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Eberechi Eze has fired a couple of shots at Tottenham Hotspur, joking that he made the right choice to join Arsenal and that his favourite moment of the season came against their local rivals.

As if watching Arsenal win the Premier League wasn’t bad enough for Spurs fans, they’ve also had to endure Eberechi Eze rubbing it in a bit over the last few days.

In the immediate aftermath of Arsenal’s final-day win over Crystal Palace and subsequent trophy lift, Eze was sarcastically asked by Lee Dixon whether he made the right decision joining the Gunners over 17th-placed Spurs.

Eze laughed in response, before composing himself to say: “I’m pretty sure. I’m pretty sure I did.”

To further rub salt in the wounds, Eze then said in an interview with Sky Sports that his favourite moment of the season actually came in a match against Spurs.

“The second game against Tottenham,” Eze responded. “The first game, of course, hat-trick’s incredible and I know that’s a special moment.

“But the second game, I think because of the lead-up into that, personally. What I was going through, the momentum, and the phase that I was in. For me, that game was like a big shift.

“I felt that in myself, in the team as well. For me, that’s probably my favourite moment.”

Though Eze could only manage a brace away at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, compared to his hat-trick at the Emirates, his answer nonetheless makes sense.

At the Emirates, Eze came into the game already holding a starting role in the Arsenal team. But before for the away game, Eze had only started one of the previous 11 league matches – and he’d been subbed off at half-time on that occasion.

So Eze went away to Spurs with a point to prove, in front of the home supporters who had so vehemently turned on him following his decision to reject them and his subsequent hat-trick against them.

With Arsenal winning 4-1 once again, and Eze winning back his spot in the lineup, it’s not hard to see why it felt so good.

Arsenal were marking their first league title in 22 years, while Tottenham’s players were out after avoiding relegation on the final day.

Arsenal and Tottenham players reportedly ended up partying together in central London after the final day of the Premier League season, with the two north London rivals marking very different ends to the campaign.

For Mikel Arteta’s side, the night followed the formal trophy lift at Selhurst Park, where Arsenal celebrated their first league title in 22 years.

For Tottenham, the emotion was relief rather than glory after they avoided relegation on the final day.

According to SunSport, Arsenal’s players began their celebrations at the Mediterranean restaurant Bacchanalia in Mayfair, where non-playing staff, backroom employees, training-ground staff, families and friends were invited to join the squad.

The venue was all-but closed to the public, allowing Arsenal’s players and staff to celebrate privately after a demanding season that ended with the club back at the top of English football.

Luis Dunford sang The Angel, while Declan Rice lead a sing-along to ‘Rice Rice Baby”, although it’s not clear at what ven’.

Some of the squad later moved on to Bagatelle, before heading to Tape nightclub, where they reportedly crossed paths with Tottenham players, who were also out after the final round of fixtures.

Despite the rivalry between the clubs, “SunSport was told both sets of players partied together into the early hours of the Bank Holiday morning.”

I’m sure the Spurs’ fans will love those images if they ever come out.

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Oliver Glasner has congratulated Arsenal, Mikel Arteta, and Eberechi Eze on their Premier League title success, but his comments might not make Spurs fans too happy.

Speaking ahead of Arsenal’s match away to Crystal Palace this weekend, Palace boss Oliver Glasner gave his congratulations to the club, manager Mikel Arteta, and former Palace player Eberechi Eze.

“I want to congratulate Arsenal, Mikel Arteta, his players & staff for winning the title after 22 years,” Glasner said. “It’s a fantastic job he’s done.

“A special congratulations to Eberechi Eze, he made the right decision to go to Arsenal and not another club.”

Though the comments sound innocent enough, they’re unlikely to go down well with Tottenham Hotspur supporters.

When Glasner mentions that Eze joined Arsenal rather than “another club”, the other club in question is very clearly Spurs. The Gunners midfielder was heavily linked with a move to Tottenham up until Kai Havertz’s injury pushed Arsenal into the market, at which point Spurs’ chances disappeared.

It’s pretty inarguable that Eze made the right choice to join Arsenal, given he already has a Premier League title under his belt, with a Champions League final coming up next weekend.

Spurs sit 17th, two points above the relegation zone and still at risk of the drop on the final day.

Eze undoubtedly would have helped Spurs avoid their current position, but there’s little chance his impact would have been sufficient to lift them above Arsenal.

There will be no regrets on Eze’s end, but perhaps Spurs fans will feel a little aggrieved that Glasner had to point that out.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Roberto De Zerbi has insisted that the decision to disallow West Ham United’s goal against Arsenal was ‘200%’ correct.

It’s not often that a Tottenham Hotspur manager will defend a decision that favours rivals Arsenal, but that’s exactly what Roberto De Zerbi did on Monday night.

De Zerbi had just seen his team scrape a draw at home to Leeds United, and he suggested that both the referee and his team had felt the pressure of the previous day’s game between West Ham and Arsenal.

Yet the manager added that he can’t understand why there was so much focus on the officiating in the Arsenal match, insisting the foul on David Raya was clear.

“I think [the referees] were not calm today,” De Zerbi said. “Maybe they suffer the pressure of yesterday, West Ham-Arsenal game. The VAR.

“For sure, we suffer the pressure today. But also, the referee was not calm today.

“I can’t understand the polemic about yesterday’s VAR [decision] because it was a foul, 200%. Not 100%, 200%, if you want to speak about football.”

It’s fair to point out that Spurs had a vested interest in the West Ham goal being disallowed, given the Hammers are their direct rivals in the current relegation scrap.

For once, it was probably a good thing for Spurs to see Arsenal winning a game, meaning De Zerbi wasn’t an entirely neutral party in this case.

But there was no necessity to defend the decision after the fact, with West Ham’s points already dropped. No one was going to give the Hammers their disallowed goal back if De Zerbi said VAR made a mistake. So De Zerbi’s comments are likely his genuine opinion on the incident.

Regardless of the reasons why, Spurs certainly saw an opportunity go begging against Leeds on Monday. A win would have put them on the verge of safety, but they now need four points or more from their final two games to guarantee their top-flight status.

Coventry City fans debuted a new chant during their weekend win, and it’s proving a lot more popular with Arsenal fans than Tottenham Hotspur supporters.

Coventry City have wrapped up the Championship title this season, and they already know they’re guaranteed a spot in next season’s Premier League.

As a result, perhaps Wrexham visited the West Midlands on Sunday with the greater motivation, given they’re still playing for a spot in the promotion play-offs.

Yet Coventry ended up winning 3-1 anyway, boosting their points total and damaging Wrexham’s promotion chances.

Coventry fans took the opportunity to rub it in, singing “we’re going Arsenal, you’re going Spurs!” in the direction of the Wrexham support.

Tottenham Hotspur are obviously facing the very real threat of relegation from the Premier League, and if Wrexham fail to achieve promotion then they genuinely could be taking on a second-tier match against Spurs in 2026/27.

But Arsenal fans on social media certainly enjoyed the chant, with one writing “damn, found a second team to support next season”, another saying “probably my favourite vid of the season”, and one more saying simply “outstanding”.

Wrexham’s fate as a Championship club in 2026/27 is far from sealed, as they head into the final week of the regular season in sixth (the final play-off place), level on points with seventh-place Hull City with a one-goal advantage on goal difference.

But Wrexham take on fourth-place Middlesbrough in their final game, whilst Hull play ninth-place Norwich City – who have already missed out on the play-offs.

It’s going to be difficult for Wrexham to better Hull’s result, but they need to do so if they’re going to keep their promotion hopes alive.

Tottenham Hotspur have suffered a new blow in their fight to avoid relegation from the Premier League, with Xavi Simons tearing his ACL.

Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed that Xavi Simons has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, suffering the injury setback during their match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at the weekend.

Simons will now need surgery to fix the problem, with the expectation that he’ll miss not just the remainder of the season, but also the summer World Cup, and the rest of Spurs’ club football in 2026.

To compound their woes, Dominic Solanke also suffered an injury at the weekend, with Roberto De Zerbi confirming it’s “a muscular injury”. The manager claimed it’s “not a big problem”, but added “I don’t know how many games we lose him”.

Given Spurs’ current situation, even losing Solanke for just a couple of games would be a major blow.

With just four games remaining, Spurs sit in the relegation zone, two points behind West Ham United in 17th. They still have to travel away to Aston Villa and Chelsea in their final four matches, as well as facing fellow relegation battlers Leeds United and Europe-chasing Everton at home.

West Ham also have some tricky games coming up, playing away to Brentford and Newcastle United, and facing Arsenal and Leeds at home.

It looks like this relegation scrap could go down to the wire, and even Nottingham Forest (five points clear of Spurs but with games against Chelsea, Newcastle, Manchester United, and Bournemouth to come) can’t consider themselves safe just yet.

If Solanke is indeed sidelined for Spurs’ next game against Villa, he’ll join Simons, Wilson Odobert, Mohammed Kudus, Dejan Kulusevski, and Cristian Romero in missing the match.

Guglielmo Vicario, Ben Davies, Destiny Udogie, and Pape Matar Sarr are also doubts, but it’s possible they could make their comebacks at Villa Park.

Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League survival hopes suffered multiple blows over the weekend, beyond just their defeat to Sunderland.

It’s fair to say the last few days haven’t boosted Tottenham Hotspur’s chances of remaining in the Premier League whatsoever.

Defeat to Sunderland in Roberto De Zerbi’s first game in charge was certainly not great, but it was made worse by West Ham United’s 4-0 win over Wolves, Nottingham Forest picking up a big point against Aston Villa, and Leeds United beating Manchester United at Old Trafford.

All of Spurs’ relegation rivals gained on them, with Leeds now six points ahead, Forest three ahead and West Ham two ahead.

Even before all of those games were played, Spurs had suffered a blow to morale with the news that Mohammed Kudus has suffered an injury setback and may require surgery.

But it only got worse on Sunday, as Cristian Romero also picked up an injury against Sunderland, and Sami Mokbel has since reported for the BBC that the defender is out for the rest of the season with knee injury.

Romero has a high-grade partial tear of his medial cruciate ligament, and he’ll miss up to eight weeks of action.

Spurs will now prepare for a game against Brighton, who closed the gap to the European places over the weekend with a win over Burnley. As it stands, Brighton are six points off the Champions League places, two points off the Europa League spot, and one point off the Europa Conference League.

Fabian Hurzeler’s side are unlikely to come to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium looking for anything other than their fourth Premier League win in a row.

Meanwhile, Leeds will play bottom club Wolves and Nottingham Forest will play 19th-placed Burnley. West Ham have to play away to Crystal Palace, but the Hammers will be riding a high after that 4-0 victory last week.

Nothing seems to be going Spurs’ way at the moment. What a shame.

Tottenham Hotspur have become the laughing stock of English football this week, with Jack Wilshere and Lincoln City joining in with the jokes in recent days.

Tottenham Hotspur’s latest defeat to Crystal Palace has left them at serious risk of relegation, sitting just one point clear of the relegation zone with nine games to play.

It didn’t help that relegation rivals Nottingham Forest picked up a surprising point away to Manchester City on Wednesday, nor that West Ham United are on the rise after four wins and two draws in their last eight league games.

Spurs will also have to do without Micky van de Ven for their upcoming trip away to Champions League hopefuls Liverpool, as the Dutch centre-back picked up a red card in the Palace defeat.

Cristian Romero will return from his four-match ban, but he himself is only two yellow cards away from another two-match suspension.

Like Spurs, League One leaders Lincoln City look increasingly likely to be in the Championship next season, 10 points clear of third place having played a game less.

With promotion seriously on the cards, their fans took to singing “Tottenham away, olé, olé” on Saturday.

Former Gunner Jack Wilshere was also involved in the banter in a press conference on Friday, saying: “I watched a little bit of Tottenham last night…believe it or not a lot of my family are Tottenham fans, and over the years we had some really good banter about it.

“At the moment my dream is to manage Luton in the Championship, and it might be against Tottenham.”

Looking at the games Spurs have left to play doesn’t really help their case.

There are trips to Liverpool, Sunderland, Aston Villa, and Chelsea, as well as an away game against Wolves that doesn’t look nearly as straightforward as it might have a couple of months ago.

The home games are against relegation rivals Nottingham Forest and Leeds United, a Brighton side showing recent signs of improvement, and an Everton clash on the final day.

But whilst most of those home fixtures look winnable, they’ll all be doubly damaging should Spurs slip up. And there’s hardly one guaranteed result in the away schedule.

Even the Champions League run, a rare positive in Spurs’ campaign so far, could end up being a distraction. The upcoming games away to Liverpool and at home to Forest will both come after fixtures against Atletico Madrid, and a quarter-final would mean more games against Barcelona or Newcastle.

Tottenham Hotspur are unimpressed and considering taking action against their new academy scout Neros Coachman, following comments by the Arsenal fan on social media.

New Tottenham Hotspur academy scout Neros Coachman recently posted on social media to share that he’d been hired by the north London club, admitting that he’d always been an Arsenal fan prior to the appointment.

“You know the project’s good when you’re a boyhood Arsenal fan and you switch sides,” Coachman joked in the caption.

Perhaps the Spurs fanbase would have let that bit of humour slide, but the scout’s subsequent comments ended up going viral on social media.

When one commenter responded “do not let that badge touch your skin”, Coachman wrote back “I’ve already got the base layer”.

In response to an Arsenal fan saying “we need someone on the inside”, Coachman replied “shhhhhh”. And replying to a question about how he brought himself to wear Spurs merchandise, Coachman answered “it was tough”.

Unfortunately, Mike Keegan reports for the Daily Mail that Spurs are deeply unimpressed by the jokes, taking a dim view and considering further action. They’re planning to take care of the matter in-house.

You wouldn’t think Spurs fans would be so upset by having an Arsenal fan on the scouting team, considering they recently had ‘silver member’ Thomas Frank as a manager, and the likes of Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke have openly admitted to supporting the Gunners in the past.

All joking aside, most players, coaches, and staff are able to put aside their fan allegiances to do their job.

The Daily Cannon understands that there’s a high percentage of Arsenal fans on the Spurs staff behind the scenes, but that’s just the way it goes. They can’t all work for Arsenal, and the clubs are so close together geographically that switching to Spurs means not needing to relocate.

That said, it’s probably smart to keep the jokes to the private group chats.

Arsenal achieved the earliest ‘St. Totteringham’s Day’ in history on Sunday, but the Gunners still have one more record to try and break in the final nine games.

As covered early last week, Arsenal had the opportunity to confirm their earliest-ever finish over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, excluding seasons where the two clubs didn’t play in the same division.

The Gunners needed either a win over Chelsea, or for Spurs to fail to beat Fulham. In the end, Arsenal didn’t need to wait until their 16:30 kick-off, with Spurs themselves losing to confirm their failure to finish above the Gunners.

That result made March 1st the new record earliest date of ‘St. Totteringham’s Day’, the day invented by Arsenal fans for when they confirm a finish above their north London rivals.

But it also meant the Gunners achieved the feat with 10 games to play, a joint record shared with the 2003/04 ‘Invincibles’ side. Sky Sports rounded up the previous earliest dates in the graphic below:

Arsenal still have one more north London rivalry record in their sights, with the Gunners having the chance to achieve their greatest-ever points difference over Spurs at the conclusion of the season.

The current record stands at 45 points, again achieved by the 2003/04 team playing under Arsene Wenger.

Mikel Arteta’s side sit 35 points clear of Spurs, having played a game more. So it’s still possible for Arsenal to finish 46+ points ahead of Igor Tudor’s side, but both teams will need to keep picking up the same kinds of results they have been for the remainder of the campaign.

Arsenal’s primary focus is obviously on winning trophies, and they’ll value a Premier League title far more than a record-breaking finish above Spurs.

But given the way to achieve those two ends is just to keep winning matches, there’s no harm in hoping for both.