....I got a bad feeling about this

You going? I don't think they'll beat us...

Yeah Breitner was great although a bit of a poseur with his politics.

Which part is cockney rhyming slang?

Yes. On the way.

I wish I shared your confidence.

Doesn't Old Lady mean a wife?

His actual career gets overlooked, I mean he was an absolutely nothing player.

I've been looking on you tube and can't find a single video of him playing the game.

To put it in perpestive whilst searching I managed to find a clip of a chimpanzee in full kit playing and nutmegging a defender to the music of Jason Derulo but nothing of arsene.

That's the trouble.

Yeah but it's not rhyming slang is it?

I love the smell of kebabs on the Seven Sisters Road in the morning...

Good luck, keep your head down, they'll be very cross if we do beat them!!!!

I'll leave in about an hour, but I'm not that confident either. Having said that, I remain to be convinced about how important the game actually might be. I'm expecting Wenger to stay whatever the result. If Arsenal win I'll still have big doubts about getting into the top four. If Tottenham win I won't expect them to catch or overtake Chelsea.

To do an American here I can also see a draw or us getting a good hiding. So I'm going out on a limb and predicting:

a) a win

b) a draw

c) a loss

But I think a is still perfectly possible.

Have to admit I"m massively looking forward to it out of curiosity as much as anything. That's a funny parodox - maybe this whole thing has been a cunning plan by Arsene to rekindle interest after boring us for so long.

I can also see a sending off with the likeliest culprits being Xhaka, Wanyama, Koscielny...

Doesn't it come from your wife being your trouble and strife, and it's a move on from that?

Me too. You'd need a MOAB to get that old *%^@** out of his bunker.

They're always cross down there. So would I be if I had to live in such a pestilential hellhole.

Decent lunch first though. Roast beef and a cheeky Cote du Rhine. Or two.

Rhone - don't get excited Bernard

How do Chelsea keep their players fit? Also 3 excellent subs. Were they to lose 3 or 4 players they'd be struggling too.

I'm nursing a quite agreeable hangover caused by pisco sours and a 1993 Pomerol (get excited, Bernard, it was excellent). Perfect for a bank holiday weekend and a NLD on the telly where the actual result is less important to me than usual...

Arsene should sign the chimp up immediately - it can do more than Walcott already. Although he'd probably coach the nutmegging out of it's repertoire.

Arsenal
33 Čech
5 Gabriel
6 Koscielny
18 Monreal
15 Oxlade-Chamberlain
29 Xhaka
8 Ramsey
3 Gibbs
11 Özil
7 Sánchez
12 Giroud
Substitutes
13 Ospina
14 Walcott
16 Holding
17 Iwobi
23 Welbeck
24 Bellerín
34 Coquelin

Ref Oliver

Spit...Tottenham
1 Lloris
16 Trippier
4 Alderweireld
5 Vertonghen
33 Davies
15 Dier
12 Wanyama
23 Eriksen
20 Alli
7 Son Heung-min
10 Kane
Substitutes
2 Walker
9 Janssen
13 Vorm
14 Nkoudou
17 Sissoko
19 Dembélé
27 Wimmer

Gibbs appears to be the new lovechild.................

War zone

Remind me again, why are some willing to give Sanchez £300000 a week?

This is a game where Walcott would thrive. Bring him on for Gibbs and switch him with Özil who's sleeping on the other wing..........................

Nah, the chimp should take over as manager. He's evidently "been in the game" and would in all probability be an improvement on the dinosaur currently in charge.

Liking our defence really hating our attackers.............

Yup. Squeak a win today and we are suddenly in pole position for 4th (or even the heady territory of 3rd!) and Spurs are feeling that familiar loose sensation in their guts.

Work permit issues?

Who would have thought, back in contention for the Fourth Place trophy aka the cup for mugs.

This is poor stuff. Giroud is abysmal and should be hooked and dropped from the squad for that feigning injury nonsense which nearly ended with Eriksen scoring. Özil is coasting. Xhaka doing nothing. Ramsey and Gibbs are the pick of them with Sanchez at least worrying Tottenham.

Pretty mixed performance really.

I think we have a few too many one paced players......Giroud, Xhaka, Ramsey........and one complete passenger in Özil.

We need more pace up top, a CF who can run the channels, run behind the totts defence and turn them.

Our central midfield is particularly one-paced when we have to defend.

I'd take Giroud off and put Welbeck on. Put Bellerin in for Ox and push Ox wide right. Sub Özil.

Clearly our options are limited but Özil is such a passenger defensively and it is exposed when he plays that wide role, especially as Ox is new to the wingback role and needs some protection at times.

Miserable f*ckers

What a blow. But it'll only multiplythe joys of slaking your thirst if we win.

No no no imo this is a game for Walcott and Özil is not and has never afaicr played on the right for anyone?

Giroud off, yes

Woeful defending

Bring Welbeck on. Giroud is a waste of space. Slow and nothing happens through him.

Kane made the most of that.

2 nil

Why are such pussies, no will or strength.

This could get worse just watch .....

3rd b%*&s%*^ penalty of the day to go against Arsenal interests. Another blatant dive today, and another phantom pen for spurs this season. Absolute joke of a decision.

Soz man def pen.....................

Giroud proving that he is a reserve striker at this level.