Bentley: ‘I feel like Superman, I could fly home.’

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GIRL POWER ... Cesc Fabregas reckons Arsenal ladies could beat Spurs

Wednesday, 29 October 2008 - (Thur Morning)

Arsenal v Tottenham - 4:00 am

The two sides clash in the big North London derby tonight — a baptism of fire for new Tottenham chief Harry Redknapp. Gunners boss Wenger believes Ramos, who was fired on Saturday, should be in the visiting dugout at the Emirates this evening.

Wenger said: “I don’t think he’d have been sacked if he had only arrived at Tottenham in July. "But the fact is he arrived in the middle of last season and people were less patient with their league position.

“What sometimes happens in this league is when a team doesn’t go for Europe and wins the Carling Cup, they suddenly switch off.

“Without anyone noticing, slowly you lose results. And then, if you don’t start the next season well, which is what happened to Ramos, his environment slowly lost confidence in him.

“I am very surprised it didn’t work for Ramos and I feel sorry for him because I rate him as a coach and as a man.

Fabregas also took a pop at Spurs when he teased them about playing Arsenal’s ladies. He told lads’ mag Loaded that Vic Akers’ all-conquering women’s side would give the White Hart Lane men a tough game.

Fab said: “They would do really well. I’m sure they would get a point!” The last time the two sides met Spurs beat Arsenal 5-1 in the Carling Cup semi-final, second leg in January — that was Spurs’ first win in 22 games against their rivals.

youyayu SG

WTF!!! LOL

Jacksngthepilot SG

haha totally stab sia!

sand king SG

haha totally stab sia!

I hope spurs stab back!

gunner77 SG

nice one fab

limpper SG

wat lan eh, personal attack sial -.-
lol, spainish help spainish -.-
anw, cool lah siol, he talk like jose.

thongs SG

ok after fabregas said this, i think spurs is gonna win

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sunderland fans

The Football Association have urged supporters to behave at tonight's north London derby after admitting to concerns over the level of crowd violence creeping back into stadiums.

Arsenal take on Tottenham just four days after 29 arrests were made as Sunderland and Newcastle fans clashed at the Stadium of Light. Five arrests were made at Arsenal's last home match against Everton when fans fought inside the ground.

A section of Spurs supporters were also condemned after directing homophobic chants towards Sol Campbell during their visit to Portsmouth last month. The north London derby is always a high-profile fixture and has been given added spice with Spurs being rooted to the bottom of the table and Harry Redknapp's appointment as manager.

The game is also being screened live on Sky TV and the FA are keen to avoid more trouble as two fierce rivals clash at Emirates Stadium.

An FA spokesman said: 'We have seen some incidents in the last two weeks which are completely unacceptable and have no place in football. The FA, clubs and police have been working hard to identify those involved.

'Our message to any fans planning on causing trouble is that there will be a joint approach between the football authorities and the police to deal in the strongest possible way with any troublemakers.'

Local police are not anticipating any trouble and have not increased the number of officers on duty in and around the stadium, a presence in excess of 400.

But a police source said that Arsenal fans started the trouble against Everton 11 days ago with a section of the upper tier above the visiting support throwing objects at those below them.

Meanwhile, Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor admitted feeling pity towards rivals Tottenham. The Togo striker told talkSPORT: 'I think every player feels sorry for them. At the moment Tottenham are really bad, they lack confidence and when you lack confidence it's always difficult to win games.'

limpper SG

lol, don behave also cannot catch everyone back to station.

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Adebayor and Bendtner square up

In the past: Adebayor wants to forget his spat with Bendtner

Emmanuel Adebayor admits the R-word is very much in the air at the Emirates Stadium. That’s revenge not Redknapp.

Arsenal have stewed for nine months on the 5-1 thrashing they took at Tottenham in the Carling Cup semi-final. It was a night when the Gunners lost the plot, leaking goals and fighting among themselves, but Adebayor is determined to make amends and what better way than to cut Harry Redknapp’s Spurs revival dead in its tracks?

‘My last memory of Tottenham was very bad and I’m looking to change that and give them something special,’ said the striker who took his frustrations out on team-mate Nicklas Bendtner during the humiliation at White Hart Lane.

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David Bentley scored a wonderful, A la Beckham type of goal only to have Gomaz making another costly mistake to let Silvestre make it level... Now its 2 - 1 to the gunners. Gallas.

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Wah... 4 - 4 final score !

Very impressive Spurs display... Had it not been for their error prone keeper I think they could have even won it... The equalizer came in the last 30 sec of injury time...

After this display, people will take them seriously now...

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Wah... 4 - 4 final score !

Very impressive Spurs display... Had it not been for their error prone keeper I think they could have even won it... The equalizer came in the last 30 sec of injury time...

After this display, people will take them seriously now...

Impressive my ass... Tottenham were only chasing shadows for majority of the game though I dunno how they managed to pick up a draw... I'd choose to think this is the result of 2 sets of sucky defence

RaTtY8l SG

eat ur words, fabregas or fibreglass or watsoever glrass hah

thongs SG

all i can say is that they were lucky

dragg SG

fabregas talk too much.

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Impressive is because Arsenal are currently a side on form and Spurs are a team in disarray... But even if they were both on form or anything, Spurs have not won Arsenal in the league for 8 yrs already...

And with this match being played at Arsenal's own ground... It was almost unthinkable for the currect joke Spurs side to even have got anything... From taking the lead they went behind early in the 2nd half... then went further behind by 2 goals...

To come back twice from 2 goals down show their impressive motivation and spirit to keep it going cos sides like them could easily gave up when they went behind by 2 goals... But they did not despite 2 times and were rewarded for their efforts... But seriously, Harry Potter needs a new keeper, Gomez is just plain hopeless...

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lolx 8 goals thriller i think those who bet on soccer will surpised.

limpper SG

so fabregas's ballz in his mouth now?

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David Bentley unleashes the shot which gave Spurs the lead at Arsenal

Screamer: David Bentley unleashes the shot which gave Spurs the lead at Arsenal

After watching his stunning strike go in, Bentley celebrates

Cue celebrations: after watching his stunning strike go in, Bentley celebrates

David Bentley scored a stunning 40-yard goal for Tottenham in a stunning derby draw at his old club Arsenal and then declared: ‘I feel like Superman, I could fly home.’

The north London rivals slugged it out in dramatic fashion as Harry Redknapp’s Spurs came from 4-2 down to snatch a breathtaking draw with an Aaron Lennon equaliser deep in injury-time at the Emirates Stadium.

Redknapp, only in the job since Saturday night, must have felt like Harry Houdini after the game but already Spurs are beginning to show the bulldog spirit epitomised by the wily old campaigner.

He said: ‘We pulled an amazing result out of the bag. Coming back tonight, they showed what they are made of. I said to them I’d work on their confidence. Everything in life comes down to confidence.

‘I haven’t experienced many games like that. It looked all over. It was great to come back, an amazing finish.’

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was left looking for the positives after dominating the game. ‘I believe that we produced an excellent match,’ he said. ‘With two minutes to go, there was no Harry Redknapp factor. It’s very difficult to prove scientifically why that happened. At 4-2, they had given up but we got them back into the game. On the positive side, we were really superior to Tottenham.’

Yet, former Arsenal youth product Bentley was left to savour the occasion and he said: ‘We showed character and spirit. We showed we are a top team willing to fight for every point. You’re going to get criticised when you’re not performing and certain things have gone on, but we have sorted them out and we’re going in the right direction now.’

Redknapp after Spurs score their last goal

Happy Harry: Redknapp after Spurs score their last goal