Some Thursday Thoughts

'Glory, glory, Tottenham Hotspur...'  Well, that's one thing lazy media pundits will have to stop using to beat us Spurs fans with - those seventeen trophy-less years are over.  It's always puzzled me, though, as to why they fixated on that fact as if it somehow was unique amongst Premier League clubs: a badge of dishonour to be worn in shame.  After all, Crystal Palace's FA Cup win this season marked their only trophy ever.  Not to mention their League cup victory being Newcastle's first trophy for seventy odd years.  But I guess that they simply aren't Spurs, who, for a dew seasons, had the audacity to consistently achieve Champions League qualification at the expense of one of the press' beloved 'top four' clubs.  As for the furore amongst ex-players, managers and partisan sports journalists as to the fact that winning the Europa League qualifies Spurs for next season's Champions League despite sitting near the bottom of the league after a disastrous, injury ravaged campaign, well, I've got news for them, the Europa League and the prize it gives the winner isn't decided on domestic league results, but rather on performances in the actual competition itself.  Despite sitting low in the Premier League table, Spurs and Manchester United, regardless of what those pundits think, earned the right to contest the Europa League final by being the most consistent clubs in that competition.

But Spurs winning the Europa League hasn't been the only thing going on this week - we've had yet more of the 'Madness of King Trump' to contend with, of course.  Namely, that weird and disturbing Oval Office meeting with the South African president.  I don't know about anyone else, but if I was in a meeting with the Tangerine Twat and he asked for the lights to lowered, before whipping out a remote, switching on the TV and announcing that he was going to show a video, then I'd fear the worst: that I was about to be subjected to his favourite porn movie.  Probably, bearing in mind the company, one involving some white-on-black action.  A white guy doing a black girl of course, as the other way round would doubtless be considered 'unnatural' by any self-respecting MAGA moron.  An inversion of the natural order - as they see it - of white male dominance.  Doubtless, at some point in this video, the girl would get 'grabbed by the pussy'.  Thankfully, Cyril Ramaphosa was spared this and instead subjected to one of Trump's trademark rambling discourses, this time on a supposed 'genocide' of white farmers in South Africa.  A 'genocide' that most sane people agree doesn't exist.  A pity Trump hasn't seen fit to subject Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to a rambling discourse on the very real genocide unfolding in Gaza...