I would be totally remiss if I failed to mention Spurs’ comprehensive 4-1 thumping of Bolton today. I can’t stand Bolton, I think they play crappy long-ball footie, and they’ve got the most annoying manager outside Man Ure, Chelski, and the Arse. 3-0 up inside the first twenty-some minutes? Playing with only 10 men for the last hour? Only conceding on a somewhat dodgy penalty? I’ll take it!
Overstatement of the weekend #1: Spurs’ win following their mid-week victory over Everton “put them right back in the hunt for a UEFA Cup spot.”
Overstatement of the weekend #2: Charlton’s 4-0 win over West Ham means “the relegation race is wide open.”
No, to both of these. Both teams need to keep winning and hope that the teams dropping likes stones recently (i.e. Pompey and Wigan) continue to do so. Charlton have been consistently bad this year and Spurs have spluttered, being fantastic one week to being dreadful the next. Basically, these teams have to hope that their character completely changes in the last 10 games, which is unlikely. Not impossible, but it’s a bit of hyperbole to say this weekend’s results have changed everything.
Chelski 2, Arse 1 in the Carling Cup final. The better of two evils? For me, yes.
For the record, winter has officially worn out its welcome. Shoveling slush is far less fun (and far heavier) than pushing around that fluffy white stuff. The plow came by and deposited what could only be described as snow boulders about hip-high in the mouth of the driveway. These had to be methodically broken into smaller chunks and then lifted (umph) out of the way instead of just pushed around, like one might do to snow.
Taxes are next on my agenda. Yuck.
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The universe celebrates with you for Spurs’ humiliation of Bolton.
…being fantastic one week to being dreadful the next.
Who knows, maybe Tottenham and Newcastle will both have better EPL seasons next year, because they seem likely not to be playing in Europe then.
Yeah, this time the storm curled around to do “lake enhanced snow” from Milwaukee to Madison. We got slush, some snow and a couple hours of power outage.
Dr. Phil
It’s brutal here, Phil! Yes, yes, I know it’s wrong for an upper Midwest boy to complain first about the cold and then the snow but it’s the fact that both have carried on far too long–first too many days of just booger-freezing cold, now four successive days of wet, heavy snowfall?
A little cold, a little snow, a little more cold, some more snow…not so bad. But this “First I’m gonna to smack you down with a prolonged cold snap, then I’m gonna drop a boatload of snow, slush, and rain so you get soaked through and bone cold” stuff has got to stop!