Robbie Keane Left To Eat His Own Words as Arsenal Complete Decade of Dominance

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Spurs have been acting like noisy neighbours this week but Arsenal are still the neighbours from hell.

The White Hart Lane outfit have not beaten the Gunners for a full decade now but that did not stop Robbie Keane and company talking up their side’s ability to surpass their North London rivals before the match.

Keane said that Spurs had “more strength in depth” than Arsenal and, with Jermaine Defoe, Aaron Lennon and Luka Modric absent, they had the perfect chance to substantiate this.

And Spurs were superb for 42 minutes—but their old demons came back to haunt them.

Harry Redknapp’s Halloween couldn’t have been any worse. He certainly won’t see anything scarier than the sins committed by his defence at the end of the first half.

If Robin Van Persie’s opener was soft, Cesc Fabregas’s goal—just 11 seconds after the restart from the first—came gift-wrapped. Fabregas must have felt like Maradona as he plundered an exceptional finish but the visiting defence parted like the Red Sea in truth.

Redknapp looked like he’d seen a ghost but he was spooked again when Van Persie profited from another early Christmas present.

Actions speak louder than words and on this evidence Keane will be eating every one of those he muttered in the build up to the 162nd North London Derby.

Spurs simply self-destruct against Arsenal, who did their talking on the pitch.

At 3-0 Arsene Wenger, never satisfied and overcome by a fit of melodramatic rage, even ripped off his jacket and flung it at his chair in the dugout.

Spurs may be obsessed with beating/matching/surpassing Arsenal, but Wenger has bigger fish to fry.

And that’s still the difference, Robbie.

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