Tottenham and Harry Kane turned up for the north London derby, Arsenal fell apart - The Warm-Up

FRIDAY'S BIG STORIES Played Ad/> For Arsenal, the only consolation is that it could have gone worse. Bukayo Saka could have retired at half-time and gone to live out his days on a small island somewhere in the south Atlantic. Granit Xhaka could have been arrested mid-game for fraud.

Or Rob Holding could have been sent off a couple of minutes before he was actually sent off. Lucky escape, really. Don't know what Mikel Arteta's complaining about.

Premier League'If I had to put money on it' — Neville backs Spurs to beat Arsenal to fourth15 MINUTES AGO The north London derby is only partly a football game. It is mostly a trembling contest of will and nerve, as the Premier League's two most existentially vulnerable big sides stare into each other's eyes and see there, reflected back, the deep uncertainty within themselves. Somebody always does something daft.

The trick is to make sure the other lot crack first. And that, more or less, is what Tottenham did. Put the pressure on, poke at the weak spots in Arsenal's defence, wait for the silly decisions to follow.

Look, there's Rob Holding pulling Son Heung-min to the floor. Look, there's Cedric charging through his own penalty area and into Son's back. Look, there's Holding blocking Son's run.

Whistle, whistle, whistle. Yellow, penalty, yellow and red. Asked about the refereeing after the game, Arteta reinvented the classic «If I speak I am in big trouble», announcing that «If I say what I think I am suspended for six months».

And you can understand his frustration. None of the decisions were wrong, as such, but all existed in that squidgy zone of refereeing discretion. Is this a let-things-go day, or a whistle-for-everything day? Ah.