I fear that with Chelsea’s win last night the title ‘race’ (if it was ever ‘on’) is over. Spurs are second in line, currently, and remain 10 points behind the Blues. And logically, who, do you reckon, are more likely to have a mini-collapse? A bad run? A blackout? Nervous breakdown or total meltdown? Who is more likely to ‘do a Spurs’ than Spurs? I’m hoping that we can just continue our good form without such an event; that in itself would show massive promise. But Chelsea, much as I hate them, simply have to be admired.

They beat West Ham last night. That’s not hard. But its the way they do things. The addition of N’golo Kante to their horrible ranks this year was a massive piece of an almost complete puzzle. The rest of which simply fell back into place when Morinho left. Hazard become Hazard once more, Costa returned to being Costa and Pedro has become a revelation, being much more than the Pedro he was before. I suppose we must credit the manager, and so I reluctantly will do so.

Arsenal play Bayern tonight in the Champions League. They need to overturn a 5-1 deficit. Not hard to do. Just score 4 against one of Europe’s top 3 teams and concede none. But to do that Arsenal would need to be at their best. And they are currently approximately 72,782 miles from that place. Ozil’s injured but that’s no big loss because he tends to disappear in big games anyway. Sanchez is, mentally if not physically, ‘gone’. He wants out and is playing like it. The anti-Wenger movement in the fan-base has risen from about half to approximately three-quarters and all looks glum in Emirate-land.

Meanwhile at the ‘Theatre of Not Going as Well as We’d Hoped’ all hell broke loose. Bournemouth defender Tyrone Mings was attacked by Zlatan Ibrohimovic. The second assault was a blatant elbow in the face when they went up for a high ball. The first attack was Zlat hitting Tyrone really hard on the studs with his face. Dirty faaarkin’ Swede. Get a three year ban, by which time he’ll be another pensioner. Man United will be the new Leyton Orient and Morinho will be managing the tea and coffee supplies in a padded institution. Subject to medication.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx