Well Spurs, one of the premiership teams much beloved by the media , has achieved greatness tonight - they have made it into the Champions League. Westminster Abbey bells will peel and joy will be unconfined in the streets of Tottenham - does anyone really know where Tottenham actually is?



When SKY first arrived their match coverage and use of graphics made MOTD look like a a throw-back to the Black & White 50's era complete with dear Kenneth Wolstenhome; there was no similar progress on the cliche front. The tired old myths, well developed over the years by the newspapers, BBC & ITV where absorbed effortlessly into the new satellite era.

Man Utd have Duncan Edwards, the Munich air disaster and George Best, Liverpool have Shankley, the Boot Room and You'll Never Walk Alone and Spurs have Danny Blanchflower, winning the double first and that play some bloke wrote that was on TV.

So tonight, once again the cliches fell like enthusiastic rain as Manchester City - fast aquiring a new myth as the team who always shoot themselves in the foot - failed at the last gasp to beat those gallant boys in white. TV commentators weeped for joy.