Tommy Martin: How the sporting Gods often make the mighty look silly

It was a week when the hubristic were well and truly humbled. 
NET LOSS: Igor Tudor, who's position as Tottenham boss is under intense pressure after another awful night for the Croatian in the Champions League. Pic: John Walton/PA Wire.

NET LOSS: Igor Tudor, who's position as Tottenham boss is under intense pressure after another awful night for the Croatian in the Champions League. Pic: John Walton/PA Wire.

People involved in sport often talk about how it is a force for good. It keeps kids off the streets, stops you getting fat and gives emotionally stunted men something to talk about.

This may all be true, but what they don’t put in the grant applications and public health pamphlets is that it also makes you look silly. Very silly. Like Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper falling on his backside levels of silly.

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