The Spuds came into the Emirates high on more confidence than cocaine can give, and were hoping to give birthday boy Emmanuel Adebayor the head of AW on a silver platter with another of those blinding performances they have been displaying every week. What’s funnier, is that the game came at a time when the balance of power is supposedly shifting, with Spurs playing the kind of football that previous Arsenal teams have been known to have copyrighted. With barely four minutes on the clock, Louis Saha set about writing that

A come back that started with an opportunistic Bacary Sagna header, via a Robin Van Persie blinder concluded with a sleek Theo Walcott finish in an afternoon Arsenal performance that had Newcastle surprised at how easily Tottenham could be so heartlessly reversed particularly so soon after the latter had buried them.

The Spuds came into the Emirates high on more confidence than cocaine can give, and were hoping to give birthday boy Emmanuel Adebayor the head of AW on a silver platter with another of those blinding performances they have been displaying every week. What’s funnier, is that the game came at a time when the balance of power is supposedly shifting, with Spurs playing the kind of football that previous Arsenal teams have been known to have copyrighted. With barely four minutes on the clock, Louis Saha set about writing that new theory in stone but after that Adebayor penalty, Arsenal set about re-establishing normalcy in a tone as bullish as that Theo Walcott double, and the dexterity familiar with Tomas Rosicky’s finish!

By the time Scott Parker got his marching orders, the damage had been done. Rosicky covered every blade of grass, and so did Sagna. Theo Walcott delivered the kind of directness that AC Milan had expected to see the other week, while the entire defense re-organized marvelously after conceding two. Ypssi Benayoun was active in an afternoon that left ‘Arry as clueless as Adebayor. Gareth Bale never turned up, and along with Van Der Vaart resorted to long range efforts that had Szcescny rubbing his hands with glee every time he saw one sizing up a shot. He needed some catching practice for the much needed clean sheet against Milan.

Tottenham may talk about their form all they like, after all, they were the favorites in this tie for the first time in my lifetime but sometimes, C.L.A.S.S, that single ingredient that all superpowers posses has a way of rearing it’s head when faced with the defiantly over hyped ingredient called form. The lesson was learn’t, the message delivered in bold font and so, as the Spuds make their way across the street to their humble abodes, they would do well to print out t-shirts not celebrating birthdays but rather with the humbling inscriptions;-“I heard Arsenal fans sing.”

You fear what you don’t know, and you hate what you fear, you Sp**s!

Mean Lean’s Response

Wonderful energy, wonderful commitment and a great fight back from the boys. Had we had the same attitude in Milan then perhaps we would still be in the tie. It begs the question, can the unthinkable still happen? Perhaps not but that is for another day. Today was a day when the best Tottenham team in PL history got smacked senseless by the so called worst Arsenal side in PL history. 7 points behind them, we have scored more goals than them and have the best striker in the Premier League.

I am going to dig out my St Totteringham’s Day cards, you never know, we may still need them for this year.