The Armoury

The difference is that he is actually playing central, not stuck out on the right wing, was my second favourite player after Van Persie so i'll always stick up for him mind. As for Jenkinson (from Prem thread iirc), i said at the start of the season he'll be a future England international, the quality he has is clear to see and has been head and shoulders above Sagna this season. Just wish that maybe he was played a bit more early on when Sagna was awful, may have made a difference in our performances.

I'd imagine Sagna will be off in the summer, and I won't be too upset about it given Jenkinson's recent performances. It's quite nice having a selection of good full-backs - remember when we had to field Djourou on the right for a few games a couple of seasons back? Gibbs and Monreal look good on the left too.

The difference is that he is actually playing central, not stuck out on the right wing, was my second favourite player after Van Persie so i'll always stick up for him mind. As for Jenkinson (from Prem thread iirc), i said at the start of the season he'll be a future England international, the quality he has is clear to see and has been head and shoulders above Sagna this season. Just wish that maybe he was played a bit more early on when Sagna was awful, may have made a difference in our performances.

Yeah, it increased his release clause to €35m. I'd be pretty surprised if he signs for you lot, especially with City and Chelsea being linked to him for ages.

Nice little stat that. We weren't particularly exciting going forward but the whole team was disciplined and nullified Swansea's offence.

The Arsenal and England winger Theo Walcott has revealed that he used to be a room-mate of Tottenham’s Gareth Bale when they were at Southampton, and says that Bale should have come to the Emirates, because he is an Arsenal fan!

Although Bale is now thoroughly accepted as the newest star at White Hart Lane, the Spurs fans won’t be pleased to know that he would have preferred to join the Gunners with Walcott.

Walcott said: “We were room mates. We shared digs in Southampton and we actually signed the room somewhere where we were together. We wanted to make our mark! It’s probably gone now.

“I’ve played with him since under-11s at Southampton. With him being an Arsenal fan, it’s just a shame he didn’t come to us!

“We still get on really well. I watched both Inter games in the Champions League. I phoned him straight away, wanted to be the first to leave him a message. I couldn’t repeat what I said!

“I think everyone knows who Gareth Bale is now. We’ve got the qualifier against Wales as well. I haven’t been winding him up about that yet but I will after the Tottenham game!”

Both Walcott and Bale have become known for their blistering pace, so it will be interesting if they come up against each other when Spurs face Arsenal in a couple of weeks time.

“The Spurs game will be a big test for us. It’s the early kick-off, straight after the international break and I’ll be on the right and he’s on the left so it’ll be a big test for us both.” Walcott said.

“It would be a good race between me and Gareth. He would say I’m quicker than him and I would say that he’s quicker than me.

“The thing is with Gareth is that it’s so hard to stop him. When he gets motoring it’s so hard to stop him. With me, over the first ten or 20 metres I’m there.

“Gareth was a little stick when he first came to Southampton. But he’s built up, done fantastically well and I’m so pleased for him. It’s been very difficult for us both to come through and get to where we are now.

“Gareth has a different style. He looks quicker with the ball. When he sees that space, he attacks it. It’s very difficult to stop him. Bolton did very well to stop him last weekend and hopefully we can do that.”

Two clean sheets on the spin, something we're not used to seeing. We can score against anyone but that matters little if you cannot defend, really hope that maybe the defensive side of things can keep this consistency, shame its 7 months too late.

Also -

Tottenham's remaining games are - Swansea (A), Everton (H), Chelsea (A), Man City (H), Wigan (A), Southampton (H), Stoke (A) & Sunderland (H). Plus they also have the Europa League.

We Have - Reading (H), West Brom (A), Norwich (H), Everton (H), Fulham (A), Man Utd (H), QPR (A), Wigan (H) & Newcastle (A).

Clearly on paper we have the easier run in and i feel we have a really good chance of catching them now.

Turkish website reporting that Galatasaray have been invited to the 2013 Emirates Cup. Other rumoured teams include Real Madrid & Juve.