The privilege of the bigger club in a local rivalry is the ability to pretend they don’t care about the smaller one. For years, that was the dynamic of the north London derby: Arsenal, since the early 1990s, had the upper hand in the power balance in their part of the English capital, and with that, they could make it clear that they had bigger things to do than worry about Tottenham Hotspur. Something tells you, though, that Arsene Wenger rarely worries about other football teams anyway. Even now, when his side are often on the end of chastening defeats against top six rivals, it seems that the Frenchman puts out a side who worry only about playing their own game, and feel that...
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