I had a very strange moment on Friday while writing the match preview for our game against Blackburn. Instead of my usual pessimism and doom and gloom outlook I felt positive. Instead of concentrating on team selection and formation as I normally do I forgot about all that and concentrated on the current Spurs team and where we've come in the last few seasons and where we're going.

If our boxing day game against Villa is on, and I guess it's a big if at the moment, it's yet another must win. I think I'm going to assume all games we play from now on are must win, at least until we're safely in the top 4 with no chance of going lower. Without football on boxing day the footballing population will crumble under the pressure of spending a further day with family.