I often bemoan the brainfarts that individual players tend to suffer. According to Opta, if goals from individual errors were removed from the entire Premier League last season, Arsenal would have been champions. Maybe somebody told the players this on Sunday as what we saw was as disciplined a defensive display as we have for many a year. As discussed, Tottenham had much of the ball but couldn’t penetrate a backline marshalled admirably by the returning Laurent Koscielny. Anything that did sneak through was dealt with by Szczesny, but it wasn't just the defence that deserves praise.

We’ve lost a match winner.  Bale scored 26 goals last season and there were some absolutely some crucial ones, such as his last minute winner at West Ham. We were dubbed as a “one-man” side and now we have word-class strength and depth in the additions which Levy, Baldini and AVB have made to the Spurs ranks since the end of the last campaign. It’s an exciting time to be a Spurs fans, but we cannot sit back on our laurels.  The new arrivals have to ‘gel’ immediately and fill the void which Bale will leave.

You’d have to go back some way to find a domestic match where we played as well as this. The key to the success has to be the way the team was able to demonstrate its overwhelming superiority in midfield. Although, going up against Scott Parker and Steve Sidwell, I expect nothing less. While I’d still very much welcome a designated defensive midfielder, it cannot be denied how well the trio on Saturday worked together as a unit. Santi was at his metronomic best dictating the play and teasing Fulham like some sort of fleet-footed burlesque dancer.  The constant debate over whether he should be in the middle or coming in from wide areas is one I never really understood. When he plays like this, there are very few opposition players who could even get near him. And even if