The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur news and links for Monday, December 22

Thank goodness we have a Tottenham Hotspur Christmas jumper.

I can’t seem to find the link, but I do remember (either this year or the one before that) complaining that Spurs do not have a Christmas jumper.

But they do this year. Here it is:

Here I am asking a few questions:

1. Why do we need “Merry Christmas” where the kit sponsor usually is?
2. Why is there a “COYS” where the Nike logo usually is?
3. Why is the club crest so darn cool?

Regardless of the above, I do enjoy the cleaner look behind this jumper. It’s too late for your hoddler-in-chief to sport this bad boy (he will be wearing a gray Christmas jumper with the sketch of a dinosaur sporting a red Santa hat – it’s actually tasteful), and it might be too late for you. But it isn’t too late for Pedro Porro, Beth England or Micky van de Ven.

I did a little more searching on the Spur shop and there’s also a cockerel snowglobe (cool!), a THFC ornament (ok), a pet Christmas jumper (why?), Christmas socks (not bad) and a Christmas stocking (not the best but sure why not).

All this is to say I will stick with my Tottenham Hotspur oven mitt that I bought more than a decade ago.

Fitzie’s track of the day: Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’, by Albert King

And now for your links:

Alasdair Gold: “Thomas Frank’s unexpected Arne Slot chat in a corridor after defeat and what Romero told Bergvall”

Jack P-B ($$): “Tottenham lost at home again. But in the chaos there was unity”