Tottenham unleash four months of ‘fury’, ‘anger’ and ‘surprise’ on stunned Arsenal in CL race

Arsenal planted the seed for their own self-destruction back in January. Tottenham rode an early wave and avenged that perceived injustice.

The dream is still alive. If, as seems to have been decreed by fate, Arsenal lose 1-0 to Newcastle and 8-7 at home to Everton through a variety of Gunnersaurus own goals and Jordan Pickford scoring from a save which rebounds off the post and over a prematurely celebrating Aaron Ramsdale’s head, and Tottenham draw 0-0 with Burnley but are beaten 11-0 by Norwich on the final day, the stage would be set for the most parodically self-destructive hour and a half since Tommy Wiseau spent $6million on a 99-minute vanity project.

That would, of course, require the Premier League to overlook Tottenham’s head-to-head advantage over Arsenal this season. Spurs bettered the 3-1 defeat inflicted upon them by the Gunners in September, riding a 10-minute opening wave which subsequently evaporated into farcical obscurity. But the goalposts have been moved in this fixture before.

That simmering anger from the postponement of a fixture originally scheduled for mid-January was channelled to devastatingly brilliant effect by the hosts in north London. Antonio Conte and his players willed this victory into existence. Arsenal had been warned that this was four months in the making.

Dare. Dream. Do. pic.twitter.com/hxefQMznmG

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) May 12, 2022

The Gunners were two points clear of a Tottenham side which had a couple of games in hand back then. Benjamin White was available. Kieran Tierney, too. Cedric Soares was not. Arsenal supporters will have their own theories on which of those is more beneficial.

For Tottenham, Heung-min Son was injured and Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo