A St Totteringham's Day Diary.

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Fri, 04 Apr 2025

Happy (day after) St Totteringham's day!

Chelsea managed to stay 1-0 up and so St Totteringham's Day 2025 was April 3rd.

Some quick facts:

• It is the 54th time the festival has been celebrated, since the first one back in 1911.
• It is the 33rd April St T's.
• There have been two previous 3rd April St Ts, in 1988 and 1991. For younger readers we won the league with only one defeat in 1991.
• This makes a run of 3 years. This is the fifth time there has been a run of at least 3 years. It'd be more but for Spur's dalliances in the second tier.
• Earliest St Ts for a few years: you have to go back to 9th March 2009 for an earlier one.

More info is available at history page, in particular there is a summary of how often Arsenal have finished above Spurs.

Enjoy chatting with Spurs fans at work today!

(By the way an email correspondent has pointed out what I wish I could pass off as an April fools day joke in my reporting the Fulham score. Oops.)

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Thu, 03 Apr 2025

It could be the day...

As I write this Spurs are losing 1-0 at Chelsea with fifteen minutes to go.

I say 1-0, with the VAR lottery it could be 2-0, 2-1 or 1-1.

If it remains this way, or even if Spurs manage a draw then St Totteringham's will be today: 3rd April 2025.

I'll do an update in the morning either way.

PS I had an email pointing out that I should have said next time Arsenal win or draw it'd be St Ts if we don't get the result today, rather than just the next time they win. They are quite correct. However it looks like it won't come to that.

PPS now 81 minutes in... still 1-0.

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Tue, 01 Apr 2025

Arsenal 1 Fulham 2: The Saint Warms Up

A good result this evening. Great to see Saka back and scoring too.

It isn't quite St Totteringham's Day however

So Arsenal are now 27 ahead, and Spurs have 9 to play. They could catch us if we lose every game and they win every game:

	Games	Points	Points behind	(games left)	(max points)
Arsenal	30	61
Spurs	29	34	27	(27)	(61)

What we need:

• If Spurs lose or draw on Thursday it is St Ts.
• If they do beat Chelsea the next time we win, or they draw or lose will be St Ts.

Next few fixtures:

Thu 3rd Apr                        Chelsea v Spurs
Sat 5th Apr   Everton v Arsenal
Sun 6th Apr                        Spurs v Southampton
Sat 12th Apr  Arsenal v Brentford
Sun 13th Apr                       Wolves v Spurs
Sun 20th Apr  Ipswich v Arsenal 

Won't be long now!

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Sun, 16 Mar 2025

North versus South London

Two North-South London Derbies today, both going as we would hope! Well played Merino, and thanks to Fulham for a solid win.

So Arsenal are now 24 ahead with 9 to play:

	Games	Points	Points behind	(games left)	(max points)
Arsenal	29	58
Spurs	29	34	24	(27)	(61)

(In case you are wondering why I haven't updated since the 12th February it is because our league form was so bad...)

So come April fools day Arsenal play Fulham, and two days later Spurs travel to Chelsea for part 2 of North v South. That is an annoying wait as those fixtures could spell St T's day in early April.

What we need:

• If Arsenal beat Fulham then we will have 61 points which Spurs can only match. If Spurs then draw or lose on the Thursday it will be St Ts on 3rd April.
• If we draw, then it will be St Ts on the Thursday the 3rd only if Spurs lose.
• If we lose it drags on until at least the 5th of April. This is also true Spurs beat Chelsea.
• We need four points: A win and a draw for us is all that is needed before the end of the season.
• Alternatively Spurs cannot drop four points, so they cannot afford not to win two more matches this season.

I'll do an update after that game, but remember even if we win it isn't St Ts until Spurs cannot catch us!

Next few fixtures:

Tue 1st Apr   Arsenal v Fulham
Thu 3rd Apr                        Chelsea v Spurs
Sat 5th Apr   Everton v Arsenal
Sun 6th Apr                        Spurs v Southampton
Sat 12th Apr  Arsenal v Brentford
Sun 13th Apr                       Wolves v Spurs

PS I've removed the twitter/X links as twitter is not somewhere I have been in years, and don't plan on ever returning to.

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Wed, 12 Feb 2025

So far so good...

This season could have an early St T's compared to recent years.

On the 12th February, as I write this, Arsenal are a mere 23 points ahead of Spurs. Spurs have 14 games left to make up that gap. To put mhy usual table in...

	Games	Points	Points behind	(games left)	(max points)
Arsenal	24	50
Spurs	24	27	23	(14)	(69)

To be sure of finishing above them we need to get to 70 points. So just 20 points and we will have St T's day. Of course Spurs could lose some games too, if they drop 20 they can't catch us.

The quickest it could happen would be if Spurs lost their next three and we won our next four. It won't happen, but it's nice to think about it...

Watch this space over the next few weeks!

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