Inside Arsenal's wild celebrations after sealing EPL title 20 years ago
This Sunday, Arsenal will travel across the Seven Sisters Road to Tottenham and hash out one of the most bitter, heated rivalries in English football - the North London Derby.
It's the first game fans pick out when the fixtures are released, the most in-demand tickets on the market, and undoubtedly the most stressful days of any supporter's season.
The stakes are just that much higher; defeats are all the more painful, every blunder and mistake will be sent your way for the next six months by rival fans. But the victories are celebrated like a Cup Final and every scrap of joy eked out until the next meeting.
The North London Derby has been played out 194 times and given both sets of fans some of their most cherished football memories, but for Arsenal it is a chance to re-live perhaps the greatest moment in their history.
Back in 2003-04 - the last time the Gunners lifted the Premier League trophy - Arsene Wenger's soon-to-be Invincible Arsenal travelled to White Hart Lane in the knowledge that a point would secure the crown in their rivals' back yard.
Goals from Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires - two beautifully crafted team goals, it's worth noting - had Arsenal 2-0 up at the break. A stunner from Jamie Redknapp and a penalty dispatched by Robbie Keane made it 2-2 by full-time, but despite throwing away a two-goal lead, it was enough. The Gunners had done it.
The scenes from that Sunday in April almost 20 years ago to the day are ingrained in almost every Arsenal fan lucky enough to have seen them, blessed with the gift of a shard of local pride that can never be taken away from them.
Just imagine that prospect for a second, the chance to win the Premier League - a title your opponent is still yet to win - at the expense of
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