Spirit shows in Fab day at Spurs

I DID the aural equivalent of a double take, on hearing the Gooners around me break into several sonorous choruses of “We are top of the league” when we eventually took the lead at White Hart Lane with only 10 minutes left on the clock last Saturday.

After all, it’s been three long years since we last rejoiced to the sound of this highly-satisfying refrain and I’ve grown so accustomed to living in the shadow of the teams above us that, up until this point, it hadn’t even occurred to me that this was a possible outcome of Saturday’s near-perfect proceedings (with the exception of Vidic’s late goal at Goodison).

It tickles me to see the tabloids singing our praises, as if our title credentials were never in doubt, when in truth there’s probably little to choose between us and our immediate rivals and avid Arsenal watchers can attest to my previous assertion, that we remain a good distance from finding top gear.