Since the goal Arsenal has been dominating possession but KK has looked sharp when he needed to. Now things are hotting up. Anderton earns the 3rd yellow of the game for upending Ashley Cole in dramatic fashion (probably looked worse than it actually was).
Now Kanu and Gardner are talking smack and exchanging a few high elbows. Ref calms them down with pulling out the plastic.
Always a pleasure, Sachin. 24th min. -- On a rare Spurs charge, Postiga makes a run into the box, but Lehman is forced off his line to clear. 25th min. -- Another yellow card, this one to Dean Richards for Tottenham.
Bodies are falling all over the pitch. The CR has got to calm this down or it's going to get really ugly. Richards receives the 4th yellow of the game.
26' Very deep free kick crossed across the goal mouth by Kanu but Anderton clears from the back post (inexplicably the restart is a goal kick)
26th min. -- Kanu heads wide from a free kick, and Ljungberg can't reach the wide ball at the far post. Keller appeared to be stranded with an eye on Kanu.
This is fabulous stuff. 38th min. -- Henry appears to be hurt, runs over the byline off the ball, grabbing his throat.
The replays don't show any major contact. This is weird. Henry is up and walking around on the end line. Thank goodness. That looked nasty! Game back on.
No worries, he's fine. A case of the contact looking worse than it actually was. 32nd min. -- Keller upends Henry outside the box-- however, flag was already up for offside.
From the replay it looks like Carr's hand must have caught Henry right across the trachea. Of course, now Henry is motioning and accusing Carr of a deliberate elbow to the throat (which was clearly not what happened per the replay). The Highbury faithful boo Carr's every touch. Henry breaks through but offside. Keller takes Henry down hard on the end of the run!
I'm curious if Henry was play acting. If he really thought he caught an elbox he may have been hamming it up hoping for a red card.
Pires makes a huge meal of Carr's using his arm to hold him off on the left wing. I'm guess this match ends with at least two send offs!
35th min. -- Now it's on for young and old, after an incident involving Pires and Carr (again, apparently), and players from both teams having heated discussions. Pires appeared to milk it a bit. Pires' resulting free kick, headed out by Richards.
Wouldn't put it past Henry, as far as the gamesmanship is concerned. Over-under on the number of red cards has to be 2, IMHO. 39th min. -- Parlour shoots wildly wide to the right of Keller's goal.
Incidentally, I was at that game, so I remember a bit about it ... midweek fixture before the FA Cup Final, and Arsenal rested all of their top players. I wonder when Spurs last won a genuine competitive match at Highbury.
40' Postiga gets in behind the defense again but Lehman saves again. Lauren is having a horror showing on the right side.
42' Free kick sails out of bounds as Anderton appeals for a PK. It looked to me like he was held but I guess you actually have to knock somebody to ground in this game to even catch the referee's attention