A St Totteringham's Day Diary.

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Thu, 21 May 2026

Champions of England 2025-6

Well played Arsenal. I have almost stopped bouncing with excitement.

This year saw the earliest St Totteringham's by every measure: earliest date (1st March), fewest games (28) and lowest proportion of games (73.7%).

Seeing our players celebrate the league title was a welcome site to me. It's been a long time since we celebrated a league title. In fact it has been the lifespan of this website: 2003/4 was the first season I did the tally.

Only two questions of interest to Arsenal fans left this season: a small cup final, and could next year be a year off due to Spurs being engaged elsewhere.

Sadly, it is extremely unlikely Spurs will go down, bookies odds and Opta predictions suggest it is around 1 in 6 or 7 chance. Fun to think about though.

Oh, I'm here to say I've updated the history page.

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Sun, 01 Mar 2026

Happy St Totteringham's Day 2026

We have a new record: 1st March 2026.

Thanks to Fulham's efforts this afternoon we can now celebrate the earliest ever date for St Totteringham's day.

The last record date was 9th March 2008.

This is the ninth March St Ts: 1935, 1959, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008 were the first eight.

This is equalling the lowest number of games in a 38 game season of 28 Arsenal games with 13th March 2004 (a season where we went on to win the league at WHL.)

Happy St Ts to all Gooners!

I'll update the stats section at some point soon!

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Don't count chickens yet...

Richarlison gets one of the three... but Spurs need two more to make the Chelsea game count for St Ts.

Fulham 2 (H. Wilson 7, A. Iwobi 34) Spurs 1 (Richarlison 66)

Arsenal P28 61pts
Spurs   P28 29pts -- max points would be 59

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Half time

Spurs need three goals in 45 minutes to avoid a record breaking St Totteringham's day.

Fulham 2 (H. Wilson 7, A. Iwobi 34) Spurs 0

Arsenal P28 61pts
Spurs   P28 29pts -- max points would be 59

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Once a Gunner always a Gunner...

Alex Iwobi (who else) scores a second. And it sounds like Spurs don't want to score...

Fulham 2 (H. Wilson 7, A. Iwobi 34) Spurs 0

Arsenal P28 61pts
Spurs   P28 29pts -- max points would be 59

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Looking good...

Fulham take an early lead against Spurs.

Fulham 2 (H. Wilson 7) Spurs 0

Arsenal P28 61pts
Spurs   P28 29pts -- max points would be 59

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It could be today..?

A reminder that...

• If Spurs draw or lose at Fulham or
• Arsenal win against Chelsea, then

This has come to the notice of the BBC who have a nice article about it. It points out we could be on for a record gap between the clubs come May too.

Fingers crossed for a good result at the Cottage.

PS a win today also means we beat Leeds Utd this season due to yesterday's loss to City.

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Mon, 23 Feb 2026

End of February update

Due to Wolves and Brentford, St Totteringham's didn't happen on Sunday, but there is still a good chance of a record year.

	Games	Points	Points behind	(games left)	(max points)	(Points Needed/Date beaten)
Arsenal	28	61
Spurs	27	29	32	(11)	(62)	(2)
Forest	27	27	34	(11)	(60)	22nd February
West Ham	27	25	36	(11)	(58)	22nd February

I didn't do an update after the disappointments of last week, apologies.

So when might St Ts be? The next few games are...

Mar 1st        Arsenal  v Chelsea             Fulham v Spurs
Mar 4th        Brighton v Arsenal
Mar 5th                                       Spurs v Palace
Mar 9th           Current record for earliest St Ts (2008)

Don't want to count chickens but it looks quite possible that a new record may be set this year.

In other news both West Ham and Forest joined Burnley and Wolves in can't catch us territory on Sunday. Spurs will be next, and Leeds are the next in our targets.

By the way I take no pleasure in being right.

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North London is Red...

... but it ain't St Totteringhams yet.

Wolves and Brentford stole our chance of a February St Ts and also gave our slack at the top of the table a bit of a bash, but top of the table is a good place to be.

Full update later today: short version 2 more points. Arsenal win, Spurs lose or draw.

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Wed, 11 Feb 2026

Maybe I am wrong...

Last nights game for Spurs was a big one for the Saint: I thought it was Spurs best shot of making the NLD not the decider, bluntly because the Geordies have been poor away from home. How could I underestimate how poor Spurs are this year? I now think I am wrong and the shiny website might be right about 22-February...

	Games	Points	Points behind	(games left)	(max points)	(Points Needed/Date beaten)
Arsenal	25	56
Spurs	26	29	27	(12)	(65)	(10)
West Ham	26	24	32	(12)	(60)	(5)

To get to St Ts we need ten more points, but the head to head game counts double as any points we get counts against Spurs. If we lose it we'd need to find ten points, which is likely to be in March. If we draw we gain one and Spurs drop 2, so we'd need seven more. This is also likely to be in March. We'd need to win, which would be a change of 6 points. Leaving four to get.

Our next few league games:

Thurs 12-Feb   Brentford (A)
Weds  18-Feb   Wolves (A)
Sun   22-Feb   North London Derby at Spurs

If we don't get four points from Brentford and Wolves we have bigger problems with out title challenge to worry about!

If we do get four (or more) points then we have a chance of a double celebration in February this year. Blimey.

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