And Richarlison couldn’t resist using Spurs’ pre-season win as an opportunity to aim a dig at his Brazil teammate and Arsenal defender Gabriel. In a post on Instagram after the game, Richarlison posed with the Man of the Match award and the Herbalgy Trophy, but he also tagged Gabriel’s account.

It seems as though the gap between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur is as wide as it has been in a generation, and the reality is you have to go back nearly 50 years, to Spurs' temporary sojourn in the second tier in 1977-78 for the last time as many positions separated them from their rivals down the Seven Sisters Road.