Oh Andy Burnham, the hugely problematic relationship between principle and realpolitik in post-cash Britain. We are going all in on football chat these days, aren’t we? Football populism, football blokeyness, the stylings of the football everyman.
That was certainly the horse the prime minister rode in on a few months ago. And right now it’s a horse that’s still very much snorting around the cabinet room, and threatening to run right over the top of him. Previous governments have been thrown into early-term crisis by things such as war, sex scandals and economic meltdown.
But never, and historians will have time to pore over this in the coming decades, by the urgent need to overpay for Jack Grealish. There are ramifications here. And the ramifications, well, Clive, they’re massive.
In this case the man on the radio was discussing the United Kingdom’s multilayered geopolitical meltdown through the prism of whether this means Spurs are less or more likely to get relegated. And to be fair there are very few global events that can’t be better understood through a Spurs-in-crisis lens. The Arctic ice shelf is about to collapse.
Chinese military scientists have worked out how to land three successive nuclear warheads in exactly the same spot, thereby causing not only standard mass destruction but disturbing the Earth’s crust at a tectonic level. But break it down for me. Does this mean Spurs are more likely to be relegated or less likely to be relegated?
People eating pine cones in bunkers. But is there any upside here for Roberto De Zerbi’s troubled north London tenure? Football has always loved a ramification, loved it when things are huge and sweeping, parcelled out in scrolling headlines and graphics that go whoosh.
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