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Manchester City began the evening in party mood, celebrating Rodri's Ballon d'Or win and Pep Guardiola's new contract. But the atmosphere soon began to resemble that of a funeral as Tottenham ripped their hosts apart, inflicting a fifth consecutive defeat on the champions.

James Maddison scored twice in the first half with the help of some criminal defending from Josko Gvardiol and City never recovered. Erling Haaland was at his wasteful worst, while Ilkay Gundogan could not handle the intensity of the game, with Dejan Kulusevski running the show.

Pedro Porro smashed in a third goal and in the last minute, substitute Brennan Johnson added a fourth, making it City's heaviest home defeat under Guardiola.

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There always seems to be negativity when it comes to the discourse surrounding Tottenham Hotspur. Every loss and misstep has to be 'Spursy', every year tacked onto their trophy drought is an unmitigated failure.

How about we lower our arms for one day and appreciate the good they have done in the modern era, eh? A first-ever Champions League final, consistently punching above their financial weight, a billion-pound stadium move across about 30 centimetres to the south and a boat-load or two of top-class players to have come through the doors is nothing to be sniffed at.

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It has been nearly 21 months since Dele Alli last played a game of professional football. It has been over two years since he took to a pitch in England.

The football world is desperate to see the former England international happy and strutting his stuff once again. At his peak, he was one of the world's most electrifying and thrilling talents, the boy wonder with a chip on his shoulder.

For various reasons, Dele is not the same player he was in his younger days, and his brave revelations about his troubled upbringing, which included sexual abuse throughout his childhood, brought about appropriate sympathy for his struggles both past and present, on the field and off it.

Though there have been some suggestions he could choose to retire, Dele may well have more to give to the game of football as a player. Teams are drawing up plans for the January transfer window and may even look to strengthen their ranks beforehand with a move for the free agent.

Tottenham have appealed Rodrigo Bentancur's seven-match ban after the Uruguayan was found guilty of making a racist remark about Son Heung-min.

Radu Dragusin's agent has talked about Juventus and Napoli's interest in the Tottenham defender with a summer transfer on the cards.

When the north London derby came to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last year, it was an historic day for the hosts. Martha Thomas' goal secured a first-ever win over Arsenal for Spurs, and there were several Gunners who returned to the scene of that miserable afternoon on Saturday who must have shuddered at the memories brought back. But any fears of a similarly disappointing result were alleviated with little more than 60 seconds played, as Alessia Russo's early goal helped kickstart an important 3-0 victory for Arsenal - securing back-to-back wins in the Women's Super League for the first time this season.

It's been a tough start to the campaign for the Gunners, with Jonas Eidevall resigning from his head coach role last month after a string of poor results. However, interim boss Renee Slegers has helped steady the ship, with this a fourth win in five games under her charge. Included in that revival has been a fantastic run of form for Russo, who didn't score in any of Arsenal's first five WSL games. On Saturday, she bagged her third goal in her last three league outings to break the deadlock inside two minutes.

When Frida Maanum doubled that lead 20 minutes later, it put the visitors in firm control of proceedings, a status they held for the majority of the game. There were flashes from Spurs, most notably when Beth England forced Daphne van Domselaar into a good save from range, but not enough to really trouble the Gunners and get back into a game that was all-but-over when Stina Blackstenius came off the bench to add a third just past the hour.

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Referee David Coote allegedly sent messages arranging a 'drugs party' before and during the half-time break of a crunch Carabao Cup clash this season.

Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur is expected to be hit with a 'significant' suspension for his racist comment about team-mate Son Heung-min.

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Tottenham Hotspur are football's best example of a living paradox. They are thrilling and frustrating, fantastic and feeble, tremendously troublesome and wickedly woeful. To best demonstrate this on a tangible level, they sit 10th in the standings, yet boast the Premier League's best goals-scored tally and second-best goal difference, while they have one of the division's better defensive records.

For Spurs fans, they have barely had time to bask in the warm, undersoil-heated glow their new billion-pound stadium was meant to provide since moving in over half a decade ago. The board were cut-throat with their decision to sack Mauricio Pochettino, but have failed to find a suitable long-term replacement for him since, cycling their way through permanent successors in Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo, Antonio Conte and now Ange Postecoglou.

Success continues to steer clear of this part of north London, and like the many men who came before him, Postecoglou is now under the microscope for failing to deliver. Tottenham were booed off after allowing Ipswich Town their first top-flight win in 22 years on Sunday, halting momentum and sending them into a fifth-successive international break off the back of a disappointing defeat.

The mood around N17 is souring again. Postecoglou has little time to prove he is the right man to lead the club forward.

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Tottenham Hotspur are football's best example of a living paradox. They are thrilling and frustrating, fantastic and feeble, tremendously troublesome and wickedly woeful. To best demonstrate this on a tangible level, they sit 10th in the standings, yet boast the Premier League's best goals-scored tally and second-best goal difference, while they have one of the division's better defensive records.

For Spurs fans, they have barely had time to bask in the warm, undersoil-heated glow their new billion-pound stadium was meant to provide since moving in over half a decade ago. The board were cut-throat with their decision to sack Mauricio Pochettino, but have failed to find a suitable long-term replacement for him since, cycling their way through permanent successors in Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo, Antonio Conte and now Ange Postecoglou.

Success continues to steer clear of this part of north London, and like the many men who came before him, Postecoglou is now under the microscope for failing to deliver. Tottenham were booed off after allowing Ipswich Town their first top-flight win in 22 years on Sunday, halting momentum and sending them into a fifth-successive international break off the back of a disappointing defeat.

The mood around N17 is souring again. Postecoglou has little time to prove he is the right man to lead the club forward.