I had an early meeting this morning and didn’t switch on my phone until I was through. When I did, I found 8 messages waiting for me. I don’t have any Spud loving friends who would call me, let alone leave a message, but I guessed it would be Dean, my Liverpool supporting friend.

You see, the past few weeks have been depressing for him and I haven’t made it easier at all. It’s not just the fact that I keep asking Dean if I could help organize flights for him for next season as they visit second rate European outposts for the Europa league.

I keep reminding him how perilous Liverpool’s financial situation is and that soon, he might be thinking about changing allegiance to the red part of London.

His messages were damn funny I have to say, as some of my colleagues who watched me listening to the messages think I’ve lost the plot. Apparently, the reason he’s calling me is because he happened to be passing around the N17 post code area early this morning.

He bumped into a few touts selling some DVDs and he couldn’t resist buying me a birthday present, even though my birthday was a couple of months ago. Yup! He insists it’s the DVD of last night’s game already on sale by the Tottenham historical society.

I’ll believe it when I see him over the weekend.

As for last night’s game, I had a really bad feeling when Vermaelen was stretchered off. In some way, I’ve become more anxious about our propensity to collect injuries as opposed to the risk we have of losing games.

I’m still trying to process whether I’m disappointed that we lost yesterday’s game, or whether I’m disappointed because it was the Tiny Tots we lost to. The reality of the matter is that the loss last night made it very difficult for us to come back from the dead again.

There’s not enough games left in the calendar for another Lazarus type resurrection. I still continue to hold high hopes because there’s still a mathematical possibility that Arsenal can win the title.

Of course, Chelsea will have to lose 2 games, or draw 3 of them and on top of that, we either catch up with their goal difference or hope that they mess up even more.

But the reality is that it would take an enormous miracle for the Chavs to commit suicide in that fashion. I wouldn’t put it past them though so I’ll still continue to keep the faith.

I still fully expect the team to play well and fight for the remainder of the season for the simple reason that I don’t like the feeling of losing any game. Soon, our focus will move to consolidating the position that we’re in and building on what we’ve managed to achieve this season.

I must say though, Robin Van Persie was great last night. It’s a shame we couldn’t bring him on earlier as that would have probably been a Gallas-esque risk.

Despite being out for so long, the Dutch ace made the hairs at the back of my neck stand up. You really can’t legislate for the heroics of Heurelho Gomes and if it wasn’t for the Spurs keeper, Van Persie would have had a mesmerizing comeback.

I’m just pissed off it’s the Dutch national team who will get to enjoy his form and we have to wait until the start of the new season. My sense is that if it’ll make Robin happy to play well in the world cup, then he’ll be a better player for Arsenal next season; it’s just revolting that the Dutch FA threw him to the Italian wolves only to have him back just in time.

Meanwhile, we need to tighten our seat belts, hold on to our hats and jump into the bumpy ride of the doom and gloom variety. The forked tongues are being sharpened and we have to prepare to fight the good fight for the sake of the Arsenal.

I’ll be looking forward to my DVD this weekend. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to try and figure out which hurts me more; the fact that we lost to that lot up the road or the fact that we’re about to dust ourselves off and start again.

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