Ooh, I did enjoy that

I haven't deployed the word perspicacity in a long time, and it felt good when I did. So good I'm going to do it again. Oh, I already did.

Any ho, Martin Jol's gone. This chap the spurs board has been assiduously and openly courting since at least the 'summer', isn't yet quite ready to step into the breach, but the box has been built (the last nail was driven in, it now emerges by the defeat to Newcastle) so Jol's been shipped out.

Ramos will come to the Lane with a very good reputation, but Spurs are and always have been a team with ideas way above their station - by which I mean the sum total of their resources. Even in London they've only ever intermittently been stronger than third best, and the Hammers have resources Spurs will always lack which make them potential contenders for that third place at a time when first and second are a lock out by Arsenal and Chelsea.

Some people thought the earth would stop spinning if Jose ever left Chelsea. Drogba's staying. The earth still turns on its axis. Jol is already being laid out for this evening's fish 'n' chip wrap.

Hope he lands a good job some time soon.