A point each tilts the Premier League pendulum further Manchester City's way

Harry Kane will not have failed to notice that the number 10 shirt he vacated played a significant role in Tottenham sharing the spoils; James Maddison made both Spurs goals

FULL BLOODED: Arsenal's Eddie Nketiah (left) fouls Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario during the Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium. Pic: Nick Potts/PA Wire

Harry Kane spent his Sunday afternoon drinking beer with his new Bavarian buddies; every Autumn Bayern Munich players enjoy a PR-friendly session at the Oktoberfest.

The England captain was filmed lifting a very large stein of lager indeed, a slightly embarrassed smile on his lips as he posed behind a row of inflatable ladybirds.

No doubt Kane kept himself informed upon the events that were unfolding in North London without him, for the first time in a decade. Perhaps he even slipped away somewhere to watch it.

If so he could have been forgiven for raising another glass on the final whistle, to toast his decision to turn his back on Tottenham and the Ange Postecoglou revolution: for all the joy the Australian has conjured up already, the league table offers no suggestion yet that Manchester City - the club he really wanted to join, two years ago - are likely to be ousted as champions.

Kane must also have felt some sort of pang however. True, he will most likely have a Bundesliga winners medal on his CV soon and possibly a DFB-Pokal one as well but scoring three times* in a 7-0 ritual humiliation of *checks notes* Bochum cannot come close to the feeling of celebrating a goal in front of your own fans in a derby. Kane did that 14 times before being released from the prison Postecoglou is quickly turning into paradise.

Kane will not have failed to notice either that the number 10 shirt he vacated played a significant role in Tottenham sharing the spoils; James Maddison made both Spurs goals.

He almost gifted Arsenal one as well, straight after Bukayo Saka's shot had gone in off Cristian Romero for an unlucky own goal opener.

Kane honed his reputation by dropping deep and acting as a supplier, usually for Heung-min Son, but Maddison could frequently be found on the edge of his own box, available to start the play-from-the-back moves that Postecoglou insists upon. Gabriel Jesus, he of the perpetually perplexed expression, robbed him there but spoiled all that good high pressing work by blazing wildly over when he could have just passed the ball into the net.

Maddison remained unaffected by that clanger, explaining afterwards that taking risks is all part of Angeball. And it was his left-wing see-you-later to Saka that allowed him to reach the byline and pull the ball back for Son, now the central striker in the post-Kane epoch, to level.

It was also Maddison who carved out Tottenham's second goal, seconds after Saka had converted a VAR-recommended penalty for ball to Romero's un-naturally raised forearm.

This time it was the England midfielder who was the mugger, catching Jorginho, on for the injured Declan Rice, cold and slipping Son in for an equally calm finish.

Tottenham fans can only imagine how it might have panned out if Kane had stayed around to play with the ex-Leicester man. And given Gareth Southgate's reluctance to pick Maddison England supporters might have to as well, although moving to a 'big' club usually does the trick with a Three Lions manager.

Postecoglou had claimed beforehand that he intended to take the game to the Gunners and that certainly wasn't how it was at first but Tottenham did eventually overtake their hosts in the possession stakes as well as matching them for shots at 13 each (the Gunners had one more on target).

Ange had made a big call in handing Brennan Johnson a first start, which meant Richarlison remained in the impact sub role he hates. The Wales winger had a couple of moments before being forced off with a hamstring problem (and not being replaced by Richarlison), the biggest of which was a chance at 1-0 that David Raya did extremely well to save.

Inevitably the cameras panned to Aaron Ramsdale on the Arsenal bench and he responded with some raised-arm applause that represented a show of solidarity in public at least. That's three games now that the on-loan Spaniard has started ahead of the England international; it seems clear now that Ramsdale is done and dusted as Mikel Arteta's number one whatever the Arsenal manager might say about future rotation, in game or out.

Martin Odegaard was strangely quiet the day after signing on for another five years at the Emirates and Saka, for all his goal contribution, was something of a disappointment, albeit for one reason only.

The wideman had Destiny Udogie on toast early on and the Italian was on a yellow card before the game was quarter of an hour old. That should have been the cue to pile non-stop pressure on the 20-year-old but it didn't happen until the 88th minute when a poorly-timed challenge left the Spurs man fearing a second yellow that never came.

The London rivals remain unbeaten then - not since 1990 had they even played each other in such a position of mutual strength - but a point each merely titled the pendulum slightly more City's way.

Arsenal host the Hundred Percenters at the Emirates on October 8 and Ange will have his first crack at Pep and Co in early December so perhaps the landscape will have changed by then. Weirdly, Spurs established themselves as City's bogey team, especially at home, even under their most bus-parkiest of managers so perhaps the stage is set for more of the same only with some actual football.

But as it stands it's as you were when it comes to an absence of silverware, for both teams.

*Oddly Kane is not regarded as having recorded a hat-trick as in Germany you have to score three goals in a row to qualify and three team-mates netted in between his first and last.