I watched the Tottenham Hotspurs play a Premier League soccer match against Liverpool Football Club yesterday morning with my friend Mark. The match took place at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in North London, as seen in the photograph above, with Mark in the foreground thanks to Photoshop. Although Tottenham was down two players due to penalties, it gave Liverpool a run for its money in the second half before losing by a score of 2-1. Liverpool is in 5th place in the Premier League standings, while Tottenham is in 13th place. And Tottenham definitely doesn't want to fall any further in the standings. Unlike major league teams here in the U.S., at the end of the season the three teams in the Premier League with the worst records (18th thru 20th place) are relegated to the 2nd tier Championship League and replaced in the Premier League by the top three Championship teams. Can you imagine if that happened in Major League Baseball? It would mean that next season, the Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, and Washington Nationals would be playing in AAA, and the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Railriders, and Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs would become major league teams. And just where the hell is Lehigh Valley, anyway? Talk about the world turned upside down.
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