Maddison: Feeling a shift at Spurs ahead of derby week with Paul Vegas

"I don’t think you need to do a lot," Maddison told Optus Sport. "Just being present, showing up to work every day, even just being in the local area, the anticipation for a north London derby is unique compared to other matches - the media coverage, the hype from fans, social media, everything is heightened for this one."

"So, we know what it means and, obviously, having played in my first two last year, I know what it means to our fans and how in this part of the world, in north London... the population is kind of split between Tottenham and Arsenal and bragging rights within families and all that sort of stuff off the field.

"Last year I kind of learned basically how much it meant for Tottenham to play against Arsenal and what it means to actually beat your local rival, even though it's just one game and even though it's just three points, it's the same three points you get for beating another team, but what it actually means to our supporters to try to beat them and hopefully we can do that and send our fans home happy with the bragging rights."