Spurs and Arsenal were in a neck-to-neck race to finish 4th in the EPL - thereby securing the last slot to play the Champions League next season, potentially worth over 30 million pounds to either club. Yesterday was photo-finish day and as it stood, if Spurs had won away at West Ham, whatever Arsenal did would not have been enough. However, in a crazy turn of events usually not associated with one of the most professional sports leagues in the world, 10 members of the Spurs football team got up sick in the tummy! And all this after staying in a plush hotel in London at 400 pounds a night. Of course it is unfortunate, but begs the question - on perhaps the club's MOST important day ever, how could an entourage of professional dieticians, coaches and the like allow this to happen? Goes to show that sometimes, SHIT JUST HAPPENS!
Anyhow, as it turned out, Arsenal won handsomely at Highbury (last game there incidentally) on the back of a fantastic Henry hat-trick, and Spurs looked downbeat as they lost 2-1, thereby relinquishing their 4th position. The unkindest cut of all of course was that Arsenal are their absolute arch-rivals - who hate losing out to each other more than most. Poor old Spurs - who now have to wait another season to have a go.
I can't help thinking about the uproar if something like this happened in India to a visiting team like England. All hell would have broken loose and the sub-continent would have been branded as the worst place to tour after Siberia! As I said, sometimes it just happens, even in 5-star hotels in London.
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