The last four times Arsenal and Spurs fought it out until the final day

Arsenal and Tottenham have one of the fiercest rivalries in the country and it’s reached another level now that both teams are neck in neck in the league table. With both trying to finish in the top four, every game is crucial, and the race may well go to the final day again.

The two North London clubs are currently separated by two points with five games remaining and have a massive North London Derby at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to help decide who will grab that final Champions League spot.

There is plenty of history of close league finishes between the two, often to make the difference between fourth and fifth-place finishes, and Arsenal took great pride in the annual “St Totteringham’s Day” celebration when they would be mathematically confirmed to sit at the top of North London.

Arsenal finished above Spurs for a remarkable 21 years in a row, mostly under the management of Arsene Wenger, but have been below them for the last five consecutive seasons.

We’ve remembered the four occasions since 2000 where it was still all up for grabs between the two clubs going into the final game.

Arsenal had a Champions League final against Barcelona on their minds, as well as the prospect of leaving their beloved Highbury Stadium to move to the Emirates back in 2006.

But there was the small matter of securing Champions League football for the following season with Spurs one point ahead in fourth going into the final day.

What happened next went down in history. Arsenal had to better Tottenham’s result against West Ham and won their final game at Highbury, beating Wigan 4-2 with Thierry Henry scoring a hat-trick.

Spurs meanwhile, had a suspicious bout of food poisoning the night before their game and ended up losing at West Ham,