Terrace Talk: Tottenham - Same Mourinho, same depressingly predictable story

Edinson Cavani scores Manchester United's second goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Picture: Matthew Childs/PA

What time are we playing? Are we at home or away? Each matchday during the Great Pandemic Lockout tends to blend into the next as the season draws to its conclusion, with none of the defining characteristics of a particular home game or a trip away to bookmark the 90 minutes. Switch on, settle down, assume the receive position. It’s all so routine, but we cling on to the contact because it’s all we’ve got.

For Spurs fans, the routine nature of watching football under lockdown is further underlined by the routine nature of what unfolds. Same coach. Same old story. Here’s how it goes.