About as good a job as you're doing trying to play down the fact that you had nothing to celebrate except pipping Spurs by one point!..
Oh we celebrated it, just not like 'winning the CL final' as you claimed. That was your gloss trying to cover up the butt-hurt of ****ing it up to us so spectacularly on the last day of the season. I've no doubt that had you finished above us though, your celebrations would have been like winning the CL, the league and getting a blow job from Liz Hurley all rolled into one
I couldn't give much of a toss about finishing ahead of you. Contrary to what you seem to believe, you're not so important to many Spurs supporters as we seem to be to you!
"Arsenal mickey-takers targeting Tottenham make Gunners look like a Mickey Mouse club and Tottenham will have the last laugh according to Arsenal legend Ian Wright. THE mickey-taking suffered by Tottenham fans right now will hurt. Sunday’s 5-1 defeat away at Newcastle was the worst possible way to end the season. However the abuse they are getting from Arsenal and Chelsea fans is actually a compliment and shows just what they have achieved. They have made the supporters of their biggest London rivals behave like fans of small-time clubs. The sad thing is what Gunners fans are doing — teasing Spurs that Arsenal came second and achieved more — is what Spurs used to do to us when I was at Highbury. The way Chelsea and Arsenal fans are celebrating Spurs not winning the league signifies the change in Tottenham. It’s like the Ryder Cup. America used to hammer us all the time. Then in 1983 Seve Ballesteros was asked back, they beat us by a point and everyone was disappointed. But Seve said: “They always beat us but look at how happy they are to beat us this time. We are emerging now." That’s how Tottenham should look at it. Chelsea and Arsenal, two teams that are supposed to be in a different stratosphere, are now bricking it because Tottenham are coming. Those Arsenal fans who think their club only started with the Emirates are always having a go at ex-footballers like me who care about the club. But when you know what the standards are, finishing second — and with a worse points tally than last season — is disappointing. Those Arsenal fans should be thinking about what could have been, not what is. Arsenal stopped playing after Christmas. When Arsene Wenger says they were in a false position midway through the season because of the games they had to come, it’s just another excuse for a team that should have done a lot better. Arsenal had an opportunity and they missed it. Leicester had an opportunity and they took it. Tottenham had an opportunity and they ran out of steam in the last four games. Spurs’ players will be disappointed about that tepid ending but they have had a fantastic season and must take all the positives they can. Manchester City out-scored them but only just. And they had the best defensive record in the league. Young players like Dele Alli and Eric Dier emerged and Harry Kane confirmed he is the real deal. They will all have learned a lot from this season and the fact everyone is so happy that Tottenham did not win the league just shows they are in the ascendancy. Spurs will need to be active over the summer and I am sure they will. They must make sure the back-up guys in the squad are better because Tottenham’s bench is not as strong as that of other teams. But we’re talking about two or three players maximum to come in. If you’re a player looking for that glamour move to a Premier League club in London, then it’s an interesting situation. With Chelsea, you’re thinking, ‘They have a new manager, it’s transition time, there is a lot that has to happen there’. With Arsenal, you think, ‘They and their manager are under a lot of pressure. They’ve not really won anything apart from the FA Cup in the last ten or 12 years. Which player is going to help me get Arsenal over the line?’. Then you look at Tottenham: Emerging, young team, new stadium on the way, good manager. If Tottenham can match the wages of an Arsenal or a Chelsea, they are a very attractive proposition. We will see who is laughing at the end of next season." Former Arsenal legend Ian Wright.
Love Wrighty as a pundit - just says it like it is - just about everything he said about us over this season proved to be spot on - unlike the rose tinted tit brigade of the likes of Lawro and Mickey Quinn and their unflinching incomprehensible bias ...
Wrighty makes a valid point. But I don't see any Arsenal fans claiming we've had a good season. Yes we finished 2nd but it was with a lower points total than 8 out of the last 10 seasons, so that tells you that the other big clubs faltered badly too and both Leicester and Spurs were able to take advantage. To be fair to Leicester they stormed the league and won it by a length, but ultimately 3rd place flattered Spurs because had the other big teams performed then they probably would have ended up around 5th, their usual position. Ultimately though, anybody who knows the rivalry is naive to think that whoever finished higher from Arsenal and Spurs wasn't going to take the piss out of the other.
