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St James's Park. There are still Arsenal supporters high above us celebrating what

feels at the moment Gary in the moment like a monumental win. Yes, yeah and rightly

they should be celebrating it was absolute bedlam up there you know there's nothing

better than seeing a last minute winner unless it's against your your team. But seeing the Arsenal players at the end, obviously, celebrating and the Arsenal fans up there. That felt big. I think when the first goal went in, you can sort of smell something. And there's a lot... Big questions been asked of Arsenal in this last week, but rightly so. And he's changed today. He'll play it down,

Mikhail Artetti. You'll hear him say, we've not done anything differently. But his team selection at the start of the game is more positive. His substitutions were everything he could have thrown at the game. If you're going to come off a football pitch, make sure you've used all your weapons, make sure you've used everything in your armour and he'd done that. So even at 1-1, you know, my message I was thinking about if it stays 1-1, I would have been, to be fair, praiseworthy of Arsenal, I would have said that they've done everything that they possibly can. The manager made the right decisions, he makes the right substitutions, but it's just not quite come for them. But the reason you get the winner at the end is because of the intent. I said last week we've got to stop looking at what Mikhail Atta says or what managers say and look at what they do. So if they say they're going to go for it, they want to win the league, they think they can win the league, they believe they should win every single match, then let your substitutions tell us that, let your team selection tell us that. And I'm quite animated here tonight because a week ago, I was equally animated in a different way because I felt as though he was leaving his team short, a point whereby even the players in the dress room might have been thinking, ah, you've not played Eze, you've not played Saka, you've played Marino, you've played Trosad, you've not played Martinelli. And his own players need to be let free. He's got a brilliant squad. I think he's got the best squad in the league and maybe one of the best team in the league. I said that quietly because Liverpool are excellent. But it's only two teams can win this league. Liverpool or Arsenal in my opinion. I don't think anybody else can. And it may as well be you. If you're in that position, you've got to think of it. And I even thought, travelling up this morning, is the pressure on Michel Artetta to win the league? And what I'm, I was thinking that on the way up for three hours. I was thinking, are the Arsenal board saying to him that, you know, second is great? Because the monetary difference between first and second is very

little you're in the champions league you get a big prize money for finishing second you're consistent

the grounds are full every week the people are paying to watch but your arsenal football club

and you have to win titles and I'm absolutely adam about that because of what I experienced

in my football career

whilst battling against Arsenal year in year out and they've got to step up and today they've

stepped up when the first goal were in I said big and I thought the second one was coming I genuinely

did I thought I could feel that sort of something happening in the ground those Arsenal players

and it did happen and I think it's a big moment look Look, September, it's ridiculous. I can't even believe I'm speaking like this. Someone who's experienced around sort of, you know, being in title races and saying every single season, it doesn't start until March. But what you've got to do along the way is send out some calling cards. You've got to send out some clear messages that we're

here and we're proper. And that's what I think Arsenal have done today. So to what extent did the

Liverpool result play into the dynamic of this game? To what extent was there a weight of obligation

because of what happened at Selhurst Park yesterday? I think it added pressure on, I mean, look,

they've been under pressure anyway,

Arsenal.

If Liverpool had won, they'd have been under big pressure in a different way. But there's no doubt when you're traveling to London, like we used to do or to Newcastle, like Arsenal were yesterday, if the team that you think you're up against that can win the league, lose a game on a Saturday and you're traveling to play on a Sunday, that doesn't half give you a lift. I mean, players and managers will say all day long in interviews that, you know, we only concentrate on our own job and they'll play that straight back and tell us basically what, you know, the professionals say, but the reality of it is, that little smile on your face, that little bit of a come on, this is it, we're on, game on. I was watching the golf last night and I don't watch a bit of golf, but watching Europe and seeing that sort of element of when someone goes first and misses a putt, it's certainly a lot easier than when they put it in. And that's what Liverpool did. They missed a putt yesterday. They missed a four-footerer or eight footer Crystal Palace away is now.

And Arsenal have gone up here today to their toughest ground. This is a very difficult

place for Arsenal to win. You said the record four in the last five they've lost. So for

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