Good evening everybody. Harry Redknapp seems very confident ahead of tonight's north London derby, having claimed in his pre-match conference that (a) Spurs have only lost one of their last 10 league matches (they've lost two) and that (b) when everyone is fit, Spurs have a squad that can match Arsenal (the current injury-ravaged Arsenal squad, perhaps, despite Harry spending £70m in two transfer windows, a sum dwarfed only by that spent by Manchester City).

Meanwhile at The Emirates, Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood has promised fans that Barcelona will not be putting in a bid for Cesc Fabregas during the summer. That's good news, as long as those same fans ignore the fact that this is the same Peter Hill-Wood who once claimed Arsenal "don't need Stan Kroenke's money and we don't want his sort", before skittering excitedly around the moustachioed American's feet as soon as he waved his big bag of Benjamins.

Team news: Arsenal striker Robin van Persie is named on the bench for tonight's clash with Tottenham and Arsene Wenger reckons he has 20-30 minutes in the locker". Van Persie is included in the squad for the first time in five months after recovering from ankle ligament damage. Sol Campbell starts in defence against his old club while Theo Walcott has to settle for a place among the substitutes.

Captain Ledley King returns for Spurs after being out since February with a thigh injury, while Younes Kaboul and youngster Danny Rose are given the nod in midfield. "He's enthusiastic, been training well and a good ... eh ... eh ... passer," says Harry of young Rose, before cryptically adding: "I nearly gave away his best attribute there, but I don't think I should."

Very mysterious. What is Premier League debutant Danny Rose's best attribute? A hammer for a left foot? A hammer for a right foot? An extra head? The power to make himself invisible just by screwing his eyes up and concentrating really hard? Or something more pleasing for the ladies, perhaps?

Tottenham: Gomes, Assou-Ekotto, Dawson, King, Bale, Kaboul, Huddlestone, Modric, Rose, Pavlyuchenko, Defoe.

Subs: Alnwick, Bentley, Crouch, Gudjohnsen, Bassong, Kyle Walker, Livermore.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Campbell, Vermaelen, Clichy, Eboue, Diaby, Denilson, Rosicky, Bendtner, Nasri.

Subs: Fabianski, Eduardo, van Persie, Walcott, Silvestre, Merida, Eastmond.

Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear)

How they'll line up: Samir Nasri will attempt to fill Cesc Fabregas's size sixes tonight, with Abou Diaby and Denilson behind him in midfield supporting roles, and Emmanuel Eboue and Tomas Rosicky patrolling the flanks. Nicklas Bendtner will play alone up front. For Tottenham, Danny Rose and Gareth Bale will man the touchlines to the right and left of central midfielders Tom Huddlestone and Luca Modric. Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe play upfront.

What the Betfair geezers have to say on that really annoying advert:

Geezer No1 (who looks suspiciously like Norn Iron comedian and actor Michael Smiley): "In a derby match, you always bet with your heart."

Geezer No2: "In a derby match you always bet on the draw."

Geezer No3: "The form book goes out the window."

Yeah, out the window, innit? With your heart, innit? Some laser sharp insights there from the Betfair geezers, who are genuinely good friends and not a disparate gang of jobbing actors who got paid £4,500 each to turn up and pretend to be compulsive gamblers. Don't you wish they were your friends?

1 min: Arsenal kick off and Sol Campbell's first few touches are greeted by a crescendo of boos. He used to play for Tottenham, don't you know. Now their supporters hate him so much that they ... really wish he hadn't left.

2 min: Arsenal win a corner, which is sent into the mixer from the right. The ball's flicked as far as Campbell, who sends a meaty header goalwards. It beats Gomes, but Benoit Assou-Ekotto saves with his chest on the line.

4 min: I wonder is Benoit Essou-Ekotto is actually aware of the significance of this match? By all accounts, he doesn't like football, takes no interest in Tottenham's opposition on any given day and never has any idea what competition they're even playing in when he lines up at the start of a match or traipses off at the end.

6 min: Gareth Bale cuts in from the left wing before going down under a challenge in the D surrounding the Arsenal penalty area. He appeals for a free-kick but doesn't get one.

7 min: Rosicky and Eboue combine well down the left wing for Arsenal, with the former playing a give-and-go to the latter, only for the return pass to get lost in a forest of legs in the penalty area.

9 min: Bale takes on and beats Bakari Sagna down the left wing and gets his cross in. Clichy clears. The ball finds its way out to Danny Rose on the right wing and he sends in a cross for Pavlyuchenko to attack at the near post. His shot is blocked by a frantic Thomas Vermaelen lunge - corner for Spurs.

GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Arsenal (Rose 9 min) Danny Rose, 19, scores on his Premier League debut with a volley from at least 40 yards. That's a sensational strike!

Spurs had a corner, which was sent in from the right by Modric. Almunia punched it into the night sky, from where it dropped to Rose in the left channel. He sent it back with interest, rifling a left-footed volley over Almunia and under the crossbar from 35-40 yards out. Now we know what that secret weapon Harry Redknapp was talking about is. Rose should retire now, because he's never going to top that if he plays for another 20 years.

14 min: That's a turn-up for the books and no mistake. Arsenal were on top, but have been left shell-shocked by that sucker-punch. It was an astonishingly good goal and Danny Rose was mobbed by his astonished team-mates in the wake of scoring it.

16 min: Arsenal attack down the left flank again. They're dominating possession, but doing very little with it.

18 min: Arsenal have a problem. Thomas Vermaelen goes down injured with what looks like a pulled calf muscle in his right leg. On the touchline, Arsene Wenger is fuming, which is unsurprising seeing as he's going to have to press Mikael Silvestre into action. Arsenal substitution: Silvestre on, Vermaelen off.

20 min: Free-kick for Tottenham, just inside their own half. Dawson larrups the ball forward towards Bale, who loses possession to Campbell. He clears.

21 min: Slaloming through the centre, Samir Nasri beats two Spurs defenders before pinging a diagonal pass out to Eboue on the right flank. He attempts to cross, but his efffort is blocked.

23 min: Spurs concede a corner, which Arsenal take short. The ball is worked across to the right touchline, from where Eboue sends in a low cross that's eventually hacked clear by Dawson.

24 min: Tottenham's defence gets stretched and Nasri threads a ball through their defence into the path of Bendtner. Offside, but not by much.

25 min: "Did you know that it is almost 100 years to the day since the first league match at Tottenham between these two clubs?" asks Tony Attwood. "The first game was on April 16 1910. The big difference was that 100 years ago this was a relegation battle. A draw for Woolwich Arsenal would mean that they would stay up, a defeat for Tottenham could spell disaster, meaning they would almost certainly go down with Bolton. The crowd was also almost the same - 38,000 100 years ago. And yet this was not a London derby. Woolwich Arsenal was in Kent and Tottenham at that time was in Middlesex, not London."

27 min: Thanks for that Tony. A genuinely interesting nugget of trivia there. Have you thought about trying this?

28 min: Arsenal go close, but Nicklas Bendtner gets the ball trapped under his feet and eventually digs it out to scuff a shot wide from six yards.

29 min: Arsenal win a throw-in in the Spurs half on the edge of the final third. Denilson chucks the ball to Clichy, who promptly gives it away.

30 min: "Good history from Mr Attwood," writes Gary Naylor. "Does he know if Sol played in that match?" I couldn't tell you, Gary. Did you send messages via carrier pigeon to whoever was writing the minute-by-minute report on it?

31 min: Good defending from Benoit Essou-Ekotto who defends ... good ... ly, going down in a tangle of arms and legs with Bakari Sagna as he shepherds/bundles both Arsenal full-back and ball out over the endline.

33 min: If Suzanne Vega was here, she'd be serenading referee Mark Clattenburg with a rendtion of "His name is Luka ..." The official takes down Modric's name and waves his yellow card after the Spurs midfielder cynically blocks Sagna. From the ensuing free-kick, Arsenal win a corner, which Gomes punches clear.

35 min: The first booking is swifly followed by the second. Denilson gets cautioned for a trip on goalscorer Danny Rose.

36 min: Now Kaboul's name goes in the book, unfairly, after Rosicky ran across his path as he cut inside from the left wing on a goalward charge. Kaboul didn't actually tackle him - Rosicky ran into him and fell over. Free-kick for Arsenal, 25 yards out, well left of centre.

37 min: Nothing comes of it.

38 min: A rare sortie into the Arsenal box from Spurs, down the right flank. The ball is crossed and only half cleared to Kaboul on the right-hand side of the area. With Jermain Defoe unmarked at the far post and screaming for the ball, the right-back misplaces his pass and gifts possession to Almunia.

39 min: Modric misses what looks like a sitter that would have put Spurs two up. Picking up the ball 25 yards from the Arsenal goal, he was ushered through by Silvestre, for reasons best known to the centre-half, rode a Gael Clichy challenge and found himself through on goal with only Almunia to beat. The goalkeeper was quick off his line however and got down early to smother the shot. Lionel Messi would have just scooped it over him, but Modric was unable to do so.

42 min: With Nicklas Bendtner loitering on the edge of the penalty area, Gael Clichy has nobody to pass to after making a driving run into the Tottenham box. He tries a shot, but hits the side netting.

43 min: "What, a goal by Danny Rose and no-one's made any Woody Allen references yet?" asks DH Cauthery. "For shame. I bet when the goal went in all the Spurs fans went Bananas. Although if a bigger club comes in for him in the summer I reckon he should just Take the Money and Run. As for Redknapp's cryptic comments about him in the preamble, well, Deconstructing Harry's never been easy. I'm sorry, I'll go away now."

45 + 1 min: "I'd honestly never heard of this movie three minutes ago.

Half-time: Mark Clattenburg interrupts a game of head-tennis on the edge of the Tottenham penalty area with the half-time whistle. Spurs go in a goal up. On the balance of play they probably don't deserve to be winning, but considering they went ahead through a goal of the season contender scored by a 19-year-old making his Premier League debut, who'd begrudge them their lead?

Half-time emails: "Thanks for jinxing it with your 4-1 prediction in the Fiver," writes Aidan Gibson, who doesn't seem to realise that my prediction is well on the way to being spookily accurate.

"If Arsene Wenger wants to make this team as good as Barcelona he needs to focus more on who's on the field and less on copying Pep Guardiola's touchline outfits," writes Sean Orlowicz.

The atmosphere at White Hart Lane: Commentator Alan Parry has been saying it's "vibrant", which I suppose is one way of describing the noise generated by thousands of morons singing "Sit down you paedophile!" at Arsene Wenger. No doubt we can expect a deluge of correspondence to follow from Spurs fans pointing out that (a) it's only a small minority (it's always a small but remarkably vocal minority) and (b) Manchester United fans sing it louder and with more venom.

This from Robert Meiklejohn: "With such a big goal in such a big game can Danny Rose also look forward to a glittering career with the likes of Preston North End?" he asks.

Second half: Danny Rose has been taken off, either because he's picked up a knock, or realised the futility of carrying on after beginning his Premier League career with a goal that good. Follow that, David Bentley.

GOAL! Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 Arsenal (Bale 46) Tottenham double their lead. With the Arsenal defence caught napping, Gareth Bale prods the ball inside the right post from about six yards after running on to an excellent diagonal pass through the penalty area from Jermain Defoe.

48 min: The defending there was atrocious. Campbell let Defoe saunter past him, the slack-jawed Clichy was standing with his arm up despite Sagna playing everyone on-side, Silvestre was day-dreaming ... Wenger is going to be furious. A draw is no good to Arsenal here - they need to win. Chelsea's players must be watching this with glee.

50 min: Spurs are tearing Arsenal apart here. First Bale, then King maraud forward with the ball at their feet, trying potshots from distance. Nothing comes of them. Arsenal susbtitution: Walcott on, Sagna off. Eboue moves back to right-back.

53 min: Walcott gets his first touch on the right flank. He crosses, Dawson clears. The ball drops for Eboue who shoots high and wide from 25 yards. Dawson and King have been in total control in the Spurs penalty area tonight - I'd say they'll be content for Arsenal to continue sending crosses in for them to clear all night.

55 min: "Chelsea will be watching this with glee, until they remember it's Spurs trying to hold on to the lead," writes Mark Goodman. "Surely they will bottle this."

56 min: Theo Walcott gets double-teamed by Gareth Bale and Benoit A-E, if that's not too sordid an image. The young England tyro sprints down a blind alley and lets the ball run out over the endline. Goal-kick for Tottenham after some good defending.

58 min: "The Chelsea players can literally watch this with 'Glee' if they have Sky Multi-room set up on adjacent plasma screens," writes Sean Welch, who I suspect may have played bass in a famous young people's beat music combo from Hull, but is now more focussed on punsmithery than tunesmithery.

59 min: "Why do you hate Spurs?" asks Michael Philip, who only needs to see his team go two up against Arsenal before getting delusions of adequacy and notions above his station. I'm fairly indifferent to Spurs, Michael, but if anyone was really looking for a reason to dislike them, this YouTube footage could provide one.

61 min: Bentley whips in an excellent cross from the right wing, which both Jermain Defoe and Roman Pavlyuchenko fail to capitalise on in quick succession.

63 min: Arsenal ping the ball around on the edge of the final third, wondering what to do next.

63 min: With no opportunites to try and walk the ball into the net presenting themselves, Walcott opts for the more agricultural approach and sends in a cross from the right flank. King heads clear ... again.

65 min: Eboue sends in a deep cross from the right, which Nasri volleys back across the Tottenham penalty area from the left. Spurs clear comfortably. They're under the cosh, but coping admirably.

66 min: Bendtner goes close after being sent on his way by a pass down the right channel from Walcott. Under pressure from King, he shoots low and diagonally across the face of goal. Wide. He should have hit the target.

67 min: Here he comes. Arsenal substitution: Van Persie on, Denilson off. Tottenham substitution: Gudjohnsen on, Defoe off.

69 min: Van Persie picks out Bendtner with a marvellous pass, sending the great Dane lolloping up the right channel towards Tottenham's penalty area. He loses the ball. Moments previously, Gudjohnsen had skewed an excellent scoring opportunity out towards the right touchline with his first touch.

70 min: "Danny Rose's goal is up on YouTube already (well, until Sky take it down)," writes Paul Jaines. "In 10 years we will all be saying 'What ever happened to that young Danny chap from Spurs?' My bet is Southend." Bloody hell - it didn't take long for that to go up. Danny must have a laptop in the dressing room.

72 min: Arsenal are throwing the kitchen sink at Spurs, but to little avail. Imagine having somebody repeatedly throw a kitchen sink at you, but only occasionally getting it on target. Now imagine you have two big burly blokes named Ledley and Michael watching your back, who like nothing better in this life than heading kitchen sinks as far away from them as they possibly can. That's what this match is like.

74 min: Benoit A-E pings in a cross from the left flank, trying to pick out Pavlyuchenko or Gudjohnsen. Campbell clears.

76 min: In the left channel, Tomas Rosicky tries a shot from distance. His effort fizzes well wide, closer to the corner flag than the Tottenham goal.

79 min: Tottenham are completely bossing this match now, with Arsenal reduced to pinging the ball around just inside the Spurs half, or trying shots from distance. They're 2-0 up and as Danny Baker might say, nothing can go wrong now!!!

80 min: Or can it? Van Persie goes close, holding off Bale to chest down a cross from Diaby, swivel and volley from 10 yards. Gomes pulls off a sensational save.

82 min: From the corner, Rosicky gets the ball on the edge of the area. His low drive takes a deflection and goes narrowly wide. Another corner.

82 min: Michael Dawson gets booked for a foul on Diaby. Free-kick for Arsenal, about 25 yards out, just right of centre. Van Persie takes it and hits the target, bringing another magnificent finger-tip save out of Huerelho Gomes, who tips the ball around his right upright for a corner. That was a wonderful free-kick and a wonderful save. Another corner for Arsenal.

GOAL! Tottenham 2-1 Arsenal (Bendtner 83) On the edge of the Tottenham penalty area, Van Persie conducts the orchestra. He picks up the ball from Eboue on the left, then pings it towards Walcott on the right. He drills in a low cross and Bendtner gets his ninth goal in 11 games for Arsenal, sliding it home from four yards. The good news for Spurs fans is that they're still winning 2-1 - nothing can go wrong now!

86 min: Moments before Arsenal pulled that goal back, Gomes had saved brilliantly for a third time in quick succession. Campbell had got on the end of an inswinger from the left and looked to have scored with a bullet-header from point-blank range, only for the Tottenham goalkeeper to pull off another marvellous save.

87 min: Yet another fine save from Gomes, who beats away a Bendtner drive for what should be a corner, but is strangely given as a goal kick. Gomes is really keeping his team in the game here.

I can't stress enough, by the way, how rejuvenated Arsenal have looked since Van Persie has entered the fray. He's a wonderful player and he's been a huge loss for them in recent months.

89 min: It's all Arsenal now - they're really turning the screw and would probably be ahead if it wasn't for the heroics of Gomes, who had little to do tonight before being pressed into service time and time again in the past 10 minutes. Speaking of minutes, there'll be four of injury time.

90 +1 min: Tottenham substitution: Pavlyuchenko off, Crouch on.

90 + 1 min: Spurs win a throw-in, which they're in no rush to take, for obvious reasons.

90+2 min: Eboue gifts possession to Bale, who heads straight for the corner. Sol Campbell robs him of possession and passes the ball to Almunia. He launches it down the field, where it eventually ends up in the warm embrace of Gomes.

90+3 min: This is wonderful - real edge-of-the-seat stuff at the end of a thrilling game of football. Tottenham win a corner, which they play short and try to keep in the corner.

Peep! Peep! Peep! It's all over - Tottenham have won and are deserving victors ... but only just. They've taken three points off Arsenal in a League match for the first time in over a decade.

Their heroes were a 19-year-old debutant and a Brazilian goalkeeper that was once a laughing stock, but rode the storm of giggles to become the best goalkeeper in the Premier League, if not Europe.

This result pretty much ends Arsenal's chances of winning the title and enables Spurs to keep up the race for fourth place (and the opportunity to be dumped out of the Champions League qualifiers by AC Milan or PSV) with Manchester City.

It's also going to make for an awkward Football Weekly podcast for yours truly tomorrow morning - I've been predicitng a Spurs collapse for months. It looks like their humbling at the hands of Sunderland a couple of weeks ago was it. Nothing can go wrong now!