Can you remember the last time Spurs beat Arsenal at Highbury?
A few clues: Useless defender Pat Van Den Hauwe; Steve Sedgley, a midfielder who always looked like he had become a pro-footballer by some horrible mistake and that he should have been somewhere flipping burgers on the M40. Paul Allen, the weakest of the Allen clan. And dipstick captain Teddy Sheringham, the striker who loved Tottenham soooo much he signed for Moan United. All hopeless ex-Spurs players but also members of the glory-glory Tottenham team that won 3-1 at Highbury in May 1993 one of Spurs greatest achievements of semi-recent times. It was a hollow win. George Graham rested his best players for the FA Cup final that Arsenal won just days later. Twelve years on, Tottenham go into Monday night s derby still struggling. Nothing has changed. Michael Brown is a modern day Sedgley, Naybet is a Van den Hauwe clone and Robbie Keane is as irritating as Teddy ever was. His goal celebrations are not big or clever and make him look like a twit. I said twit. In the same 12-year period,
