Lovely stuff Dubai. Poch may play it down, and rightly so, but we shouldn't lose the significance of what means. For so long, the inevitability that Arsenal would finish above us has hung round the neck of the club and always held us back, like no one could really believe that whatever good we did, we would actually get in front of them. Even when we really thought we had them - last season, 2012, Lasagna, they always found a way back in front. It was like they had some secret. Some special sauce because they were just a better, more professional club and knew they would get there in the end. But no more. Even if they get in front of us next season, it isn't going to be for another 20. The fact that they always got ahead of us in the end, seemingly inevitably (and with the sheer bad luck we've had I somewhat thought it was destined to continue forever) still made us look and feel like we were a slightly smaller club. No matter what we achieved. No matter what good we did, it still felt like, at the business end of the season, we were the same old Spurs. Nice enough, but not a real team. Not really playing where the big boys play. Even last season, when we were clearly better than them, they still managed it. But it papered over the cracks for them. And it was our final lesson. We are a class apart from them right now and hopefully that continues. But even if it doesn't, we've proven something massive today and that significance shouldn't be lost.
