There are, currently, 75 outstanding lawsuits against Donald Trump. He may become the first President-Elect to have to go to court and defend himself and his companies. Will this affect Don’s Supreme Court choices? Will he choose judges who were kind to him? He’s unlikely to choose Judge Gonzalo Curiel from San Diego, who Trump called ‘a Mexican who won’t be able to judge fairly because of his hispanic heritage’. Even though the judge is from Indiana. Which may sound a bit ‘ethnic’, a little ‘tomahawk and teepee’, but is, at this time, part of the USA.

More importantly, Theresa May was the 12th world leader to receive a phone call from DT yesterday. After Saudi Arabia. Egypt. South Korea. Israel. Even fucking Ireland got a call before we did. Even Mexico. After all he’s said about that fine nation and its people.

But heh, I can’t be all doom and gloom. I would normally say; whatever happens, we’ll survive. But in Trump’s case that may not be so true. He does tend to act or speak first and think much, much later. If at all. But he’s the one we (a big ‘we’) have got and we can only see what happens in the fullness of time. Nuclear holocaust or not.

Meanwhile I was accused, just last night, of being rather ‘narrow’ in my view of football. Of being a little ‘one-sided’, blinkered, even ‘parochial’!!!! in the way I see the beautiful game. Basically, the gripe was that I never mention Crystal Palace. Well there you are, Malcolm, I done it.

The fact is that we (as in ‘we football fans’) all see all events of the game filtered through the very powerful lens of our own preferred team. I try to kerb this tendency as much as possible, to remain impartial and as objective as I can. But fail miserably. In fact, I fail very happily. I love that failure, its one of my best failures (of very very many; speak to Mel for the full list).

So when I read that ‘England really need Harry Kane, even though he’s not fully fit’, my national pride and love of my country lead me to think: THEY CAN FUCK OFF AND LEAVE HIM OUT SO HE CAN GET FIT FOR THE NEXT SPURS MATCH. PLAY SODDING ROONEY!

And every result I see is analysed for its impact on my team. I can’t help it. Its a disease. And alas, as poor Crystal Palace have as much effect on Spurs as does Ed Balls in Strictly, I ignore both. For which I would apologise, if I was a better person. But I’m not, I’m me. A Spurs fan.

If anyone else would like me to mention their third-rate, non-league, Sunday football, Hackney Marshes type team, just send £5 to the Tottenham Hotspur benevolent fund and I’ll happily slag them off.

Happy Friday

A xxxx