Does today's fixture matter that much, it's only three points isn't it?

How much does this fixture matter to you? How much do you want us to wipe the smug grin off every Spud Fan’s face who believes the tide is turning in North London?

You might think that’s a silly question to ask a Gooner but today at The Emirates, every fan needs to let their voices show the players just how much it means, get behind our team from the off and let the voices of the Spud fans drown….

Is it the date you first check when the new seasons fixture list gets announced and put a big red mark on the calendar? I thought so.

Towards the end of last season, Tottingham finally broke their 20 game run without a victory over us in the league.  It wasn’t a good result for us but at least it helped the economy in that part of London with the sale of their DVD.

Since then of course we have faced them in the Carling Cup and after extra time came home with a 4-1 victory. They’ll want revenge for that I’m sure but that matters not it’s a Derby and we’ll be up for this game!

Tottingham haven’t beaten us on our territory for seventeen years and that last victory they experienced was back in 1993 when George Graham fielded a ‘reserve’ side as we had the FA Cup Final date a few days later. In fact I read yesterday that it’s been 68 games since they won away at either our ground or that of the Chavs, Manure or The Dippers!! Let’s make that 69 today if that fiqure is correct.

Spud fans believe they now have a much stronger side, certainly much stronger that ours but what poppycock!

They have Gomes – we have an ‘in –form’ Fabianski
Gallas –Squillaci
Bale – Nasri
Modric – Arshavin
Van de Vaart – Cesc Fabregas
Bentley – Wilshere
J-anus – Song
Crouch – Chamakh
Pavlyuchenko – Bendtner
Defoe – Robin van Persie
Lennon – Walcott

Be honest with yourselves, which player of theirs is better than ours, which of their players could get a game for Arsenal, let alone improve us? And I’ve only picked out their better players! Well, apart from
J-anus. 😉

Many no doubt will think Bale but wait until he’s been playing consistently for a season, then maybe but he blows hot and cold, today Sagna will make sure he’s the latter.

Then we have Rosicky, Sagna, Clichy, JET, Djourou, Gibbs, Denilson and even Eboue…

Come on, we outdo them in nearly every position and on our day we can be unstoppable, today has to be one of those days.

Not only can we not afford to drop points for the obvious reasons, we cannot lose again at home this season and especially not to our most bitter of North London rivals and we won’t!

This fixture matters more than any other League fixture in the season, yep, more than the Mancs or Chavs, this is tops. Today we are not only fighting for points we are fighting for the rights to brag too. Many Gooners have Tottingham fans as neighbours, work colleagues, maybe even customers. Do you want to see their sickly grin every day for the next ten years bragging about how they beat us today?? No nor do I and I don’t expect to either.

So come on Mr Wenger, pick the side that has the attitude to win, the commitment like we showed against Wolves and Everton. If we fight from the beginning to the end as we did in our last two games then we’ll win and we’ll be top of the league… 

Only three points at stake? Like heck is it!!

Come on you Mighty Reds!!