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You would imagine Arsenal are getting really tired of this ‘bottlers’ stuff thrown at them by now. Professional footballers or not, they’re still human so nobody can tell me they’re all not aware of it, not with this social media world we live in these days.

A large part of me thinks they’ll go out and pretty much destroy Spurs this weekend, and, with the momentum from that, get a couple of good results in the next couple that will see the gap grow again.

And some of me wants them to do it too because you’re talking about one of the genuine, historical clubs of English football when it comes to challenging for honours… – longest in the top flight by some margin, 3 league wins on the bounce before any of us were born, Cup Final wins, Herbert Chapman, Charlie George, Liam Brady, Michael Thomas and ‘The Invincibles’ of Arsene Wenger… – …so to have all that reduced to what just feels like a bunch of folks pointing and going ‘Ha Ha!’ like Nelson Muntz in The Simpsons… nah, not for me thanks.

Anyway, looking forward to the game – North London derbies often entertaining as hell (even if the meeting earlier in the season was a bit of a slaughter). Spurs-Arsenal always makes me think of that brilliant curling effort from Brady that time….

“Look at that! Oh, look at that!” – John Motson