The usual stuff is being trotted out by commentators and fans ahead of tonight's semi-final against Arsenal. It's a sad fact that to be a Spurs fan is to be obsessed by Arsenal, while Arsenal fans can focus smugly on such trivialities as title run-ins and Champions League knock-out matches, only pausing to turn a disdainful gaze on their local rivals when these occasional derbies crop up. Then it's all "Spurs are poorly run... fans have unrealistic expectations... litany of failure..." The patronising ones are the worst.
Arsenal made an inspired appointment when they got Wenger. I'm sure they've made other good choices as well, but he changed the culture of the club to the extent that they are now a byword for beautiful football. The frustrating this is that he's just the sort of person I should and would admire, but for the fact that he manages Arsenal: one of the reasons why football fandom is fundamentally stupid.
Anyway, the match before Christmas was entertaining and it would have been entirely justified if Spurs had won it. We take heart from that. In other news, Hillary Clinton has made a spectacular comeback - turning around the poll results from only 24 hours ago. Seems to have been driven by high female turnout and low youth turnout. Nationally it will be a tougher job for Barack to reverse this phenomenon than for Hillary to exploit it, but the whole thing is incredibly difficult to call. If I were American, right now I genuinely wouldn't know who to vote for. But I'd lean toward Barack.
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