At my school, we sat at old style wooden desks (really), which were set out in rows of five. Your place was determined by your position in class (there were no qualms about ranking kids then based on their performances in term and exam). So 1st to 5th sat on the first row, 6th to 10th on the second. That meant 2nd and 7th sat adjacent to each other. 2nd was clever, nearly top of the class whereas 7th was aspiring to be clever, but a bit off the pace. 7th invariably glanced across to the right, hoping to crib from whatever 2nd was writing down.
You can see where the analogy is going.
Who thought Arsenal would be sat there, glancing across trying to emulate what Spurs are doing?!
