Last night, an inauspicious Tuesday in January, was elevated, hopefully temporarily, to its new status of ‘the best day of my life!!!!’

Because this is what it has come to. For me. And possibly many other Spurs fans. Arsenal didn’t even have to lose to have me leaping around the lounge in joy and excitement (didn’t actually leave the couch; it was metaphorical ‘leaping’), the nil-nil draw with Newcastle was sufficient to once more believe in god. Ok, maybe not a ‘proper god’, he’d have Spurs at the top of the league, but some lesser type god, like the Greeks had. Possibly why the Greeks are no longer have a serious football league. I make no judgments and refuse to make religious observations. Other than about Catholics, obviously.

The match was simply… dull. But dull has a place. And that place was apparently the Emirates as Newcastle simply blunted the Gunners for 95 minutes (though Arteta wanted MORE!!!!, much much more for all that time-wasting). Newcastle had a plan, and it worked. The plan, brilliantly devised by Eddie Howe, was ‘STOP THEM!’ And they did. They pressed the Arsenal players, they ganged up on them, they blocked them and, if none of that worked, they just hacked them down. Always good to see. The Arsenal players, to their immense credit, fell about writhing on the floor at the merest touch and deserve the collective Oscar for ‘tossers in torment’, after the type of acting one is rarely privileged to see outside a year 3 pantomime. Yet they chose to mock any Newcastle player who went down either genuinely or to waste time. Which Newcastle started at minute 1.

As the match progressed, Mikel Arteta got proportionately frustrated, angry and obnoxious. But heh, that’s his job. One of them. The other is winning matches but that didn’t go quite as well as the ranting and shit.

So that it. Arsenal ‘dropped 2 points’. The first two they’ve dropped at home this season, and all the better for it. Unfortunately, they’re still 8 points clear at the top of the table. For now!!! Until Spurs start our ‘run’. Any minute now. Just you wait and see!

(Not very) Happy Wednesday

A xxxx