This Sunday Arsenal will travel four miles up the A503 and A10 to White Hart Lane and play Tottenham Hotspur for the 174th time in the what is known as the North London Derby. A competition that dates back over 125 years, has had its fair share of important games, and even a few players that have changed sides over the years doesn’t need the hype of a title race or a trophy to make every meeting between the two clubs an intense battle. This season, however, the battle for fourth place in the league and the riches that come with it via next year’s Champions League competition have added to the weight of this weekend’s match. After the dust settles early Sunday evening there will still be ten matches left in the Premier League season, but the results of this weekend’s match will go a long way towards determining who may be representing North London in UEFA’s premier competition next season and who may be heading to the less lucrative and less presitgious Europa League. The stakes couldn’t be higher for both the clubs and their managers. …read more
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