New manager syndrome - Scum players coming back to fitness - bad run can’t last - local derbies are different - their luck must change sometime - Harry Hotspur knows what he’s doing - talisman King is back (albeit with an occasional limp) - they have an Englishman who can now communicate with the players, after a fashion  - etc etc

Sounds to me like quite a minority of Arsenal punters are making a few contingency excuses for a poor performance against the Totts - a few of whom are beginning to mutter in a pub near you. This is negative thinking and we don’t want any thank you.

Tottenham may not be the absolute pits we’d all like them to be, but they are a team in disarray. They are a poor, disorganised, floundering outfit. They beat Bolton, who are not all that, at home - so what? They don’t have two additional classic centre forwards to chuck on if they are desperate to gain an ill-deserved point. Their keeper could, if we were being really kind, be described as iffy. Do they know what a midfield is? Believe me they are dreading this game, even though they’ve gone so far down they have nothing to lose. Look carefully and you’ll even find that Harry Hotspur is now developing some additional twitches.

We should chew them up, spit them out, give them a good slapping, roll them over, take the p*ss and then slaughter them before grounding them into our lush prize-winning turf. I’m up for it and I trust the team are.

Bring it on.