On Friday morning Rebecca's card for Sunday was mostly red again.
She had circled 3 names in green. Wan-Bissaka, 60 minutes. Eze, 65. Grealish, 75. Under them, in her small writing, she had put KRUL ONLY IF STEELE SAYS SO, because of the shootout on Wednesday night.
Steele said so.
Bray had Llorente on his iPad. He had a man picked for every Spurs corner, and he wanted Højbjerg on the near post for all of them. I told him Højbjerg was starting. He wrote it down before I had finished saying it.
Marcus had a white dot for every touch JJ made at Stamford Bridge on his laptop. 71 of them. 40 on the left touchline, then the rest all over the pitch in the last 20 minutes, chasing.
On Saturday Michael Cooke drove to Portsmouth.
He rang me at 5 from the car park at Fratton Park with the engine running.
