Let’s talk football. I wanna talk about football. I love football. It’s the best game ever, its the finest… thing, the most wonderful… other thing… I just love it!

So no prizes for guessing that Spurs won yesterday. In one of the most delightful performances (never saw a moment) and totally dominant play (not even a hilight), the magnificent Tottenham Hotspurs bested the Albion and Hoves from Brighton.

But what I actually realised was that this is actually still quite a new season. So every result can have quite a big impact on the league table. Burnley won yesterday and lifted from bottom place up to 16th. Spurs went from where they were to a little better. Ok, we overtook Bournemouth but that’s something. If we can overtake Watford too we’ll be sitting pretty.

Arsenal don’t count.

Chelsea may go back to top place today if they can beat West Ham. If. Not a big ‘if’, just a regular one. As Chelsea look positively fearsome and West Ham… don’t. In fact they look shitty, last week’s victory notwithstanding. I accept my view may be somewhat prejudicial because when I start ranking teams more horrible than Chelsea on any level, that team has a problem.

But the odd thing is; teams I really don’t like still do well sometimes. I just don’t understand it. Though I don’t mind Liverpool, ‘we’ have a history going back to Bill Shankley and the glory days, that doesn’t mean I want them to suddenly look invincible. We beat them soundly at Wembley last year. Doubtful we will this year. When you start banking on ‘its a funny old game’ and ‘anything can happen in football’, you know you’re in trouble. Liverpool saw off Southampton yesterday without really trying. Just as Manchester City annihilated Cardiff exactly as the script was written.

Because ‘big teams’ should beat ‘little teams’. How could it ever not be the case? That’s why they call them ‘big teams’. Because calling them ‘stinking rich, over funded, tax laundered, Billionaire play thing vanity projects’ is rude.

So where does that leave Manchester United? In the grand scheme of bigs and littles? They are the stinkingest of stinking rich (in terms of turnover and world following, rather than backing which has always been a bit strange under Glazer rule) and yet couldn’t beat lowliest Wolves at Old Trafford yesterday. Personally I blame Morinho. Mainly because I love to see him squirm and live for his melt-downs.

In the paper they asked whether at Spurs it was possible, having acquired no new blood in the transfer market, to expect the same 25 players to play basically at the absolute limits of their capabilities, for yet another year. With no drops in form (Harry Kane) or disputes (Toby Aldereiwield) or injuries (Hugo Lloris). And I think the answer is an emphatic ‘YES!’ Based on hope, unrestrained optimism and blind faith. Ok, and a modicum of stupidity. Because we won.

Happy shitty, rainy, dark, wet, lousy, no-tennis Sunday

A xxxx