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St Totteringham's Day is 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 is 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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Sun, 24 Feb 2013
Next match is vital: Spurs away
Being honest if we have any chance of a St T's this year we simply have
to win at White Hart Lane next weekend. Given the nature of the 5-2 win
earlier this season, and our performance against Villa yesterday, our
best hope would be if another Spurs player behaves like Adebyaor did and
gets themself red carded early on.
If that doesn't happen it could be grim.
In the meantime we need West Ham to beat Spurs on Monday. If they do then we can overhaul them by winning at their place. Which would be very pleasant, if unlikely. Best case is we'll be two ahead with 10 to go.
If on the other hand West Ham fold against Spurs, and we lose at the lane, then the worst case is Spurs being seven ahead with ten to play. Thats a big gap. (It's what QPR have to overcome to catch Wigan and Villa.)
Not impossible, but we rely (again) on a Spurs meltdown.
Still some consolation: we did win the League at WHL in '71 and '04. Which means we've won it at their place as many times as they've won it at all.
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Sun, 03 Feb 2013
Still behind with thirteen to go...
As I start writing this it is into injury time at the WBA v Spurs game,
with Spurs leading 1-0. That will give them back their four point lead
that we reduced to one overnight.
So we remain chasing them down. Whilst I'd normally be confident in Spurs having a collapse between now and the end of the season, I'm now also sure that so will Arsenal. The question is who will have the worse collapse.
Four points isn't a huge gap for this stage of the season, so we might still have a St Ts... fingers crossed etc.
The whistle has gone.
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Wed, 02 Jan 2013
Happy New Year?
Happy 2013 from the St Totteringham's Day Diary. When will the feast fall this
year, or will we be facing our first fallow year in almost two decades?
Watch this space to find out...
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Sun, 18 Nov 2012
Deja-vu all over again
Spurs ahead in the table. Arsenal not playing well. Spurs come to our
place and take the lead. And blow it. And the game ends 5-2
Lots of differences of course, but a huge thank you to Adebayor for the stupidest challenge I've seen in ages. Thankfully Cazorla could dodge it.
So we're ahead of them again. No table as it is a long way to go and there are unlikely to be updates for some time...
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Sun, 04 Nov 2012
Well at least the scoreline was respectable
So here we are at the start of November, traditionally a tricky month
for Arsenal.
I don't think anyone thinks we are in a title race, but we are in a race for Wenger's "Fourth Place Trophy", and so we need to finish above Spurs more than ever...
At the moment we are two points behind them. Nothing to be too afraid of, but not a gap we want stretching.
I'll update the page every few months until we get to the business end of the season.
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Another new season
It is still way too early to worry about St Totteringham's day this year, but
I have added a link to the new season to the side bar, and you should see the
first placeholder article Real Soon Now(tm).
I am afraid I still haven't done anything about cookies: be aware I am still using google analytics to track hits.
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Fri, 15 Jun 2012
Cookies and stuff
The law on tracking and cookies and so on has changed.
Just a word to say that I use Google analytics to track visitors to the
site, and they probably use cookies. At some point I'll check.
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Tue, 15 May 2012
The latest ever St Totteringham's
I've been updating the analysis
page and I've spotted a few random facts.
- This year, due to the late end to the season, is a new record for the latest in the year St Totteringham's has fallen. May 13th, beats the previous record of May 12th from 1983/4.
- It is the tenth May St Totteringham's.
- It is the ninth final match St Totteringham's.
- Our run of finishing above Spurs is now 17 years, during which time we have had four last day St Ts. Mind you, two of those have been in the last 3 years.
Have a good summer, and when the season fires up again I'll be back.
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Sun, 13 May 2012
Happy St Totteringham's Day
Well it was a topsy-turvy game, and we again blew a lead, and again had
to come from behind, but our 3-2 victory over West Bromwich
Albion means that for the SEVENTEENTH season in a
row we have finished above Spurs.
Arsenal need to do something about the team in the Summer, but for now we can celebrate being the best team in London over the season.
| Games | Points | GD | Points behind | (games left) | (max points) | |
| Arsenal | 38 | 70 | +25 | |||
| Spurs | 38 | 69 | +25 | 1 | 0 | 69 |
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Sun, 06 May 2012
So, going into the final weekend...
The "after you, I insist" nature of the hunt for CL places continues.
Arsenal give a woeful performances against Norwich and only manage a
draw, then Spurs slip up at Villa and Newcastle lose to City. So despite
our dreadful performance, one that definitely fell into the "already on
holiday" camp I mentioned in an earlier post, we are still in the
driving seat. Indeed despite picking up only 3 points from our last
five games we, somehow, still have St Totteringham's in our hands. The
final day games Arsenal at WBA, and Spurs at home to Fulham, are huge.
It will be St Totteringham's day next Sunday if...
- Arsenal win, no matter what happens at WHL
- Spurs lose, no matter what happens at the Hawthorns
- Arsenal and Spurs draw
- Arsenal lose by only one goal and Spurs draw, provided Spurs don't score 8 goals more than Arsenal. (So if we lose 3-4, Spurs would beat us with a 12-12 draw.)
St Totteringham's won't happen if Spurs do better than Arsenal, with the bottom exception. That simple.
Clear?
Anyway here is the table, complete with added Geordies
| Games | Points | GD | Points behind | (games left) | (max points) | |
| Arsenal | 37 | 67 | +24 | |||
| Spurs | 37 | 66 | +23 | 1 | (1) | (69) |
| Newcastle Utd | 37 | 65 | +7 | 2 | (1) | (68) |
To beat Newcastle we just need to draw or better. If we draw I can't see Newcastle overturning a 17 goal deficit!
So fingers crossed, and let us hope Spurs have Lasagne again.
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