Irons in the pink

It may be a rag of less worth and quality than Izal grease proof toilet paper but the Daily Mail pulled it off satisfyingly today with its April fools gag. It may upset a few hardened irons but the pink frills and Ann Summers logo look the part. I think they should consider embracing it. West Sham have of course blown it big time this season but the colour would soften the bummer of relegation. It may mean their new 2nd division/ championship rivals actually warm to them. They've been unpopular too long so I'm sure there's plenty of East London boys looking to widen the circle of their friends. Upton Park could be the New Camp. OK, enough of that already...here's the shirt:

xmas footie

5 clean sheets, 4 wins, a good draw at Fulham...when's it all going to go wrong? Oh yeah, we've got Liverpool on Sunday. We always lose when it's 'our best chance in decades of getting a result'.

The 4-0 win over Peterborough was unusual. There was no tension at all. It never seemed like we'd blow it. Strangely though that lack of edge meant that something was lost. Credit to their fans though; they were great. Much more satisfying was the win over Wet Spam. Again they weren't very good but they could have got something from the game and that tension makes the relief and the goal celebrations that much more sweet. Their fans, in contrast, were nasty and humourless.

we are top of the league!

Warning: overuse of exclamation marks may follow!!

Leapfrogging Arsenal!
Beating Hammers on their patch in their cup final!
3 wins out of 3!
Come from behind!
Defoe and Lennon on fire!
5 goals away from home on Wednesday!
Beat Liverpool first game!

So it won't last but I needed to get my gloating off my chest. This is literally the best start Spurs have had in my life! Last time we won three on the trot at start of season was 1960!

vertigo

Tension gone, the win at the Lane yesterday against a surpirsingly rubbish West Ham means that all of a sudden we can all breathe that sigh of relief that we've been waiting to let out for months. I'm grateful it didn't have to wait till May. I've been all doom and gloom this season so the boy, my girl and my Spurs buddies will all be grateful too. After Blackburn last Saturday it looked as if we might go on a bit of a dodgy run but no; London clubs no longer have some kind of hoo doo. We lost only to Fulham this season and, frankly, they're such a fluffy and likeable club that I don't begrudge them the points at all (with or without Andy 'I'm not nearly as good as I think I am and I dive a lot' Johnson).

Now we can only look up. We're 8th. What a stupid, beguiling game this is. COYS.

Prediction

So much for my fighting talk about Spurs finishing above West Ham. These last two results have probably put paid to that. However, no-one can take away the thrashing we dished out a few weeks ago. Ha.

West Sham

Credit where credit's due: West Ham got stuffed at White Hart Lane on Sunday but even at 2-0 they were giving it a bit of a go with the support. God knows how they find the enthusiasm after seeing (at that stage ) ten goals go in without reply but they're cheeky cockney chappies for sure and mustered it from somewhere. " You're shit cos it's not 4-0" they sang. How they must have laughed when it was 4-0! By a process of deduction I ascertain that they now acknowledge we are the opposite of shit!

It makes me laugh how much a lot of their supporters despise Tottenham and in return all they get is a collective "ahh, that's sweet" and a shrug of the shoulders. The bit of me that entertains schadenfreude will enjoy their collapsing season and I hereby predict that the mighty Spurs will make up the points gap with them and finish just in the top half of the table.

Of all the teams to get relegated

Of course we needed the points, of course we're likely to struggle on Thursday to Blackburn (who still have an outside chance of qualifying for Europe), of course Man City won't be the pushover they should be but...I can't help feeling discomfort about Charlton's relegation and the fact that Spurs sealed it with their 2-0 win at the Valley last night. I know there was one incident last year but, apart from that, they are such a friendly, innocuous, happy-go-lucky bunch that it just seems a darned shame. I lived in the Woolwich area for a couple of years and I still don't understand where all these nice people at the Valley come from; they certainly don't frequent the shops in Woolwich. That's reserved for women in toweling jumpsuits f-ing and blinding at their scrawny offspring.

It looks as if West Sham are going to scrape survival at Wigan's expense- the kind hearted me thinks maybe this is a good thing for London football seeing as two london clubs are already set for the drop. The Spurs fan in me thinks: 'spawny gits.' I also think it's a shame for us that we can't now cream off their top players. Tevez is definitely ugly enough to wear the lillywhite shirt. Having said all that, apart from the last couple of seasons, Spurs have struggled for years agaisnt London opposition so maybe it's a good thing. However, we did the double over both the Shammers and Charlton this season, amassing 13 goals in the process, so I'm in two minds about that too. Frankly, if there's an omniscient, free thinking, benevolent football overseer in the sky I hope s/he hears my wish that next year Chelsea, man Yoo and, of course, A****l all go down. there'd be dancing in the streets north and south if that happened.


the goals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-n0yVNjPrQ
report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6602895.stm