FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES

A fair bit of what youngsters call "Banter" flying around about the merits of that club on the Seven Sisters Road. Earlier in the season when they were going to win the league, the perception was that they need not concern themselves with the trials and tribulations of Arsenal Football Club, but now that they have slowly slid down the league table they have lazily gone to their default happy place of making comparisons.

As we all know, they are perennial victims of premature elation, and when that bubble inevitably bursts they revert to type. With that in mind I thought rather than getting into pointless debate I would just present some facts:

Since winning the league

• Spurs 60 years (2)
• Arsenal 17 years (13)

Since winning the FA Cup

• Spurs 23 years (8)
• Arsenal 6 months (14)

Since winning a European Trophy

• Spurs 37 years (3)
• Arsenal 27 years (2)

Since winning a trophy of any kind

• Spurs 13 years (League Cup)
• Arsenal 6 months (FA Cup)

Head to head

• Spurs won 60
• Arsenal won 77

Combined trophies

• Spurs 17
• Arsenal 31

There you are, a handy Cut Out and Keep Argument Ender© for those tiresome debates with Spurs fans.