Arsenal boss Arteta says match against Liverpool is ‘really demanding’ but Gunners will ‘raise their level’

Arsenal boss Arteta says match against Liverpool is ‘really demanding’ but Gunners will ‘raise their level’

Mikel Arteta has suggested that his in-form Arsenal team “can get better” as the season goes on and he wants them to “raise their level” against Liverpool. The Gunners have been in great form at the start of this season. They are out to kick on this term after they...

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Finely balanced: Fans await Arteta’s art-and-guile versus Klopp’s clobber-a-club football stye at Emirates

Finely balanced: Fans await Arteta’s art-and-guile versus Klopp’s clobber-a-club football stye at Emirates

First takes on ninth as Jurgen Klopp’s struggling Liverpool travel to the Emirates Stadium in London to go to war with Mikel Arteta’s league-leading Arsenal. If you were told this at the beginning of the campaign, you could be forgiven for believing that it was a poor attempt at a...

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Black Panther: How immortal Jack Leslie was called up to England’s team, then dropped because he was Black

Black Panther: How immortal Jack Leslie was called up to England’s team, then dropped because he was Black

Jack Leslie’s three grand-daughters agreed the man himself might have frowned upon the delightful ceremony outside Home Park in Plymouth. “We lived with Grandad in East Ham,” explained Lesley. “It was our family home with seven of us in the house, a bit packed sometimes but it was a fun,...

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