Richarlison’s chase for a Spurs league goal is becoming increasingly dramatic. Good job they’ve still got Harry Kane to keep scoring without fuss. For now.
If you really wanted to take a long look into the dark night of the soul that is Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, you probably couldn’t have done much better than the opening five minutes of their latest game against the still relegation-haunted Nottingham Forest. After all the to-ing and fro-ing this week between Richarlison and Antonio Conte, Conte opted to start Richarlison against Forest, and within three minutes the striker had the ball in the back of the net. Go on, then. Prove yourself. Okay then, I will.
Such a moment would be peak Premier League Narrative at most clubs, but Tottenham Hotspur Narrative doesn’t work like it does at others. Richarlison ran away after scoring, shushing Conte on the sidelines, and as if this little DVD extra wasn’t enough, the punchline landed a couple of minutes later, not only with the video assistant ruling the goal out after all, but also with the suggestion on social media being that the lines that determined the offside decision might have been drawn in the wrong place.
Whether this was the case or not, we can at least all agree that this sequence of events happening in the order in which it did was very, very funny, all the more so because in picking up a yellow card for removing his shirt after scoring against Nottingham Forest, he’d repeated something that he’d done exactly the same at the City Ground earlier in the season.
If the mood around the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has been as dark as it has in recent times this week, then at least Liverpool were on hand to give them a little shot in the arm once Saturday afternoon came around with a shonky performance of their own against Bournemouth in the lunchtime kick-off. Over the last few weeks, Spurs’ continuing presence in the top four when they’ve seemed to lose every week has been a cause of much head-scratching bemusement; perhaps the bottom line over the chase for fourth place is that none of the others near the top are much good this season, either.
And while Richarlison’s attempts to break his Premier League duck for Spurs this season have been becoming increasingly dramatic (and rich in low comedy) as the weeks have progressed, Kane has simply got on with the job of scoring goals. He managed this twice in the space of sixteen minutes throughout the first half of this game,…
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