Shortly before kick-off at the Emirates Stadium, James Maddison announced on Sky Sports that this was a bad time to play Spurs. Arsenal, Maddison explained with a patient smile, would be regretting the timing of this north London derby, would in effect already be afraid, already losing that small but significant battle. So, like, that’s just the way it is. Even better, Maddison explained all this while sitting in a private box decorated with a bespoke Maddison mural featuring assorted Maddison mottos and Maddison logos plus a huge picture of his own dog. “Yeah, they said you can decorate it how you want,” he explained. “My question was, where’s the line …” Maddison pressed right up against that line here, across 80 minutes on the pitch when he was, once again, the spirit animal of this re-geared Tottenham team: creative general, craftsman in tight spaces, designated irritant, and above all a decisive source of attacking incision. Maddison who provided the final pass for both Spurs goals in this game. Both were scored by Son Heung-min, …

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