Shit. 1-1 Van Persil.

Bugger. 95th minute dodgy goal. Bugger.

Realistically that's the end of any miracle finish in the top four. We have 10 games left in which it'd be nice not to let Liverpool (or anyone else) overtake and then be in the Europa thingy next year.

But in expectation management mode, even that isn't something that was on the radar in August. It's already a season to be satisfied with.

The same is true for e.g. Swansea and (although I hate to say it S********d).

But ... If someone had given you the Europa bollox at the start of the year you'd have bitten their hand off, right?

I'd have laughed in their face. We won at the Arsenal last year, which was nice. Carroll scored the goal (gone in Jan), from a pass from Nolan (gone in the summer) to Barton (gone in summer). Jose Enriques played a blinder (gone in summer). The manager was Chris Hughton, who was pulling it all together.

In the summer we signed Demba Ba, who I knew a little bit about from his time with Hoffenheim, on a free. This didn't at the time seem to compensate.

I'm happy that I was wrong.

Magnificent performance by Chelsea tonight.

Tua madre si da per niente!

Ooh. I hope Flogger doesn't speak Italian.

Tsk. Can't all be going through a bit of slump like spurs, can we

Google helped. Rude Bas***d. (Oink obviously, not your good self)

It's the difficulty in supporting a London team. There are so many local rivals you have to vilify.

It'd wear me out, I've only got S*******d to hate and that's tiring enough.

Brentford are ok, nowt against them.

Chelski ain't a football team they're a circus act.

and Chas n Dave are crap

My nan used to go to bingo with Chas' mum.

That's nowt. I used to know Eric Burden's mum when he played for the animals.