Arsenal stretched their lead at the top of the Premiership to four points this evening, following their 2-1 victory over Spurs in the north London derby at Highbury.
Goals from Robert Pires and Freddie Ljungberg provided the basis of the Gunners' victory, after they languished a goal behind for over an hour; Darren Anderton poached the Spurs opener after just 4 minutes.
Arsene Wenger's side are now on 30 points, four ahead of Chelsea, who play Newcastle tomorrow.
Elswhere, Charlton propelled themselves to fourth in the table, following a comprehensive 3-1 home victory over Fulham. Two goals from Jonatan Johansson and an opening strike from Graham Stuart laid the basis of the Londoners' win. They now lie just a point off third-placed Manchester United, who are engaged in the tie of the weekend tomorrow, with their clash with Liverpool scheduled for a 2pm kick-off.
Leeds suffered one of their most disatrious days in recent memory - succumbing to a 6-1 mauling at the hands of Portsmouth, their sixth loss in the last seven games.
It was smiles all round for Pompey though, with Stefanovic, O'Neil (twice), Foxe, Berger and Ayegbini all making the scoresheet.
Also moving up the table were Middlesbrough, who recorded a valuable 2-0 win away to Aston Villa. A goal from Dutch new addition Boudewijn Zenden and a penalty from Michael Ricketts secured the victory.
A dull affair at the Reebok Stadium saw Bolton draw 0-0 with Southampton.
Earlier, Wolves garnered a much needed point after drawing 1-1 at home to fifth-placed Birmingham.