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There is one tag that Antonio Conte must erase from his club’s vocabulary if he is to be successful in north London.

You know the one: ‘Spursy.’ This notion - one that has followed the club around for years - decades even - that there is a soft underbelly just waiting to be exposed. That if they can find a way to implode, they will. Actually, it’s sometimes worse than that. Sometimes, it just happens.

Like the time they needed victory at West Ham to cement Champions League qualification and were knocked out by a dodgy lasagne. Arsenal fans everywhere laughed long and loud into the night after that one. There are numerous other examples - and they’re not all bad. Even when Spurs finally headed into the final of European football’s Blue riband competition, they did it with a comeback in Amsterdam that beggared belief.

It was, well, just ‘Spursy.’ This all adds to the excitement of club motto ‘To dare is to do.' But this roller-coaster of emotions has never actually translated into anything tangible, like a big silver pot. In Antonio Conte - at long last - they have a manager capable of dismantling the myth.

With the Gunners surprisingly caving in at home to Brighton, this was a heaven-sent opportunity to plant a stake in the ground; to demonstrate Spurs’ top-four credentials and put clear water between them and their rivals.

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