10 THINGS WE LEARNED from the Premier League weekend

It was the Premier League weekend that saw four goals shared in a pulsating north London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham, Manchester City continue their perfect start and Newcastle smash eight past sorry Sheffield United.

Manchester United ground out a much-needed win at Burnley, Chelsea slumped to 14th after a home loss to Aston Villa, while Liverpool are up to second after beating West Ham.

Elsewhere, Brighton bounced back from their Europa League disappointment, Everton claimed a morale-boosting win at Brentford and Luton picked up their first point in the Premier League.

It's fair to say Crystal Palace vs Fulham failed to elicit a great deal of excitement.

Mail Sport takes a look at 10 things we learned from the weekend's top-flight action.

Spurs are 'Spursy' no longer

It's long been a stick used to beat them with and Tottenham never quite seem able to fully shed their unflattering and unwanted 'Spursy' tag.

As James Maddison neatly summarised after Sunday's north London draw at Arsenal, it might be defined in the football lexicon as: 'Soft, weak, bottling it.'

But Maddison was speaking in such terms to make the point that Ange Postecoglou's Spurs aren't 'Spursy' at all.

The way they twice fought back to draw 2-2 at the Emirates Stadium - in the case of Son Heung-min's second goal, a mere 23 seconds after the restart after conceding - suggests a greater steel, more backbone.

Under their Australian boss, Spurs have also come from behind at Brentford to draw, come from behind at Burnley to win emphatically and scored twice deep into stoppage time to beat Sheffield United.

'I think the last couple of weeks shows we might be going in a slightly different direction,' added Maddison.

'We go behind twice at arguably one of the