Good morning, everyone. Your beleaguered hoddler-in-chief is back after a week away from the blog. What’d I miss? Also, a big thanks to menno and mattyflatt for steering the ship in my absence.
I’m still trying to get caught up on things here (“things” being sleep), so today’s hoddle is just going to be a short one. I’ll get a proper one sorted for Tuesday.
For those of you curious: No, I have not had a chance to update the track of the day spotify playlist in the last two weeks, although it’s still something I’m hoping to accomplish by the end of the year. Yes, Nickelback will be in it.
I’m about to go to sleep, but I’ll just give a couple of thoughts after today’s match:
I didn’t enjoy it very much.
I didn’t watch most of it, actually. I went for my run at 9am and I got back just in time to watch the second Villa goal. So from what I did see, I wasn’t impressed.
I took a 30-minute nap afterwards before walking to the grocery store.
On my walk to the grocery store I saw how the leaves are falling in Washington and turning colour. And that cheered me up. It was warmer today than I’d have liked it to be, but it is feeling like autumn.
I took another nap later this afternoon.
Welp, that’s it for today. I’ll see you all for Tuesday’s hoddle, but in the meantime I’d like to share some words of wisdom from the Carty Free Managing Editor:
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Fitzie’s track of the day: Calling Doctor Love, by KISS
And now for your links:
The Athletic ($$): “Tottenham 1 Aston Villa 2: What went wrong after flying start? Did Danso prove a point?”
Football London: “Every word Thomas Frank said on Cristian Romero injury, Tottenham loss and sub incident”
Matt Law: “Mathys Tel interview: Not making Champions League squad made me mad, but I understand why”