In this article, we take a look at the 5 biggest wins Tottenham have registered against Arsenal in North London Derby history.
Yeah, we’re gonna have to go a bit back in time for most of these. The ’60s would go on to be one of the greatest decades in Tottenham’s history, so it’s only fitting for one of their biggest North London Derby wins to have arrived right at the start of the decade.
Les Allen (22′, 86′) and Bobby Smith (57′) scored the Spurs goals on the day.
Going even further back with this. Even though the scoreline remains the same, the victory is sweeter for it came away at Arsenal for the Spurs side under the leadership of Arthur Rowe, one of their greatest-ever managers.
The Spurs line-up for this game also featured a certain Alf Ramsey.
If you are a Spurs fan and told that one of your biggest North London Derby wins came in 23/24, you wouldn’t want to think about the possibility of the season being from the previous millennium. Sadly, that’s the case.
It is quite telling that only one of Tottenham’s biggest North London Derby wins have come in this century. This was, of course, the second leg of the League Cup semi-final Spurs went on to win, which is, of course, their last-ever competitive trophy.
We had six different scorers on the sheet that day, two of them from Arsenal as Nicklas Bendtner sent one in his own net and Emmanuel Adebayor, still at Arsenal at the time, pulled one back for the Gunners. The other four Spurs goals came from Jermaine Jenas (3′), Robbie Keane (48′), Aaron Lennon (60′), and Steed Malbranque (90+4′).
Thankfully, we don’t have to go to pre-World War II football to look at Spurs’ biggest-ever win against Arsenal.
Five goals were scored. Clean sheet in the bag. Proper job done, as one would say. With three different goal-scorers, we had two braces in this game from Chris Hughton (10′, 18′) and Mark Falco (13′, 53′), as Alan Brazil (66′) of talkSPORT fame scored the Lilywhites’ final goal on the day.
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