With both Manchester and North London clashes this weekend, tickerscricket has worked out which of the big local derbies is best...
Date published: Monday 9th January 2023 10:03 -Spurs and Arsenal meet this weekend in the North London Derby, and for once there is a significant gulf between them in the Premier League table thanks to the Gunners embarking on a gloriously improbable title challenge while Spurs shuffle about trying to win every single game from 2-0 down for reasons known only to themselves.
Of the three – Merseyside, Manchester, north London – there really is only one that has spent the last 10 years being about anything more than those admittedly all-important Local Bragging Rights. Only one where there is a meaningful rivalry outside the geographical. So we looked at some numbers and that half-baked initial thought was actually even more true than we thought. God bless Spurs and Arsenal and their ongoing commitment to absurdist banter, frankly.
But perhaps the most absurd thing in the context of these numbers is that the one Everton win was a) at Anfield, b) not even two years ago and c) at that time not really even that much of a surprise. That 2020/21 season truly was a very, very weird one. Everyone likes to asterisk 2019/20 – mainly just to wind up Liverpool fans in fairness – but 2020/21 is the freakish outlier. Klopp’s Liverpool finished behind Solskjaer’s United, for goodness’ sake.
Now that’s the stuff, isn’t it? Look at the extreme lengths Arsenal have had to go to this season just to try and buck the trend. A casual glance suggests recent Spurs dominance, but look at the points difference. No more than one game in it for each of the last four seasons, and two of Arsenal’s last four seasons finishing above their rivals were just the same. And look how often these two dafties end up side by side in the final table.
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