"Bye bye, birdie..."

So, goodbye Carrick, hello Zokora. Farewell Bunjevcevic, greetings Berbatov. So long Mido, maybe welcome back, er, Mido...?
And goodbye Chirpy - hello... Road Runner?

"Old" Chirpy was perhaps a little bland, but benign - a cheery, indeed chirpy mascot who you'd never catch brawling with rival pigs (a la Wolves' Wolfie) or snatching another mascot's oversized head and dropkicking it into the crowd (after the fashion of Swansea's infamous Cyril The Swan).

This "New" Chirpy, though, making his White Hart Lane debut for today's Tottenham triumph over the latest Italian "champions"...?

Well, he just looks rather glum and even evil...



This, however, is even more unnecessary and embarrassing. The whiff of weak lemon cordial seeps strongly from the screen...