St Totteringham's Day

The blame
Mostly written by Mike Pitt. You can contact me by email on mike-stt@einval.com. Nice comments only please.
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St Totteringham's Day was the day when Arsenal fans celebrate the fact that Tottenham can no longer catch Arsenal in the League. It is a movable feast, but usually falls in March, April or May. It was the day to collect on bets made by over-optimistic Spurs fans in the close season who think that "this is the year".

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Sat, 07 Feb 2026

A good win over Sunderland and United help us out

A good Saturday for Arsenal. Spurs lose, Villa draw and we win comfortably at home.

So the important bit

Games Points Points behind (games left) (max points) (Points Needed/Date beaten)
Arsenal 25 56
Spurs 25 29 27 (13) (68) (13)
West Ham 25 23 33 (13) (62) (7)
Burnley 25 15 41 (13) (54) (7-Feb-26)

Burnley join Wolves as teams we have now beaten in the league and West Ham are the next target. We need at least two rounds of games to catch them, and given the form they are in it could be more.

Spurs seem determined to be dragged into the quagmire just above the bottom three. It is great fun to watch, but they must surely have enough to survive..?

Also a note. There is a newer, shinier site which is great fun but it predicts St Ts as being 22nd February. This would be astounding if it happens. It won't, and it'd smash the record for St Ts if it did. (If it does I'll happily admit I'm wrong here probably on the 23rd.) My money is on early to mid March, which would still be very early. (I also think they've borrowed some of my calculations, if so a credit would be appreciated!)

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Sat, 31 Jan 2026

A good win at Leeds

Leeds have never been a favourite of mine, so I enjoyed today's comfortable win quite a bit. Hopefully Saka will recover quickly, but well played to the team: we didn't miss him today.

Ahead of Spurs game tomorrow (when for once a win might be acceptable to me!) the key info is...

Games Points Points behind (games left) (max points) (Points Needed/Date beaten)
Arsenal 24 53
Spurs 23 28 25 (15) (73) (21)
Burnley 23 15 38 (15) (60) (8)
Wolves 24 8 45 (14) (50) (31-Jan-26)

Looks like I made an error in my last post, and gifted Spurs an extra point. We now need seven Arsenal wins, or seven Spurs defeats.

I also point out we have finally guaranteed that we will finish above Wolves this season. Burnley will be next in our targets! We need three results here, so it could be fairly soon. Oddly both Burnley and our next league game is Sunderland.

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Thu, 22 Jan 2026

Happy January and Welcome Back

Slightly earlier than last year I have dusted off the blog and got the diary ready. There are two obvious reasons:

1. Arsenal are playing good stuff and are top of the league

2. Tottenham are a steaming pile of Hotspur. (Thanks to Red Dwarf for that line)

The key information

Games Points Points behind (games left) (max points) (Points Needed)
Arsenal 22 50
Spurs 22 29 21 (16) (77) (28)
Wolves 22 8 42 (16) (56) (7)
We need another 28 points from our last 16 games to finish ahead of Spurs. I include Wolves to point out that at the moment even they can theoretically finish above us. When we start ticking clubs off the list I'll update the blog. Looking at Wolves we need 7 points, so it should be fairly soon now, although possibly we will need to do it ourselves given Wolves recent recovery.

Fingers crossed for a good performance this weekend.

Stats Update: I've tidied up most of the analysis section on the history page, including putting a date in each section for when it was updated and valid. I've also updated nearly all of it.

Boring update: I've disabled all the analytics on this site, so there shouldn't be any cookies/tracking.

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