Few sports can compete with football on a pure entertainment level, whether that's thanks to the world-class players that dazzle fans on a weekly basis, the masterful managers constantly redefining the game or the intense rivalries that can be found across the country.
Sometimes, there doesn't even need to be a rivalry between two teams for their matches to deliver thrilling encounters, and a great example is the games between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur.
These two sides have produced some brilliant spectacles in the past, and with their upcoming contest in mind, Football FanCast has created a list of the ten best games between the two sides.
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Premier League, 2016, City 1-2 Spurs
Kelechi Iheanacho 74'
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Right, so a lot of the games on this list will be in seasons in which City were fighting it out for the Premier League title, but in our first entry, it is Tottenham who came into a game with their sights firmly set on the biggest prize in England.
The Lilywhites knew that they would move within two points of first place Leicester City should they win their first game at the Etihad in over six years, which is precisely what they did, thanks to a mistake from City great Yaya Toure.
The visitors opened the scoring in the 53rd minute thanks to a Harry Kane penalty, but they would be pegged back just 21 minutes later thanks to a goal from Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho.
However, in the 83rd minute, Toure lost the ball to Erik Lamela in midfield, who passed it to Christian Eriksen, with the Dane finishing calmly past Joe Hart in goal.
The north Londoners may have eventually finished third behind Arsenal and the Foxes, but this result felt seismic at the time.
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Premier League, 2023, Spurs 1-0 City
The game between Spurs and City in February 2023 was an odd one for a couple of reasons. First, it had come just two weeks after the reverse fixture – we'll get onto that game later – and second, there were just as many Arsenal fans cheering on the Lilywhites as Tottenham fans.
The reason why their north London rivals were hoping they would win was that the Gunners had just lost to Everton and were in an incredibly tense title race with Pep Guardiola's City, meaning that any points the men in blue dropped – even against Spurs – were cheered by Arsenal fans.
That said, the Lilywhites had their own objectives to worry about, so they treated the game as if it were any other, and rightly so.
The most significant thing to come out of the game was Harry Kane's goal in the 15th minute, as it made him the outright all-time top goalscorer in the club's history, overtaking the late great Jimmy Greaves.
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However, that lead lasted precisely 60 seconds, as Bernardo Silva fired his team level in the 11th minute before Sterling got his second to tie the aggregate scores at 3-3.
Agüero added a fourth for his side in the 59th minute and gave them the lead in the overall tie, but then Spanish striker Fernando Llorente once again levelled the score with a controversial goal in the 73rd minute.
We say controversial as it looked like he had handled the ball when it came off his hip in the build-up, but we'll let you be the judge of that.
So, with the score 4-3 on the night, Spurs were set to progress thanks to the away goals rule, but there would be one more piece of drama as Sterling scored his third goal of the night in the 93rd minute to send City through – or at least he thought he had.
While Pep was running up and down the sidelines and the fans were going crazy, VAR were checking whether Aguero was offside when he passed Sterling the ball, and lo and behold, he was.
The Etihad went from pure Euphoria to stunned silence within a second, well apart from the away end, who were now going crazy themselves. It was the most extraordinary City vs Spurs game we have ever seen.