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Having a nibble at the Wafer Cup
 WELL done to Tottenham Hotspur for their 2-0 Wafer Cup win against Besiktas on Thursday night. What a glory, glory, glory night that was. Or something like that.
They got through the whole match without biting, sorry, without ‘comicly nibbling’ anyone.
Anyways, it’s a good time to explain to confused readers (ie all of you) what the Wafer Cup actually is.
First of all, we make sure that any decent team goes into the Champions League. That’s  Arsenal, Barcelona, Inter Milan, that kind of thing. Then we put all the second-rate teams in the Wafer Cup.
The teams play each other a few times and some part-timers from Lithuania – teams about as good as Grimsby (one for old times’ sake, folks) – are eliminated. The rest go into a group stage where everybody qualifies to next stage.
After that, we have another pointless group round. If anyone is still watching after that, it’s a knockout stage where the fifth-best team in England play the fifth-best team from Portugal. Fun times. Glad my Channel 5 reception is still fuzzy.
 SO now we know Paul Robinson really does eat all the pies in the Spurs dressing room.
But you shouldn’t still be gnashing your teeth West Hambleton fans. Without famished Defoe and Nibblegate everyone would have been taking the mickey out of your team on Sunday.
 As it was, they waited until Tuesday. But worry not bubble blowers, this Spurs supporter isn’t about to ridicule your team for not having won since August.
Or for having their worst run for 74 years. For crashing out of Europe. For losing to Chesterfield. For signing Incredible Hulk Tevez. Or even for having a player on their books called Pantsil.
Nope, I’m just going to congratulate my Spurs for being applauded off the pitch in Turkey by hard-bitten home fans who had just seen their team humbled but were so impressed by their opponents they set aside their usual vitriol to show their respect.
Like West Ham winning, it may never happen again. But it sure was worth the wait.
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