The Gunners and Spurs have one of the fiercest rivalries in the Premier League, which Mikel Arteta’s team can still win this season.
Arsenal still harbour hopes of winning their first Premier League title since 2003/04, although their recent home defeat to Aston Villa has given Manchester City the upper hand in the race for top spot. A victory away to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday is almost a must for Mikel Arteta’s side, who hold a one-point lead but have played a game more. And it would also ensure St. Totteringham’s Day takes place for the second year running.
The rivalry between the Gunners and Spurs is one of the fiercest in the Premier League, and has arguably been ramped up in the last decade or so, in which Tottenham have turned themselves into semi-regular top-four contenders. That, however, was far from always being the case.
Even the most ardent Spurs fan can’t deny that Arsenal have enjoyed far greater success throughout their history. Tottenham have won two European trophies to the Gunners’ one and four League Cups to two, but Arsenal handsomely lead the way in terms of league titles (13-2) and FA Cups (14-8), which will undoubtedly have led to jealous glances across the north of the city.
Such was their superiority, in the 2000s, Arsenal fans invented the brilliantly condescending concept of St. Totteringham’s Day, a celebration of when it became mathematically impossible for Tottenham to finish above them in the Premier League, something which didn’t happen for a period of 22 years up between 1995 and 2017.
By then, however, Spurs had become something a force to be reckoned with, regularly qualifying for European competitions, which rarely happened in the 1990s and early 2000s. They had the upper hand over
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