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Tottenham nabbed a last minute winner against Stoke yesterday to keep themselves in with a chance of nicking the last Champions League position from Arsenal, and believe that Wigan are in the perfect frame of mind to cause an upset at the Emirates tomorrow evening.

Wigan may have won the FA Cup, but now they are fighting for their Premiership survival, and the Spurs boss Andre Villas-Boas thinks that they are primed and ready for tomorrow. AVB said: “Obviously there is great emotion and motivation going through the Wigan players’ heads at the moment, and we saw the message from Dave Whelan saying they are absolutely focused.” .......Read the full article here

Arsenal’s home game against Wigan has now taken on even more importance after the Spuds late winner over Stoke yesterday. The Gunners have dropped below Spurs with just two games to go, so we simply MUST beat Wigan at the Emirates to regain our ascendance to the Champions League.

Once those three points are secured, we will have a free run up at Newcastle on the last day of the season after the Toon beat QPR to ensure their safety from relegation. The Newcastle boss Alan Pardew said yesterday: “I’m very pleased. It was a very important game for this football club. .......Read the full article here

To borrow a phrase from the retiring Alex Ferguson, it really is squeaky bum time for Arsenal. Tottenham got yet another result they barely deserved at Stoke today, which means that the Gunners are now sitting outside the Champions League places in fifth position.

Spurs now have 69 points, two more than Arsenal, so we absolutely must beat Wigan Athletic at the Emirates on Tuesday. It will definitely go to the last day of the season, whatever the result against Wigan. The Gunners have an away game at Newcastle, while their North East rivals Sunderland travel to White Hart Lane. Both of those teams could need a result to guarantee their Premier League safety, depending on how they do today and how Wigan do on Tuesday. .......Read the full article here

All of the Arsenal fans love Wojciech Szczesny and most of us think he has the abilty and potential to be one of the best keepers in the world. Up until a few weeks ago, though, his future at Arsenal looked uncertain after his form tailed off dramatically in a season to forget for the Polish international.

It looked like Arsene Wenger would have to spend at least £10 million of his summer transfer budget on a new number one and there was speculation that Szczesny would leave the club after seven years. Since then, though, he has done everything right, starting with completely distancing himself from his father’s comments about Arsenal and the French manager. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal are currently leading the race for the coveted Third Place in the Premiership, which guarantees direct entry into the Group Stages of the Champions League, but after yesterday’s results they are just one point ahead of Chelsea and two ahead of Spurs.

The race is still far from over though as both teams below them have a game in hand, and the Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas believes that his Tottenham team are now in control of their fate once again.

He said after yesterday’s incredible last-gasp fight-back against Manchester City: “It was very important for us to come back. It means we are now in control because we have a game in hand on Arsenal — and that game in hand is against Chelsea. .......Read the full article here

The Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas looks to be presiding over yet another Spurs capitulation at the end of the season, and has seen Arsenal steadily close the gap to the Top Four.

The Gunners are now sitting just two points behind Tottenham with a game in hand and are on a great winning run. AVB thinks that Arsenal’s experience of coming back from the dead has given Wenger’s team the advantage.

He said: “The reality is that Arsenal feel their belief is because they finish seasons’ very strongly and that belief helps them,” .......Read the full article here

It would obviously have been one of Arsene Wenger’s most painful moments of the season watching Arsenal put in arguably their worst performance of the season at White Hart Lane at the start of March. Not only was it a blow in the race for the top four, but it gave everybody connected with the Spuds, and most of the media, to continue with their anti-Arsenal garbage, using one lucky win to apparently `prove` that we had lost our position of dominance. .......Read the full article here

The North London derby was a painful day for Arsenal, there’s no doubt about it. The rubbish that the Tottenham players and manager started spouting afterwards was even worse. AVB claimed that the Gunners would be locked into a spiral of depression and defeat that would see their grip on the top four place strengthen. The players were saying they had beaten us easily and talking about a transfer of power in North London, and the media were happily joining in. .......Read the full article here

Arsenal are in a downward spiral and will struggle to get out of it claims the croaky voiced manager of Tottemham. The defeat at White Hart Lane on Sunday has broken the spirit of the Gunners while Tottenham are sitting on top of the world, apparently. I’m sure that Villas-Boas would love that to be true, but I very much doubt he really believes it. What he is trying to do is boost his players’ confidence more in an attempt to avoid a repeat of last season’s choke by the Spuds.

“We are on an upward spiral in terms of confidence and they are on a negative spiral in terms of results. To get out of that negative spiral is extremely difficult.” .......Read the full article here

The last time Arsenal played Tottenham was back in mid-November, and turned out to0 be a very good day indeed for the Gunners. Andre Villas-Boas opted for a fairly attacking line up with both Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor starting. It began well for Spurs, with both strikers being involved in the early goal. Then a moment of madness from Adebayor got him sent off and Arsenal dominated the match and smashed five goals in. .......Read the full article here

Sorry to break this to you, Arsenal fans, but we were totally outplayed by Tottenham yesterday, according to the Spurs boss Andres Villas-Boas. He must be allergic to points, then, because his Spurs side controlled their way out of winning any.

“We were in control from the first minute to the last. It’s very easy to go and do 20, 25 passes against an opponent with 10 men plating three at the back.

“I don’t think the sending off changed the running of the game. We looked in control apart from, I believe, 10 minutes from half time, which for me are the decisive moments.” .......Read the full article here

The ex-Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor famously annoyed all the Arsenal fans when he over-celebrated his goal for Manchester City after he left the Gunners, and the Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas is hoping that the taunts from the home crowd will propel Adebayor into another supreme performance against his former club.

AVB said: “I suggest to make the most of the situation we can use individual’s motivations and that is why we used Adebayor also in the game versus City last week. These are things that you have to count on.” .......Read the full article here