Nervous in North London: One defeat away from crisis

IN the unlikely event that Andre Villas-Boas did not understand the importance of his first ever North London derby, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has been making sure to remind him — every day, for the past two weeks.

“He keeps on mentioning it,” Villas-Boas says. “The kick-off time, what are we going to do, what is going to happen, results from the past. There are memories all over the place.”

Arsene Wenger, of course, has plenty of them and does not need such reminders.