BBC Radio 5 Live

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David Pleat: Pundits' Wenger criticism 'unjustified'

Keown: Wenger has to be more 'demanding' of players

Danny Murphy
Ex-Liverpool & Tottenham midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

“I'm surprised at Arsenal's changes. The inclusion of Elneny shows their respect for Tottenham and the importance to today’s game.

“It’s a little bit negative from Arsenal and that's unusual for Wenger to do, but it might just pay dividends for them…”

Mauricio Pochettino has Mousa Dembele back in the team after a groin injury and he is joined by Dele Alli, who was a substitute in the defeat by West Ham. The full-backs switch as per usual, with Kyle Walker and Danny Rose ready for some White Hot Lane action   

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Arsenal are without injured goalkeeper Petr Cech and defender Laurent Koscielny so David Ospina is in goal with the big news that Arsene Wenger has handed a first league start to Mohamed Elneny. Kieran Gibbs comes in at left-back and Danny Welback starts up front. 

David Pleat
Former Tottenham boss on BBC Radio 5 live

"The balance of a team is more important than the individual skills of any players. It is the hardest thing, getting a squad together with all the qualities you need. Mauricio Pochettino has embraced a group of young players and has skillfully bought one or two. It has a good balance and I believe that the training has been very, very hard. The players have benefited from that. Ryan Mason is 22 or 23, was continually injury troubled but they retained faith in him and he has had a consistent run. He is not getting injured now because he is training harder."

Martin Keown
Former Arsenal defender on BBC One

"What we offered, as a winning Arsenal team, was nothing unique. It was a determination to win. You don't see that in every player but it is difficult. Out of possession you have to be aggressive to get the ball back and then when you do you need to flick a switch and be calm on the ball. That is difficult. Pochettino seems to have that transition at Spurs, there is a work ethic at Spurs that Arsenal do not have."

You've gone and outed me as an infrequent user of the word 'banter' there Matt. I've ended up looking like my granddad trying to understand how to send an email.

Football Focus

Dan Walker has been putting in a shift on the Sport Relief 5-a-side pitch over the last day or two but he's still found time to anchor Football Focus this lunchtime.

Joining Dan are Preston's two greatest Irishmen - Mark Lawrenson and Kevin Kilbane, while we have interviews with Bournemouth forward Benik Afobe, Javier Hernandez and Alan Sugar.

You can watch that on BBC One or at the top of this page.

We'll bring the goals as they go in from Tottenham versus Arsenal, but we have a dedicated live commentary page for a blow-by-blow account of the game, which you can follow here.

As ever, our main focus will be on building up to the rest of the day's football, with a bit of 'bants' thrown in too.

Oh yes, I did just use the word 'bants'.

Cheers Beggers.

You say to the bitter end, but when you start with a North London Derby and end with the Premier League leaders, it's not a bad day of football is it?

We've also got Football Focus, which gets under way on BBC One and on this page at 12:10 GMT.

Let's get cracking.

That's my morning stint of this live text over - it's time for Gary Rose to run this show until the bitter end.

Legit fanboy: Anyone but Arsenal ! Twitter will be unbearable if they win the league.

Paul Lewis: Not sure Spurs have the bottle to win the league. Faltered under pressure in mid week and I expect them to lose to Arsenal.

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Bristol City host Cardiff in the 'Battle of the Severn Bridge', while Championship leaders Burnley play host to a 'Lancashire Hotpot' against Blackburn.

Live text of those two lunchtime Championship games has just started.

Ex-Arsenal striker Ian Wright and former Spurs forward Mido both know the importance of today's game...

Both sides have made four changes to their line-ups for today's derby. Mohamed Elneny makes his first Premier League start for Arsenal. Full team news to follow.

Do you like your soaps? If so check out the Sport Relief five-a-side tournament now.

Chris Bisson from Emmerdale has just scored the first goal of the soap Allstars game for Team Savage, who are now 56 goals behind overall. Chipping away. 

Watch and read here.

Maggie B in Lowestoft

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Man City v Aston Villa (15:00 GMT)

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Southampton v Sunderland (15:00 GMT)

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