Ahead of the North London derby this Saturday, let’s look at some of the times Arsenal have humiliated Tottenham.

Of course, if we went through every single time Arsenal have humiliated Spurs, we’d be here all day.

You don’t finish above your local rivals 21 times in a row without embarrassing them regularly.

But here are six of our favourites:

26 February 2012: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham

Most of the build up to this one revolved around Emmanuel Adebayor’s return to Arsenal. After his over-zealous celebration against the Gunners for City, tensions were at an all time high. When the striker scored a penalty to make it 2-0, he must’ve thought he’d defeated his former club once again.

Bacary Sagna and Robin van Persie made sure that lead didn’t even last nine minutes. Then Tomas Rosicky put Arsenal ahead early in the second half. Theo Walcott, who wasn’t having the best game, suddenly burst to life with two goals to make it 5-2.

“Adebayor, what’s the score?” rang around the ground, and Spurs left the Emirates Stadium knowing they’d suffered one of their most embarrassing defeats. At least they only had to live through it once, though. Right?

17 November 2012: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham

Later that year, Spurs and Adebayor were out for revenge. It only took 10 minutes for the striker to score another goal against the Gunners. Then, eight minutes later, he dived in with a completely unnecessary challenge and got sent off.

Per Mertesacker, Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud turned the game round against Tottenham’s 10 men. Then Santi Cazorla added another in the second half.

Gareth Bale pulled one back, but Theo Walcott killed off any hopes of a comeback with a late fifth.

Somehow Spurs had conceded five goals to their biggest rivals twice in one year.

It had, indeed, happened again.

21 September 2010: Tottenham Hotspur 1-4 Arsenal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjO1Y4-ZHpg

Conceding five away from home is bad, but conceding four at your own ground might be even worse.

In this League Cup third round tie, Arsenal took the lead through Henri Lansbury. Spurs responded through Robbie Keane, and the 90 minutes ended 1-1.

In the first-half of extra-time, the Gunners tore Spurs apart, scoring three times to race into an unassailable lead.

Samir Nasri and Andrei Arshavin scored the goals, and Spurs went out of the League Cup at White Hart Lane against Arsenal for what wouldn’t be the last time, but was probably the most embarrassing time.

06 March 1935: Tottenham 0-6 Arsenal

On the subject of big wins at White Hart Lane, this was the biggest win of any North London derby.

Cliff Bastin and Ted Drake joined Alf Kirchen and Peter Dougall on the scoresheet in this rampant performance.

It was actually Kirchen’s debut, and he scored a brace in the record win.

There probably aren’t many people around who still remember this match, but it’s likely to live long in the record books as a humiliating stain on Spurs’ history.

03 May 1971: Tottenham 0-1 Arsenal

On the surface this one doesn’t look too bad. A 1-0 defeat at White Hart Lane is hardly the worst result they’ll ever suffer.

This match had special significance though. Arsenal were the league leaders, and needed just one more win to pick up the title.

They achieved that victory against Spurs, and 51,922 fans had to watch on as the Gunners celebrated winning the trophy in their home ground.

It doesn’t get much worse than that.

Arsenal went on to complete the double with an FA Cup final win over Liverpool at Wembley.

25 April 2004: Tottenham 2-2 Arsenal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrgixaKP7oA

In 2004, Arsenal became the first team ever to win the Premier League title without losing a match. They achieved that feat at White Hart Lane, with a draw against Spurs.

The Gunners went into the match knowing they only needed a point, but went 2-0 up in the first half anyway. Spurs fought back in the second period, desperately trying to prevent the inevitable, but they could only manage a draw.

Even then, the Tottenham players celebrated the point “like they had won the league”, as Thierry Henry put it.

He made sure to celebrate the title win with extra vigour as a result.

This weekend, unfortunately, there’s no league title on offer for the winner.

Hopefully Arsenal can add a new entry to the list of humiliations anyway.