Its a 3-horse race.

The fight for the Premier League. 3 teams left with a proverbial ‘shout’. And one of them, lets’ be fair/honest/realistic, is possibly suffering from equine flu, in the wold of stretched metaphors.

But even limping along, those mighty Spurs keep hitting the net when it counts, keep seeing off opposing teams, keep those 3-pointers ker-ching!-ing away. And its not always the prettiest, and its not always, for Spurs fans at least, totally comfortable viewing. But football’s not about comfortable and its not about showing off (see ‘Manchester City’ below), its about WINNING. And that’s precisely what we did against Leicester yesterday. We winned. In part because Christian Eriksen is a magician. In part because even when Son is below par he’s still much much better than virtually everyone else. And in part because Jamie Vardy doesn’t just look ugly; sometimes he plays ugly too. And the arrogance with which he DEMANDED to take his team’s penalty, which he missed, was the only thing of beauty attributable to his name.

But if its a 3-horse race, there must be 2 others involved. You do the maffs.

Liverpool won in seemingly easy manner at Bournemouth. As they should. Though Bournemouth did thrash Chelsea the other week, which I would say is ‘not an easy thing to do’, but again, see: ‘Manchester City’ below. And the Scousers were redeemed from their recent ‘lapse’ in their form.

And then the other horse. The pure-bloodied, Arabian thoroughbred that are/is Manchester City. Because they didn’t just beat Chelsea yesterday. And those west Londoners do run both hot and cold this term. But City annihilated them. Humiliated them. Extinguished them. Put them to the sword. I mean, 6-nil. That’s something against a ‘top 6’ team.

Because it was a statement by City. Oddly the statement wasn’t aimed at Chelsea. They were merely the messengers. The message was for Liverpool. And I hope to think, to Spurs to. And the message was: THIS IS HOW FUCKING GOOD WE ARE.

Well BRING IT ON!!! That’s what we say. Us Spurs fans. Though not too loudly, in case someone hears it.

It was scary to watch.

Happy Monday

A xxxx