My day of gloom has been relieved to some extent by the knowledge that Tottenham's arch rivals, Arsenal, have been beaten 8-2 by Manchester United.
I suspect it will take the statisticians some time to discover when Arsenal last conceded 8 goals but I also suspect that this result may sound the death knell for Arsenal's long-standing manager, Arsene Wenger; no trophies for 6 or 7 years is one thing, to be beaten so horribly is quite another.
The worst part of today's results is that it's now abundantly clear that no one can compete with the financial muscle of the Manchester clubs and, possibly, Chelsea. That much of their money comes from foreign billionaires who've invested for purely personal reasons, seems to be ignored, as does the fact that football, as any sort of genuinely competitive sport, is being destroyed by the lust for success of both the owners and supporters.
Scottish football has been a joke for years, with Rangers and Celtic sharing the league title for decades, interrupted only rarely by others. The English league is now on the verge of joining them as being a pointless exercise for all but 3 or 4 clubs supported by Russian, or other, oligarchs; it's pathetic and ridiculous. It makes a mockery of our premier national sport.
Will, or can, anyone do anything about it ?
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