The match ended in a draw with both teams scoring a goal each. How I wish that we could have won our last North-London derby at Highbury but that was not the case to be. Robbie Keane gave the lead to Spurs in the early second half and with six minutes remaining Henry, who came onto the pitch from the bench in the second half, scored an awesome goal to equalize the scores and restore our pride.
Though our goal came through some neat play between Adebayor & Henry their goal was a controversial one and it remained the much talked about issue during and after the match. We all know what happened and with whom. Diaby & Eboue collided and the latter remained on the floor while the ball in Carrick’s position who waited to decide whether to continue playing or to put the ball out of play and then decided to play and passed the ball to Davids on the Spurs left flank. In the absence of Eboue, David could get along the channel and easily put the ball in the way of Keane who arrived by the time in the box near the right-hand post. He was left with the simplest of task to tuck the ball into the goal to give Spurs the lead. When David should have stopped and put the ball out of play he continued which led to the goal for Spurs. Wenger was furious and even the players protested but the referee deemed nothing wrong with it and the goal stood. Wenger was so outraged that he confronted Jol on the sidelines. Later Davids was sent off for a second offence.
But we can’t do anything now of it. We were looking for a win but could only take a point of the game. But we have the solace in the fact that at least we didn’t lost to Spurs in the final north London derby at Highbury. Full three point should have been the order of the day but to be honest we didn’t actually put enough effort especially in the first half. Spurs created more chances than us and we weren’t able to dictate the game. Honestly we didn’t woke up until they took the lead and their goal though disputed came as a shot in the arm for us. We then began to surge forward and to create chances upfront and then later deservingly equalized. Three points would have done our Champions Leagie automatic qualification hopes much good but now we are left to wish that somebody from either West Ham or Bolton take points away from Spurs and we win all of our remaining three fixtures. We can take solace in the fact that we didn’t LOSE to Spurs. This was their last chance to defeat us at Highbury which they couldn’t. A defeat at the hands of Spurs in our last north London derby at Highbury would have dented our pride in our outstanding record against them at Highbury and in the Premier League. Hence the goal from Henry sees our pride restored by remaining unbeaten to Spurs since the last 6 years. Hahaha!!
By the way later that evening Chelsea were kicked out from the FA Cup by Liverpool in the Semi-Final at Old Trafford.
Later Wenger called Jol a liar when Jol remarked that he didn’t saw the incident. Questions were raised whether Wenger should apologize for calling Jol a liar. But the proof is here (Thanks to arseblogger) . On this page the clip shows very clearly that Jol - who claimed to Wenger that he didnt saw the incident not only sees it but also asks his player Carrick to continue with the play while Eboue remained lying on the pitch injured. So there is the answer to that.
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