If he’s not scraping his boot down the face of an ex-teammate and colleague or verbally abusing the team that made him the player he is today, Emmanuel Adebayor is antagonising fans who backed him through thick and thin.

However, he did score two goals to effectively knock Tottenham out of the Champions League last night. On that basis alone, the Togolese target-man may well have placed himself back in Gunners’ fans’ good books.

No matter what he’s done before, this act of heroism is surely worth a place in Arsenal hearts?

To practically knock out a team who’s fans are getting far too ahead of themselves stirs up glorious feelings in the Arsenal faithful. Spurs and their fans really were, and still are, proving themselves hugely ignorant, especially in the eyes of those of us who support a team who have qualified for the Champions League 13 seasons in a row.  For Spurs on the other hand, this is their first time in the midst of Europe’s elite. That puts them on a par with the likes of Bursaspor, Petrzalka and Swiss amateurs FC Thun.

Yet many of their fans still refuse to accept that Arsenal are North London’s leading football side.

This provides a huge sense of personal frustration for most Arsenal fans, a group of fans who accept their team’s failings without reluctance.

So therefore, Adebayor may well have given us the opportunity to feel a huge sense of relief and put Tottenham supporters in their place.

Memories of those long legs striding the whole length of the pitch just to stir up trouble in the stands at Eastlands in September of 09 will never vanish but maybe his latest offering will shed light on his successes.

Before the Tottenham game, the on-loan Madrid frontman claimed: “At Arsenal the fans loved me, I think even today they love me.” Before his two headed goals this statement was highly doubtful. However, maybe now it isn’t. Maybe we do still love him.

It would seem Adebayor’s main contribution to Arsenal is his destruction of the eagerness, misplaced confidence and downright cockiness of the Spurs faithful.

Maybe it’s time for us Gooners to put this rivalry with Adebayor to bed, focus on what he’s done to damage our main rivals in every way he can, and force their fans to wake up.

Adebayor’s goalscoring performance on Tuesday night could just give Gooners a welcome confidence boost and feeling of glee in the wake of our team’s failures in 2011.

It’s taken only 13 games for Adebayor to hit double figures against the White Hart Lane team, and 13 Arsenal Champions League seasons for Tottenham to manage just the one. It’s definitely unlucky for someone.

That someone... is Spurs.