De-Gunners Gist

If the result of the north London derby dictates your mood, the tone for this Sunday will be set pretty early. Local pride and joy will be at stake from noon, a kick-off time that we’ve shared with Tottenham just once before in the Premier League. That game was one of north London’s most ludicrous spectacles, a 5-4 win at White Hart Lane in 2004 which ebbed and flowed and defied footballing logic. A goal every 10 minutes is all well and good but, frankly, Arsenal fans would take any sort of win this Sunday, and they’d put up with anything except a defeat.