Not long now

After Newcastle United's 3-1 Win over Tottenham, it could be lillies for the lilywhites, as the Spurs' manager is Jol-axed, no longer with a name-plate at Broken Heart Lane. Steve Stone, local Geordie lad commentating on the game, said to call the Spurs wretched was generous. Martin Jol has the indignity of his reputation being whittled away, accusations of tactical naivety and so on, but it's hard to hold on to leads when your defence is cack and your best defender and club captain is a semi-permanent crock. Jol might be moved to say "Don't cry for me White Hart Lane/ The truth is I never left you (rather I was sacked)." With the approach of Halloween, kids on their trick and treat rounds could wear Spurs' shirts as something that's dead or there and thereabouts.

Carrying on with the football and Everton's decision to locate to a new ground outside the Liverpool area, it just makes all the more correct Bill Shankly's witty barb that "There are only two teams in Liverpool - Liverpool and the Liverpool reserves."