Did you see it? At White Hart Lane today? Live or on TV? Yes, Vincent Janssen smiled and 40,000 people plus smiled with him. The man scored a goal. One goal. Finally. Spurs were already 3-0 up and any competitiveness had long before disappeared from this match. But the smile. Myself and the 40,000, probably, didn't think it was possible.
When Janssen was standing on the sideline waiting to come on he had the expression on his face which seems to be the norm for him: fear (that he's not going to score again), disappointment (with the premonition that he's going to, yes, disappoint again), foreboding (definition from Cambridge Dictionary: "a feeling that something very bad is going to happen soon", like another terrible miss) and I even think, boredom. He never looks excited to play, never seems to be having any fun.
Tottenham seem to have a problem with spending a lot of money of centre forwards, strikers, number 9's, goalscorers who seem to forget how to do exactly that when they move to Spurs. And they don't just fail. They fail spectacularly. Remember these superstars: Rebrov, Postiga, Bent, Zamora, Dumitrescu and of course Soldado? They were good, just not at Spurs. Then there was the player who was supposed to become a superstar because Martin Jol, the manager at the time, said he would: Grzegorz Rasiak. Who? I only came across his name by accident
But well done, Vincent. Let's hope it's just that you took slow starting to a whole new level. Eight months. We look forward to many more smiles.
Oh, and before I go, for those of you who don't see any results below the Premier League, or Serie A, or La Liga, the good people of the congregation of the St. Peter and St Paul parish church in Aston must not have a good line to God as Aston Villa lost today (see yesterday). There was no return favour. Or they prayed for a Reading win as a punishment for all the years that football took precedence over Good Friday. Either way they'll be stuck with miserable supporters of a second tier team walking past their church for at least one more year.
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