational sub-normality, but if the mortar board fits…

And the wonder of the Canadian people starts from the top. Their presidents are never contentious, hateful, nasty bastards. Never morons from Texas, peanut farmers from Georgia or morally questionable Arkansarains. As long as they keep the French at bay Canadian presidents are liberal, open, warm-minded folk who support liberal democracies, hate the bad guys, side with the good and the noble and act in a manner that their electorate would want. They all have guns, but unlike their neighbours to the south, they don’t choose to use them. Not in a school-yardy, shopping-mally way.

Which makes it so inevitable and yet so depressing that it should suffer at the hands of terrorists. Shooting innocent soldiers; what does that gain?? Awful. LEAVE CANADA ALONE.

Spurs won a football match last night. Yes, thursday night football is all the rage after that waste of time and space on tuesday and wednesday with all that champions league rubbish. Thursday night; UEFA; proper football. And we played… err… some team from somewhere in the Med, and we thrashed them. Five-one. Brillaint. Lamella, wonder-goal. A ‘rabona’ of sheer class, inventiveness, skill and showing a complete and utter inability to even consider hitting a ball with his ‘wrong’ foot. As all ‘rabonas’ demonstrate. Harry Kane hat-trick; the new Suarez.

All is brilliant down the Lane once more.

Happy Friday

A xxxx