Tottenham 2 - Arsenal 2
Happy St. Totteringham’s Day!!! The day that Tottenham can no longer finish above Arsenal in the league, an annual holiday that is so popular, even the Spurs players were celebrating it at the end of the match.
 Spurs players celebrating St. Totteringham’s Day |
We were poor in the first half, much much better in the second, deserved to win, but the luck (3 shots hitting the post, 1 perfectly good goal disallowed, 4 minutes of injury time - where did that come from?) and the usual problems (Bye Bye Baptista) were against us. A draw is still a credible result, and considering how we completely outplayed Tottenham in the second half (without key players I might add), it just goes to show the divide between the quality of the two teams. I was so close with my prediction about Adebayor scoring the winning goal, but he did score, so that’s a good thing.
With Bolton and Everton both losing, this means we are 9 points ahead of the chasing pack, with 3 games left. With our superior goal difference, this should be 4th place all but secured - a point in our next 3 games would ensure it mathematically.
As for the Dein/Kroenke matter, some are saying we don’t have a right to complain about foreign ownership considering our foreign players and manager. There is some truth to this, in that we shouldn’t complain about foreign ownership just because the owners are foreign. As I mentioned a few days ago, the issue is not whether the new owners are foreign, it’s whether they are Arsenal fans or not and also how they plan on running the club. Even if the new owners are English, I would still not want them here if they weren’t Arsenal fans or if they plan to run the club like Roman Abramovich with Chelsea. As Wenger said yesterday, it would be much better to live at the top level with our own resources (which is perfectly possible as we are predicted to become one of the richest clubs in the world in the next 3-5 years), rather than getting someone to pump cash in and artificially holding the club together.
So to sum up, foreign players are necessary if you want the best players in the world (the players most likely to win the Premier League player of the season awards, Drogba and Ronaldo, aren’t English). Foreign managers are necessary if you want the best managers in the world (none of the managers of the top 4 teams in England are English). To have the best owners/board, this means having fans of the club with a fantastic plan for the club, and this is exactly what we have at the moment. No change needed.