Football

Got work on, haven't had time to place my tuppence on the table, as it's difficult to wade through the mass of articles saying
A) we need to win something or lose manager/players
B) the new stadium will break us and the move to Wembley means we're doomed to failure, as we haven't won there in forever
C) everyone below us will double down and throw money at our players/manager leaving is a wreck of a club who won't be able to fill our shiny new stadium...

I'm happy with second, progress is good, know that if a player leaves us at this stage it's only for the money, as we're in the champions league, been the team putting the eventual champions under pressure two seasons on the spin, and have a coach whose charismatic, coaches his players up, and wants to create a true team spirit and ethos...

On the reality that Chelsea fans seem to be taking more pleasure out of beating us to the league than actually winning the league, that shows how partisan and tribal london football is and why I wasn't as shocked as others that we lost to West Ham to hand the league to Chelsea. We've got eight derbies a year now, and each one will be a hard fought game. And as more players come to the premier league the london clubs are going to become harder to beat as foreign players chose london over Bournemouth or Newcastle or Burnley..

Anyway congratulations to Chelsea and glad that batshuayi got a run out and made a mark which can never be forgotten even if he never does anything else and is replaced by lukaku..